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Quote of the Week
If you want total security, go to
prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so
on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
Quote of the Week
"A politician thinks of the next
election. A statesman, of the next generation."
James
Freeman Clarke, Unitarian Minister and Abolitionist
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"If we sent
them home, there wouldn't be a home to go to."
Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), on the Senate's rejection of the
DREAM Act, which offers the children of illegal immigrants a
path to citizenship if they serve in the military or complete
two years of higher education. McClatchy papers also report
that Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) unsuccessfully sought the
arrests of several undocumented immigrant students who had
been invited to Washington to lobby for the bill.
Quote of the Week
Robert A.
Heinlein
PITY THE
NATION (After Khalil
Gibran)
Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are
silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to praise
conquerors and
acclaim the bully as hero and aims to rule the world with
force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own and
no other culture but its own.
Pity the
nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation -- oh, pity the people who allow their rights
to erode and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Quote of the Week
"Women and
cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and
get used to the idea."
Robert A.
Heinlein
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It is well
that war is so terrible, or we should get
too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee
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The 23rd Sigh
Bush is my
shepherd; I dwell in want.
He maketh
logs to be cut down in national forests.
He leadeth
trucks into the still wilderness.
He restoreth
my fears.
He leadeth
me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego's sake.
Yea, though
I walk through the valley of pollution and war, I will find no
exit, for thou art in office.
Thy tax cuts
for the rich and thy media control, they discomfort me.
Thou
preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy
religion.
Thou
anointest my head with foreign oil.
My health insurance runneth out.
Surely
megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days
of thy term,
And my
jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever Alas
Author Unknown
Quote of the Week
"Labor is
prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not
first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves
much the higher consideration."
Abraham
Lincoln
Quote of the Week
"The survival of
democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to
make realistic choices in the light of adequate information."
Aldous Huxley
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"The survival of
democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to
make realistic choices in the light of adequate information."
Aldous Huxley
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Cure thy
children’s warring madness, bend our pride to thy control;
Shame our wanton,
selfish gladness, rich in things and poor in soul.
Grant us wisdom,
Grant us courage,
Lest we miss thy
kingdom’s goal, Lest we miss thy kingdom’s goal.
The
Hymn, GOD OF GRACE AND GOD OF GLORY, Harry Emerson Fosdick,
1878 (words)
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What
these immigrants sought most of all – and what we still find reason
to defend – is religious freedom. Their basic Anabaptist beliefs
included the separation of church and state and an aversion to
violence.
Margaret Clark
Reynolds - "The Nisley Family and its
Architecture"
Quote of the Week
We gain
strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in
which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do
that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor
Roosevelt
Quote of the Week
"Any
successful elected executive knows that real results are more
important than partisan battles, and that good ideas should
take precedence over rigid adherence to any particular
political ideology."
MAYOR MICHAEL
R. BLOOMBERG of New York.
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"For most
consumers, the fact that there is no connection between
quality and cost is one of the dirty secrets of medicine."
Peter Lee, the
president of a California health insurance consortium.
Quote of the Week
“Injustice
5, Justice 4”
Headline of NY
Times lead editorial on 5/31/07. The editorial questioned the
rationale of the US Supreme Court when it denied a female
employee her civil rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964.
Quote of the Week
"As I would
not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my
idea of democracy.”
Abraham Lincoln
Sixteenth President of the United States, 1809-1865
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"They used
to give us a day--it was called International Women's Day. In
1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from
1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I
said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into
the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are."
"Women have been
trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick.
Those days are over.
Bella Abzug
Quote of the Week
"One of the
penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up
being governed by your inferiors."
Plato
Quote of the Week
"Each time a
man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a
tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million
different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a
current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance."
Robert F.
Kennedy, 1966.
Quote of the Week
"If you want
to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to
your enemies."
Moshe Dayan
Quote of the Week
"If an elective republic is to endure for any great length
of time, every elector must have sufficient information, not
only to accumulate wealth and take care of his pecuniary
concerns, but to direct wisely the Legislatures, the
Ambassadors, and the Executive of the nation...."
Thaddeus
Stevens,
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"One of the
penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you
end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato
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"The
two-party system in Kennett Square can energize the town. It
can encourage new ideas and expedite progress. Political
diversity is a good thing."
The Kennett Paper
2007
Jessie Cocks
Quote of the Week
"Working
together we can be much more effective. In politics, it's not
always the wisest or the strongest who wins. It's the most
persistent." said Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Pitts, who has
chaired the House Value Action Team since its inception.
Congressman
Joseph Pitts,
16th
Pennsylvania District
The Values
Action Team, or VAT, is a Congressional forum that allows
socially conservative congressmen to leverage their huge
mailing lists of outside groups like the Focus on the Family
in lobbying wavering fellow members on key votes.
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"Throughout
history, it has been the people who question government
leaders and policies and demand transparency who have made our
country stronger and freer. Blind allegiance is the path of
least resistance, but it's also the path that gives government
leaders free reign to abuse their power at the great expense
of the citizens, the country, and in the case of George W.
Bush, the people of Iraq."
Dianne
Herrin, West Chester, PA
Quote of the Week
"Whether
his fellow Americans understand exactly what Bush is doing or not, his
six years in office have created intense public anxiety. Much of that
anxiety can be attributed to fear of terrorism, which Bush has
exacerbated to suit his own purposes -- as well as to increasing
concern that the world is threatened by global warming, pandemic
diseases, economic insecurity, nuclear proliferation, and other perils
with which this presidency cannot begin to
cope."
Joe Conason,
"It Can Happen Here" (2007)
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"I think for us to get American
military personnel involved in a civil war inside Iraq would
literally be a quagmire.
Once we got to Baghdad, what
would we do? Who would we put in power? What kind of
government? Would it be a Sunni government, a Shia
government, a Kurdish government?
"Would it be secular, along the
lines of the Baath party? Would it be fundamentalist Islamic?"
he asked.
"I do not think the United States
wants to have U.S. military forces accept casualties and
accept responsibility of trying to govern Iraq. It makes no
sense at all."
Vice-President
Dick Cheney. After the first Persian Gulf War ended in March 1991,
Cheney -- then serving as defense secretary in the first Bush
administration -- was asked on ABC-TV why Operation Desert Storm had
not gone all the way to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
Quote of the Week
In his new job,
Rick Santorum is an employee of the Ethics and Public Policy
Center, a Washington-based think tank.
"Our mission is to
explore how the
Judeo-Christian tradition applies to public policy."
M. Edward Whelan,
President, Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington,
D.C.
Quote of the Week
"The most
effective answer to this leadership vacuum would be a new era
of political activism by ordinary citizens. The biggest, most
far-reaching changes of the past century — the labor move-ment,
the civil rights movement, the women’s movement — were not
primarily the result of elective politics, but rather the hard
work of committed citizen-activists fed up with the status
quo. It’s time for thoughtful citizens to turn off their TVs
and step into the public arena. Protest. Attend meetings.
Circulate petitions. Run for office. I suspect the public
right now is way ahead of the pol-iticians when it comes to
ideas about creating a more peaceful, more equi-table, more
intelligent society."
Bob Herbert,
New York Times columnist.
(Source: The New York Times, January 25, 2007)
Quote of the Week
"As
an independent, I am both appalled and amused by Rep. Pitts'
statement, 'Anyone who ever made a budget knows that spending
more than you take in just doesn't work.'
Republicans in the
last six years have managed to run up the largest national
debt in the history of America. A mirror should be installed
in the Congress so the Republicans can stand in front of it as
they continue to repeat the statement Pitts has made."
Robert of
West Chester
(West Chester Local Daily News column - SOUND OFF, February 5,
2007)
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