Gerry Spence
"But the change will come only when we have slammed the system up against the wall and stared it down, and made it responsive to us. It is not unpatriotic to criticize one's country. It is essential. I think of the wife of a drunk who covers, apologize, and makes excuses for him because she loves him too much, and thereby enables him to continue in his oppression and destruction. In the same way we must stop enabling our system to continue its injustices because, we too, love it so unconditionally that we fail to demand it reform, that is, be responsible." - With Justice for None - Destroying an American Myth, by Gerry Spence (Attorney)
"Barack Obama is not the problem. We are! Abortion is. Public
schools are. A rotting pop culture is. ...Divorce and homosexual 'marriage' are. Obama has been reelected
simply because America, like any nation, will always only get the
leaders she deserves. We
told God to go to hell a long time ago, and God is now allowing us to
see what life is like without him. So lead on, Mr. Obama!" (Emphasis mine)(Source)
"You should view these politicians with the deepest contempt you can possibly imagine. What
they are doing to this country, what they are doing to our finances -
there is not a criminal in any federal prison, state prison, city or
county jail with respect to financial crimes of any sort who
collectively could have done the kind of damage that Barack Obama and
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and yes, willing, timid, gutless Republicans
have done to this country! To your future, to your children and your
grandchildren. What they are doing is with malice and with forethought."
(emphasis mine) (source)
"A
democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until the majority discover it can vote itself largess out of the
public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the
candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy
collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be
followed by a dictatorship and then a monarchy." (Source)
"If
you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but
that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your
children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do
it? Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation. Over the past
several decades, we have stolen 15 trillion dollars from future
generations so that we could enjoy a dramatically inflated level of
prosperity. Our 15 trillion dollar party has been a lot of fun, but
what we have done to our children and our grandchildren has been beyond
criminal. We ran up the greatest mountain of debt in the history of the
planet and we are sticking them with the bill. Sadly, both political
parties have been responsible for the big spending that has been going
on." (Source)
"A wicked generation is a generation of vipers, and ought to be told so." - Matthew Henry (1664-1714)
"You know...if I had to borrow 40% of the money I need to pay my bills every month,
I'd be fairly alarmed. When you come up a few bucks short at the end of
the month for necessary bills, you can cut back: get rid of the cell
phone, stop eating out, whatever. But when your monthly nut is routinely
running to almost twice what you can pay, you're kind of out of
options. It's probably time to re-examine your resistance to sleeping
outdoors and pooping outdoors, and...well, doing everything else
outdoors, because outdoors is where you're going to be living before
long." (Source)
