Quotes
Allen December 15th, 2006
I keep a quote that has special meaning to me at the top of my home page. As I like to change things up a bit, I rotate those quotes from time to time.
On this page you will find my “old” quotes. They still hold special meaning to me and have not been discarded. Merely retired gracefully to live out their days on this page.
The quotes may be by others that I find particularly thought provoking or by me.
Peace is maintained at the tip of a sword, not the tip of a quill.
Allen
Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
Communism is a better form of economic distribution for a better form of man. When men are like angels, caring more for others than for themselves, Communism will work. Until then we will have to muddle along with Capitalism.
Allen from acornsfromanokie.com
To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.
Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:277
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.
Charles M. Province
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