INSIGHT

“The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.” —Elmer Davis

“What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.” —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.” —G. K. Chesterton

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.” —Voltaire

“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life—unless I have to buy something.” —Jackie Mason

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of ‘emergency’. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And ‘emergency’ became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.” —Herbert Hoover

UPRIGHT
“To begin something and be unable to stick with it to the finish is far more damaging to your reputation than if you’d never begun it in the first place. Nitwit Democrats think anything that can be passed off as a failure in Iraq will somehow diminish only Bush and the neocons. In reality—a concept with which Democrats seem only dimly acquainted—it would diminish the nation, and all but certainly end the American moment.” —Mark Steyn

“It’s nevertheless still true that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, it’s still true that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and it’s still true that Ronald Reagan was right when he warned us to ‘trust, but verify’.” —Wesley Pruden

“The fact remains that young Middle Eastern males have committed a disproportionate amount of violent terror attacks in recent years. Accordingly, it is simply a waste of resources to subject all airline passengers, from grandmothers to toddlers, to equal scrutiny, while refusing to spend more time investigating passengers who come from the group from which most terrorists spring nowadays.” —Robert Spencer ++ “Profiling isn’t aimed at demonizing Muslims; it’s aimed at saving lives, including Muslims.” —Kathleen Parker

“Unless we learn to see our enemies for who they are, we cannot hope to win this war. We’ve got to stop treating our own government as the enemy. We have to quit worrying about whether the rest of the world will love us when we take actions to protect ourselves. We have to give up the illusion that if we just retreat from the world or abandon Israel the Islamist fanatics will leave us alone.” —Linda Chavez

“Here’s my credo. There are no good guns, there are no bad guns. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone, except bad people.” —Charlton Heston