Friday, July 20, 2012

Friday Quotes XXIX (Oh no, not again)

I wanted to be a jedi! ~ Ned - Pushing Daisies This is one of the best battle cries ever! I laughed so hard last night.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Master and Saviour of us all, stands not for peace at any price, but for righteousness at any cost. ~ Bishop Manning

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. ~Thomas Jefferson

It makes me feel like Ron Paul, mayor of crazy town ~ Glenn Beck

They think they can holler, "The bogeyman's coming!" every four years, and conservatives will get on board. ~ Richard Viguerie

I'm rather jealous of that power...I don't know on what basis we can allow some international court to decide what is the responsibility of this court, which is the meaning of the United States law. ~ Justice Scalia on the World Court dictating US law

Coalitions spawned by religious movements are more ideological than partisan. ~ Robert William Fogel

Let's start by opening our eyes and recognizing that if there ever was a monolithic "black America" -- absolutely and uniformly deprived and aggrieved, with invariant values and attitudes -- there certainly isn't one now. ~ Eugene Robinson - "The End of Black America" -Realclearpolitics - 10/09/07

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ~ C.S. Lewis

But if they had not a genius for politics; if they had not a moderation of action singularly curious where superficial speech is so violent; if they had not a regard for law, such as no great people have yet evinced, and infinitely surpassing ours, the multiplicity of authorities in the American Constitution would long ago have brought it to a bad end. ~ The English Constitution - Walter Bagehot 1867

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. ~ The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams pg 134

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