![]() |
The Curb
A Hippie free, "No Moose" Zone since 2001
|
"When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation."
~President Donald J. Trump
~President Donald J. Trump
Post
Jason Whitlock: What I have to stand up and defend, I’m outraged for Nancy Pelosi. This woman has taken the hard earned money she’s made from insider trading and invested it on a pair of cans at 82-years-old and comes home to find out her husband’s playing hide the hammer with a Black Lives Matter guy!
"Tell me how you do that.
I understand it . . . it’s clear in its face.
You’re accurate, but how in making the case of the freedom men have ...
what do you do othat than to sort of embarrass men into getting into the argument and voting the right way on this issue?"
~Joe Biden
I understand it . . . it’s clear in its face.
You’re accurate, but how in making the case of the freedom men have ...
what do you do othat than to sort of embarrass men into getting into the argument and voting the right way on this issue?"
~Joe Biden
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...
We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation....
We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
~Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...
We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation....
We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
~Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
~ Thomas Jefferson
President Eisenhower, in his final address to the nation, uttered words that will remain relevant for ages.
The following is a key excerpt from that speech:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.
The following is a key excerpt from that speech:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.
About
Created on: November 18, 2021
Privacy: Public, any member can post
Description: Quotable Quotes