GIFTS> QQ: Quick Quotes on Current Stuff

• "DEMOCRACY is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote"  --- Benjamin Franklin.

•   In a speech in the House of Commons on 11 November 1947, Winston Churchill said:
  "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

•  "Redistribution of wealth is essential for true democracy"  --- Dolores Huerta, Leftist activist and  socialist who coined the phrase, "si, se puede" ("yes, we can").  She was given the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, at the White House on 29 May 2012. This helps explain the Obama agenda as given to Joe the Plumber in Ohio before the 2008 election.

• "The welfare of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind"  --- Marquis de Lafayette.  

•  "The Constitution is not an instrument for the Government to restrain the People!  It is an instrument for the People to restrain the Government --- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests" --- Patrick Henry.

• "It is error alone which needs the support of Government.  Truth can stand by itself"  --- Thomas Jefferson, 1781.

• "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily"  --- George Washington, 31 July 1795.

• "Why are you fighting so hard against the Germans?" asked Lady Astor.  "If we stop, you'll find out," replied Winston Churchill.

• Ronald Reagan's definition of compromise: "We win, they lose."

• "'Do not murder.' If people lived by this commandment alone, the world would enter a heavenly state. At the same time, the commandment has been widely misunderstood.  The Hebrew original [in the Ten Commandments] prohibits murder, not killing. By mistranslating the Hebrew as 'Do not kill,' too many modern Westerners have been taught that pacifism is moral and noble. It is neither. It is an accessory to murder, since it prevents pacifists from doing the only thing that stops mass murder---killing the murderers.  The Nazi death camps were liberated by soldiers whose job was to kill murderers, not by pacifists or 'peace-activists'" --- Dennis Prager, 17 August 2011.

• "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse" --- John Stuart Mill. These views may seem controversial, but not to warriors in the Book of Mormon, nor to Nephi.

• "If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.  If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel" --- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

• "I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you" --- Andy Rooney.

• "VEGETARIAN: that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'" --- Andy Rooney.