UNTO THE BREACH » Quotes

‘Pay any price, bear any burden’

Chris Carter — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:45:30 +0000

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

“This much we pledge—and more.”

- John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address
January 20, 1961

Power becomes tyranny

Chris Carter — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:40:12 +0000

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

– Thomas Jefferson

The Man in the Arena

Chris Carter — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:18:26 +0000

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

Why higher education has become a problem

Chris Carter — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:21:45 +0000

“Our aim is to turn out young men as unlike their fathers as possible.”

- Woodrow Wilson, during his tenure as president of Princeton University

Regulatory Czar doesn’t like choices in media

Chris Carter — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:55:27 +0000

“A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.”

- Cass Sunstein

Howard Dean: We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution!

Chris Carter — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:04:55 +0000

“I don’t think it’s unconstitutional but I don’t care if it is or not. I think that the courts will make that decision.”

- Howard Dean – Democratic National Committee Chairman and former presidential candidate, in reference to Obamacare

Czar thinks voters are like Homer Simpson

Chris Carter — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:53:16 +0000

“Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there’s a lot that can be done to manipulate them.”

- Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, also known as Obama’s “Regulatory Czar”

Unconquerable

Chris Carter — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:57:25 +0000

“I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”

- From the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

Peace

Chris Carter — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:19:14 +0000

“If you want peace, prepare for war.”

- Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Steyn on big government

Chris Carter — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:54:05 +0000

“The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.”

- Mark Steyn in America Alone