"Maybe
the prophets wanted the rich to invite the poor into their homes, maybe
they wanted the poor to be befriended and supported by gentle arms of
friends. Maybe friendliness. But at least justice, at least the rights
of the poor respected." - Dr. Lewis Smedes (1921-2002)
"It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty
God for one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will
be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you
shall see a long forever, a boundless duration before you which will
swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your souls, and you will absolutely
despair of ever having any deliverances, any end, any mitigation, any
rest at all; and you will know certainly that you must wear out long
ages, millions and millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with
this Almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when
many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know
that it is all but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will
indeed be infinite." - Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the
same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small
there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big
staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover
story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk
about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher
Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff (as
quoted in Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein)
"Boundaries
are a "litmus test" for the quality of our relationships...So what does
Debbie, whose husband is an avowed "boundary buster," do? Will her
husband carry out his threat to walk out on her? He might. We can't
control the other person. But if the only thing keeping Debbie's husband
at home is her total compliance, is this a marriage at all?" Boundaries, by Cloud & Townsend
"Having passed historic legislation to make American factories the
fairest, cleanest, safest and finest place on earth for industrial
workers, liberals then turn around and backed free trade agreements that
say to U.S. manufacturers: "If you want to get out from under all these
liberal laws, if you want to be rid of those demanding U.S. workers and
unions, shut down your plant here, lay off your U.S. workers, move to
China, make your goods there, and export them, free of charge, back to the USA.
Pocket all the money you save and put it into executive bonuses and
laugh at us liberals on the slopes of Teluride and Vail." Day of Reckoning - How Hubris, Ideology and Greed Are Tearing America Apart, by Patrick Buchanan
"James
Madison, author of our Bill of Rights, boasted shortly after the
American Revolution that he could make $257 annually on each slave he
owned, and was required to spend only $12 or $13 yearly on the slave's
upkeep." - With Justice for None - Destroying an American Myth, by Gerry Spence (Attorney)
"I'm against the media so taunting us with the crimes committed by
our neighbors, that we virtually hurl ourselves into the arms of the
police demanding protection they only too willingly give - provided we
adopt their view of our Bill of Rights as a pesky collection of
loopholes through which criminals are permitted to escape." With Justice for None - Destroying an American Myth, by Gerry Spence (Attorney)
'Ironically,
the same court that decreed that Dred Scott, a slave, was property, had
granted to the corporation, a non-man, the sacred rights of
citizenship...The Fourteenth Amendment provided that no state shall
'deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process
of law, nor deny any persons within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.' It was to be a shield of freedom to protect the
emancipated slave against abuses from the states. But the Fourteenth
Amendment soon became a formidable weapon used to subject both black and
white to the will of corporate America. We have not often heard that
story." With Justice for None - Destroying an American Myth, by Gerry Spence (Attorney)
