Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mankind are not held together by lies. Trust is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported.
—Frederick Douglass
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast.
—Abbie Hoffman
Ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
—Seneca the Younger
Bernie Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper the following on “State of the Union” last Sunday—
I hope that we will bring a strong bill to the floor of the Senate as soon as we can and let Mr. Manchin explain to the people of West Virginia why he doesn’t have the guts to stand up to the powerful special interests.
What Bernie misses is that the special interest group whose interest Joe Manchin is protecting is the voters of West Virginia—and that what he’s protecting is his constituents desire to keep their state’s sovereignty and its republican form of government as guaranteed by the Constitution. I’ll bet Joe Manchin is looking forward to explain to the people of West Virginia how he’s been standing up for their special interests.
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
—Douglas MacArthur
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
—Elon Musk
I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
—Frederick Douglass
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty and intelligence.
—Theodore Roosevelt
Il n’y a pas de politique qui vaille en dehors des réalités. No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
—Charles de Gaulle
Es gibt keine verzweifelten Lagen, es gibt nur verzweifelte Menschen. There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
—Heinz Guderian
No power can maintain itself if only hypocrites represent it.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Since the beginning of the Xiden Administration, I’ve been writing about how the Democrats would wind up failing because their unnecessary overreach would trigger a rebellion among Americans. Don Surber has a post up reviewing the Peoples’ response to their elected government. Things are beginning to become more than interesting.
Read the whole thing.
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
—Frederich Schiller
It’s being reported John Kerry has said that Joe Xiden was surprised by the French being upset with the AUKUS submarine deal which resulted in the Aussies canceling an order for French boats worth over 50 billion dollars.
The Gentle Reader may remember that one of Xiden’s selling points during the last election was his supposed expertise in foreign affairs.
It’s clear that expecting Carter’s second term was much too optimistic. Let’s pray that we still manage to avoid Buchanan’s.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called “weasel words.” When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a “weasel word” after another there is nothing left of the other.
—Theodore Roosevelt,
In bello parvis momentis magni casus intercedunt. In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
—Julius Caesar
Pretend you are member of the armed forces out on the pointy end of the spear—a pilot, paratrooper, submariner, etc.—and you found out that your senior commander had promised to give a potential enemy commander advanced warning that you were being sent on an operation against him. How might this affect you confidence in your chain of command?
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.
—James Monroe
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
—Bob Dylan
When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.
—Jordan Peterson
I wish I were wrong, but I’m not.
I understand the frustration of the actual warriors feel because of the incompetence of the the generals and admirals who are supposed to be leading them. I turned down a promotion to major and left the Army Reserve rather than continue to serve under Carter’s Pentagon crowd.
I foresee that Carter’s second term was much too optimistic an expectation for the Xiden Administration. Let’s pray that we can still avoid the likes of Buchanan’s second term.
… will very likely be difficult. The catastrophes of the the Buchanan and Carter Administrations occurred during the final years of their terms. We have not been so fortunate this time.
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
—Xenophon
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
—Bernard Montgomery