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Quote reblogged from callowmarch with 45 notes
I hope you’re all Republicans.
Ronald Reagan before he had surgery to remove the bullet lodged near his heart, from an assassination attempt just 69 days into his presidency
I just thought this was the funniest thing
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Quote reblogged from my screams come whispering out with 50 notes
If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievment is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something and you don’t have to work for it and now you’re on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood, aggreivement and entitlement, and you still won’t have a job.
Quote reblogged from PeachPlumPear with 5 notes
He remembered Beverly best not for not for the dazed moments in love, and not for the way she had changed him when he was with her at the piano, but for the way she had looked when he left. She was standing at the back of the stars, in a harsh northern light that softened in the golden mist of her disarrayed hair. She looked at him with unmatchable simplicity. Her expression said nothing, reflected nothing; in it was no ambition for him, no snare, no plan. Not even affection. Perhaps she was too tired to do anytihg but gaze at him without a thought. There were no barriers between them, and he would always remember her standing alone at the foot of the stairs, about to ascend into the cold crest of light which broke like a surf against her hair. That was Beverly.
Quote reblogged from Intellectual Takeout with 5 notes
The State is not founded on selfishness. It cannot maintain itself by the offer of material rewards. It is the opportunity for service. There has of late been held out the hope that government could by legislation remove from the individual the need of effort. The managers of industries have seemed to think that their difficulties could be removed and prosperity ensured by changing the laws. The employee has been led to believe that his condition could be made easy by the same method. When industries can be carried on without any struggle, their results will be worthless, and when wages can be secured without any effort they will have no purchasing value.
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We live under the fairest government on earth. But it is not self-sustaining. Nor is that all. There are selfishness and injustice and evil in the world. More than that, these forces are never at rest. Some desire to use the process of government for their own ends. Some desire to destroy the authority of government altogether. Our institutions are predicated on the rights and the corresponding duties, on the worth, of the individual. It is to him that we must look for safety. We may need new charters, new constitutions and new laws at times. We must always have an alert and interested citizenship. we have no dependence but the individual. … Laws do not make reforms, reforms make laws. We cannot look to government. We must look to ourselves. … There will come out of government exactly what is put into it. Society gets about what it deserves. … Destiny is in you.” - Calvin Coolidge, ‘On the Nature of Politics’
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The modern Liberal (Leftist/Progressive) cannot understand this. Their brains have been kidnapped by their hearts, and their selfishness.
Quote reblogged from Our Presidents with 61 notes
Honey, I forgot to duck.
Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan, shortly before emergency surgery for a gunshot wound to the chest.
George Washington University Hospital, D.C. March 30, 1981.
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Quote reblogged from Intellectual Takeout with 5 notes
The State is not founded on selfishness. It cannot maintain itself by the offer of material rewards. It is the opportunity for service. There has of late been held out the hope that government could by legislation remove from the individual the need of effort. The managers of industries have seemed to think that their difficulties could be removed and prosperity ensured by changing the laws. The employee has been led to believe that his condition could be made easy by the same method. When industries can be carried on without any struggle, their results will be worthless, and when wages can be secured without any effort they will have no purchasing value.
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We live under the fairest government on earth. But it is not self-sustaining. Nor is that all. There are selfishness and injustice and evil in the world. More than that, these forces are never at rest. Some desire to use the process of government for their own ends. Some desire to destroy the authority of government altogether. Our institutions are predicated on the rights and the corresponding duties, on the worth, of the individual. It is to him that we must look for safety. We may need new charters, new constitutions and new laws at times. We must always have an alert and interested citizenship. we have no dependence but the individual. … Laws do not make reforms, reforms make laws. We cannot look to government. We must look to ourselves. … There will come out of government exactly what is put into it. Society gets about what it deserves. … Destiny is in you.” - Calvin Coolidge, ‘On the Nature of Politics’
(via intellectualtakeout)Quote reblogged from To Dream is Bliss with 11 notes
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Quote reblogged from my screams come whispering out with 7 notes
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. … There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
Quote reblogged from my screams come whispering out with 17 notes
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Quote reblogged from Posts in the Attic with 1 note
Only a creature with a soul could have had eyes so expressive and so understanding.
Quote reblogged from Something Clever? No, Never. with 10 notes
Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.
Quote reblogged from An Aspiring Gentleman with 6 notes
Higher achieving groups — whether classes, races, or whatever — are often blamed for the failure of other groups to achieve. Politicians and intellectuals, especially, tend to conceive of social questions in terms that allow them to take on the role of being on the side of the angels against the forces of evil.
This can be a huge disservice to those individuals and groups who are lagging behind, for it leads them to focus on a sense of grievance and victimhood, rather than on how they can lift themselves up instead of trying to pull other people down.
Again, this is a worldwide phenomenon — a sad commentary on the downside of the brotherhood of man.
Quote reblogged from Run Baby Run
You have made one man (me) the most happy man in the world for 29 years.
Quote reblogged from you can't take the sky from me with 20 notes
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
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