Important Quotes - A Great Nation

I apologize for the length of the following list of quotes, but I believe them to be appropriate to the state of our nation and the direction in which it is moving. The very first one is, no doubt, the most profound. The troubling aspect of it all is reading quotations from our own president and the direct contradictions he represents to this country's great history. He takes pride in making changes to long held principles upheld by the previous 43 elected presidents. Change – you betcha, we've got it like we haven't had in 236 years of freedom. It's not all the president's fault. We have been on a disastrous course for too long and he simply embodies the antithesis to the ideals of our founding fathers. Please read all the way through.


From Joseph Stalin:
-America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within



From the Communist Manifesto (Necessities for success)

-Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
-A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
-Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
-Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
-Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
-Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
-Free education for all children in public schools.



From Adolph Hitler:
-The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan
-The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
-If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
-What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
-I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.


From Karl Marx:

-History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
-The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
-The bureaucrat has the world as a mere object of his action.
-The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
-A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain.



From Hussein Obama:

-You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
-Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
-America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
-It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
-We are not at war against Islam.
-I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
-I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody
-And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
-The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
-We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
-We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
-I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
-I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
-We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.
-The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.


From Howie Irwin:

I love this country – these United States of America. I was able to serve in both the Army and the Air Force. My time spent in those organizations was not always pleasant, but despite any adversities and idealogical differences there was an underlying patriotism within me that, if necessary, I would sacrifice so much as my own life to preserve the freedoms, principles and morals so dear to the population of this Nation.
What now? How might we define any principles and morals upheld by our very own government? Sure, we can attend the churches of our choice, we can have open conversations with friends and acquaintances about our personal values, but political correctness seems to obstruct the free expression of feelings by anyone seeking political office. Special interest groups have so amassed themselves with their outspoken agendas that politicians are afraid to speak whatever they might truly stand for or believe.
How can a country with the foundations of this one have allowed a select few to prevent prayer in schools, invocations at ballgames and even the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in school? We send young men and women into foreign countries to defend the fundamentals of democracy, yet the very country for which they battle has turned from a democratic society to one frequently governed by a court system. Yes, there are provisions for our Congress to overturn decisions made by our courts that are totally contrary to the foundation of our Nation's beliefs; however, the positions of the two parties representing the people are so polarized that they refuse to work together to accomplish anything of substance for the good of all.
It appears that Joseph Stalin was prophetic in his pronouncements of collapse from within. How might someone with great wisdom define "the Republic for which it stands" as stated in the Pledge of Allegiance? For what do we stand? Shall we increase the amounts taken from those who are determined to educate themselves and work hard and give more to those who choose to allow the "government" to provide for them? As we are forced to remove any references to God from public places along with tributes representative of faith from public locations because they are "offensive" to a tiny minority, shall we not have to ultimately destroy our churches to pacify those same malcontents? Is it to be incumbent upon our society to give privilege to those who classify themselves as minority – whether defined as race, sexual preference, or gender? Shall we allow a federal government, whose powers are specifically limited in our constitution, to determine what freedoms we may exert and to control every facet of our lives despite the fact we have the alleged power to vote?
How I wish there would come a groundswell of enthusiasm to find individuals willing to espouse their true feelings, willing to run for public office and actually able to succeed in becoming elected. Stalin's predictions can be overcome. I hope that within my lifetime the ground begins to quiver from other than a quake!