From cate3@netcom.com Thu Oct 5 09:46:15 1995 From: cate3@netcom.com Subject: Life F.3 To: jwry.dli@netcom.com Reply-to: cate3@netcom.com Date: 31 Aug 94 08:48:47 PDT (Wednesday) Subject: Life F.3 ------------------------------------------------------------ : Selection of quotes from an article posted to: alt.quotations by: sbsm_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Senator Stu Bushman) ]From Senator Bushman: "The large selection of quotes were gathered by Adam Meyerson, Editor at Policy Review, a conservative magazine. They claim that Justin Kaplan, editor of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" has been political in which quotes he includes in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" and has not included the really good quotes. So Policy Review built a sampling of conservative quotations from the past 50 years." [This selection was made with Senator Bushman's permission.] William J. Bennett: We must develop a fair appreciation for the real strengths and limitations of government effort on behalf of children. Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will. [University of Notre Dame, October, 1990] ------------------------------ Allan Bloom: The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth. [The Closing of the American Mind] ------------------------------ Robert Bork: The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for. [Opening statement at hearings to become associate justice of the Supreme Court, 1987] ------------------------------ William F. Buckley Jr.: How can the modern relativist exercise tolerance if he doesn't believe in anything to begin with? It is not hard to exhibit toleration toward a point of view if you have no point of view of your own with which that point of view conflicts. [Up From Liberalism] ------------------------------ William F. Buckley Jr.: Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness; you cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab of paint to a thousand painters. [Up From Liberalism] ------------------------------ William F. Buckley Jr.: I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. [Rumbles] ------------------------------ William F. Buckley Jr.: The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats. [National Review, August 7, 1965] ------------------------------ William F. Buckley Jr.: The state is a divine institution. Without it we have anarchy, and the lawlessness of anarchy is counter to the natural law: so we abjure all political theories which view the state as inherently and necessarily evil. But it is the state which has been in history the principal instrument of abuse of the people, and so it is central to the conservatives' program to keep the state from accumulating any but the most necessary powers. [The Catholic] ------------------------------ Everett M. Dirksen: You spend a billion here and a billion there. Sooner or later it adds up to real money. [Attributed] ------------------------------ Albert Einstein: Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. [Out Of My Later Years, 1950] ------------------------------ Dwight D. Eisenhower: Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states. [Speech to the NGC, Cleveland, Ohio, June 8, 1964] ------------------------------ Milton Friedman: Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. [favorite saying] ------------------------------ Milton Friedman: Inflation is taxation without legislation. [Comment on President Carter's plan to raise taxes to reduce inflation, 1979] ------------------------------ Barry Goldwater: I will offer a choice, not an echo. [January 3, 1964] ------------------------------ Vaclav Havel: The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge,noisy, and stinking machine. [New Year's address to the Czech and Slovak people, 1990] ------------------------------ Friedrich Hayek: The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good. [The Constitution of Liberty, 1960] ------------------------------ Friedrich Hayek: Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable. [The Constitution of Liberty, 1960] ------------------------------ Friedrich Hayek: The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. [The Road to Serfdom] ------------------------------ Sidney Hook: I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. [Out of Step] ------------------------------ Sidney Hook: Those who say life is worth living at any cost have already written for themselves an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person they will not betray to stay alive. [Attributed] ------------------------------ John F. Kennedy: An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. [New York, December 14, 1962] ------------------------------ Jeane Kirkpatrick: When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first. [Speech at the 1984 Republican Convention] ------------------------------ Irving Kristol: [To believe that] no one was ever corrupted by a book, you almost have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or play, or a movie).... No one, not even a university professor, really believes that. [Reflections of a Neo-Conservative] ------------------------------ Irving Kristol: It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector. ["Comments on Prop 13," Wall Street Journal, 1978] ------------------------------ Charles M. Lichenstein: We will put no impediment in your way, and we will be down at the dock bidding you a fond farewell as you sail off into the sunset. [Reply to a proposal to move the United Nations from New York City, September 19, 1983] ------------------------------ Rush Limbaugh: I have come up with a new national symbol for the United States. I think we need to junk the eagle and come up with a symbol that is more appropriate for the kind of government we have today. We need to replace the eagle with a huge sow that has a lot of nipples and a bunch of fat little piglets hanging on them, all trying to suckle as much nourishment from them as possible. [The Way Things Ought to Be] ------------------------------ Clare Booth Luce: I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether. [Time, February 14, 1964] ------------------------------ Douglas MacArthur: By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. [Reminiscences] ------------------------------ Frank Meyer: Unless men are free to be vicious they cannot be virtuous. [In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Manifesto] ------------------------------ It [government] cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies. [Los Angeles Times, February 15, 1969] ------------------------------ Somehow Liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what Conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good. [New York Post, May 14, 1969] ------------------------------ The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. [New York Times, March 2, 1976] ------------------------------ P. J. O'Rourke: Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. [Parliament of Whores] ------------------------------ P. J. O'Rourke: There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. [Speech to the Cato Institute, 1993] ------------------------------ Octavio Paz: If there is one profoundly reactionary sector in Latin America, it is the leftist intellectuals. They are a people without memory. I have never heard one of them admit he made a mistake. Marxism has become an intellectual vice. It is the superstition of the entire century [Quoted by Alan Riding, New York Times, May 3, 1979] ------------------------------ Pope John Paul II: There exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources. [Centesimus Annus] ------------------------------ Pope John Paul II: Besides the earth, man's principal resource is man himself. [Centesimus Annus] ------------------------------ Colin Powell: I certainly agree that we should not go around saying we are the world's policemen. But guess who gets called when someone needs a cop? [New York Times, August 17, 1990] ------------------------------ Lewis F. Powell Jr.: The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal. [University of California v. Bakke, 1978] ------------------------------ Ayn Rand: If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose -- because it contains all the others -- the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity -- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted, or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. [Atlas Shrugged] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. [Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1970] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: This Administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy. [First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases. [Commenting on Congress and the federal budget, 1981] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: Please tell me you're Republicans. [To surgeons as he entered the operating room, March 30, 1981] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. [Address to the National Alliance of Business, October 5, 1981] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. [Address to National Association of Realtors, March 28, 1982] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder. [Address to the University of South Carolina, Columbia, September 20, 1983] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulateit. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. [Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business, August 15, 1986] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist. [February 11, 1988] ------------------------------ Ronald Wilson Reagan: Republicans believe every day is 4th of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15. [Attributed] ------------------------------ Norman Schwartzkopf: As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational art nor is he a tactician nor is he a general nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man. [Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 27, 1991] ------------------------------ Norman Schwartzkopf: I don't consider myself dovish. And I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlish -- that is, wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war; that once you're committed to war, then ferocious enough to do whatever is necessary to get it over as quickly as possible in victory. [Interview in the New York Times, November 1, 1990] ------------------------------ Thomas Sowell: Live people are being sacrificed because of what dead people did. [New York Times, July 1, 1990, regarding affirmative action and reverse discrimination] ------------------------------ Potter Stewart: The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less than the right to speak out or the right to travel, is, in truth, a "personal right." [Lynch vs. HFC, 1972] ------------------------------ Margaret Thatcher: They have the usual socialist disease; they have run out of other people's money. [Speech to a Conservative Party Conference, October 10, 1975] ------------------------------ Richard Weaver: Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial. Modern social and corporate organization makes independence an expensive thing; in fact, it may make common integrity a prohibitive luxury for the ordinary man. [Ideas Have Consequences] ------------------------------ George Will: The Cold War is over and the University of Chicago won it. 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