Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Just heard this story recounted the other day on NPR…
The way I heard it, TR wanted to send the whole Fleet around the world.
Congress said no, send half the Fleet the whole way, and here’s the money to do so.
TR went ahead and sent the whole fleet half-way and then asked Congress if they’d like to bring the Fleet home or leave it on the other side of the world.
I laughed out loud when I heard that story. The man had style.
You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see that level of accusatory, probing questioning (bordering on hostile) directed at Harry Reid, John Murtha, Sandy Burger, William “I’m two-thirds Clinton” Jefferson, and the rest of that crowd of borderline (and I’m being generous here by calling it ‘borderline’) criminals.