“The water is not going to clear up until we get the pigs out of the Creek”.
“Only dead fish go with the flow”.
~ Senator John Kennedy – (R-La.)
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“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
~ Anthony Brandt
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I’m a Political Enthusiast anticipating greater participation from an awakening populace.
Hopefully more right and middle rather than left. 😉
Get involved on some level in something you know needs the spotlight of change.
Talk to the people you see every day about things you are passionate about.
Try to avoid pop-culture speak, see what happens, and be the person your cat thinks you are.
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“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 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 and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”
~ Teddy Roosevelt
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
~ Ronald Reagan
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one…”.
~ Thomas Paine
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
~ Popularly attributed to Cicero, but not traced in his works and apparently from words spoken by him in this historical novel based on his life. ~ A Pillar of Iron (1965) ch. 56 / Taylor Caldwell