Quote 100
September 7th, 2007 by
Senior Editor: Jeff
Many of you may have noticed the quotes that appear in the upper right-hand corner of our homepage. Well, your senior editor just added quote #100. That’s right, we have compiled 100 statements from the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Dennis Miller, Matt Groening, Thomas Sowell, Ludwig Von Mises, and more. Feel free to refresh the homepage to see more (and add to our hit count. Does that count as more hits? I have no clue, and will have to check with our web guru. I’m guessing the Einsteins at Google have a figured out a way to track that. Who knows, maybe they have figured it out and don’t just so people can waste their lives furiously refreshing their own web pages to drive up their numbers. Google is truly the embodiment of evil.) Any how, the 100th quote is from John Adams, and is a good one:
Be not intimidated… nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
Why don’t people talk like that any more? Hell, if someone busted open the door of the bar and said
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. [Samuel Adams. Brewer. Patriot.]
I’d down my beer, pick up a musket, and follow him into 8 lb. canon fire. Sigh.
Maybe I’ll start going through some of them and adding my own comments: what they mean to me, why it was added?
Admin “Web Guru” Note: Refreshing increases pages views but does not effect visitor “hit” count nor incur the favor or wrath of the great god Google.
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