07-14 Chronicle
THE FOUNDATION: PATRIOTISM

“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.” —Benjamin Rush (http://PatriotPost.US/fqd/)

INSIGHT

“Politics, n. strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” —Ambrose Bierce

“Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger, but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.” —Sir Walter Scott

“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.” —Thomas Carlyle

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” —C.S. Lewis

“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.” —Clarence Darrow

UPRIGHT

“The fact is that the United States military answers to one commander in chief in the White House, not 535 commanders in chief on Capitol Hill.” —Vice President Dick Cheney

“The threat from radical Islamic terrorists will not vanish when President Bush leaves office, or if funds for the Iraq war are cut off in 2008.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“Why would Al Qaeda choose the past several days, just as Democrats in Congress were voting to run up a white flag and commit the United States to defeat in Iraq, to launch a bloody wave of terrorist atrocities?… The answer… is that this is how totalitarian aggressors react to faintheartedness… The smell of irresolution doesn’t satiate the totalitarians’ appetite; it makes it keener.” —Jeff Jacoby

“In Middle Eastern warfare a classic tactic has been to retreat in the face of strength, but to attack when your enemy withdraws or shows signs of weakness.” —Ralph Peters

“It has been painfully clear that Speaker Pelosi was serious only about scoring political points. Her big grin when she won a narrow vote for a non-binding resolution was grotesque against the background of a life-and-death issue. You don’t grin over a political ploy that you have pulled when men’s lives are at stake.” —Thomas Sowell

“The true American religious tradition, the one that disciplines power, subjugating it to reason, truth and, ultimately, an all-powerful God, is not a threat to liberty but its best defender.” —Judge Janice Rogers Brown

“No small concern of those who created the Constitution was the prospect of legislative tyranny, the exercise of power for illegitimate purposes carried out in the name of the majority.” —Gary McDowell