Jul

15

2007

Notable Quotes – disgrace

by Skip

Was just doing my normal run through of all the blogs / sites I try to hit every day (around 80 on various and sundry topics) and saw this over at Op-For:

Just because….

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

-Alexander Hamilton

Given how the Democrats in Congress are so hell-bent to remove our troops from Iraq and repeat the disgrace to the US and the harm to the Vietnamese and Cambodian people when the Democrats forced us to retreat from Vietnam, it fits – it just fits.

We once saw ourselves as the protectors of freedom anywhere – the first and greatest champion of liberal democratic (notice the little "d") ideals of any country in the world.  President Kennedy proclaimed "…pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any enemy…"

How far we have fallen from that lofty rhetoric…

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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