We Must Look To The Past To Know The Future
I know that there are scores of people plotting to kill me, and this is not difficult to understand. After all, did we not seize power by plotting against our predecessors? However, I am far cleverer than they are. I know they are conspiring to kill me long before they actually start planning to do it. This enables me to get them before they have the faintest chance of striking at me.
-Saddam Hussein
“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words “no” or “not” employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.”
-Edmund Opitz
George Washington and James Madison were the only presidents who signed the Constitution.
“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them.”
-Jason Laumark
“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
-G.K. Chesterton
“National honor is national property of the highest value.”
-James Monroe
“The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.”
-Joseph Stalin
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
-George S. Patton
