The U.S. Presidents -Greatest Quotes

In Honor of President's Day today we offer some of the greatest inspirational quotes from American Presidents.

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. "
George Washington (1789–1797)





"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
John Adams (1797–1801)

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be...I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)



"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
James Madison (1809–1817)


"National honor is a national property of the highest value."
James Monroe (1817–1825)

"America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government." John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)

“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining...and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away…."
- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, 1837


"There is a power in public opinion in this country—and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers—which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."
Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)

"A decent and manly examination of the acts of the Government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged."
William Henry Harrison (1841) (Harrison resigned from the army in 1814. He had an obscure career in politics ending up 20 years later as a county recorder in Ohio. He was nominated for president in 1835 and billed as a military hero whom the conservatives of the day hoped to control, he ran surprisingly well against Van Buren in 1836 and defeated Van Buren in the following election. He caught pneumonia and died in Washington on April 4, 1841, a mere month after his inauguration. Harrison was the first president to die in office.)

"Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race."
John Tyler (1841–1845)

"No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have
any leisure."
James Knox Polk (1845–1849)

"For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory. . ."
Zachary Taylor (1849–1850 )

"The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing
to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not fit
for public trust."
Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)

"The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution."
Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)

"The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
James Buchanan (1857–1861)

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)


"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
Ulysses Simpson Grant (1869–1877)


"He serves his party best who serves the country best."
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877–1881)

"We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government."
James Abram Garfield (1881) ( The Garfield administration had barely started when he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed republican office seeker, in Washington on July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, N.J., on Sept. 19.)

"Good ballplayers make good citizens."
Chester Alan Arthur (1881–1885)

"A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out." Stephen Grover Cleveland (1885–1889)

"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)

"Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . ."
William McKinley (1897–1901)

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)



"Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . ."
William Howard Taft (1909–1913) (I Suppose the SCOTUS decision that eminent domain included corporate interests overriding citizens ownership rights disagrees no?)

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers."
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)

"Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little."
Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921–1923)

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
John Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)

"Prosperity is just around the corner."
Herbert Clark Hoover (1929–1933)



"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933–1945)



"We need not fear the expression of ideas—we do need to fear their suppression."
Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1953–1961)

"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961–1963)


"If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves."
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963–1969)

" Solutions are not the answer. "
Richard Milhous Nixon (1969–1974)




"Truth is the glue that holds governments together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go."
Gerald Rudolph Ford (1974–1977)


"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."
James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977–1981)


"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981–1989)



"I want a kinder, gentler nation."
George Herbert Walker Bush (1989–1993)

"There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America."
William Jefferson Clinton (1993–2001)


"I have opinions of my own-strong opinions-but I don't always agree with them."
George Walker Bush (2001–2008)





President Bush Called Former President Clinton one afternoon.
"Hello, Bill? It's Dubya. Say, I've been meanin' ta ask ya sumthin'. How did you do so well with the ladies when you were president?"
"I'll tell ya, George. The trick is to dazzle them with charm and intelligent conversation."
"Yeah, but what can I do?" asked Bush.
Clinton paused. "Well, George, if all else fails, try puttin' a potato down your pants. That works every time."
The next week, Bush called Clinton again.
"Bill? Dubya. Laura was in Crawford over the weekend and I got to go stag to the embassy ball. I tried the potato trick, but all the ladies kept their distance."
"I know, I saw the ball on C-SPAN," laughed Clinton. "Next time, try puttin' the potato down the front of your pants."

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. " - President Barrack Obama



Happy President's Day Everyone!

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Gimme Dat Old Time Religion

Give me that old time religion
Tis the old time religion,
Tis the old time religion,
And it's good enough for me.

It was good for our mothers.
It was good for our mothers.
It was good for our mothers.
And it's good enough for me.



It has saved our fathers.
It has saved our fathers.
It has saved our fathers.
And it's good enough for me.


It will do when I am dying.
It will do when I am dying.
It will do when I am dying.
And it's good enough for me......

Give me that old time religion
Tis the old time religion,
Tis the old time religion,
And it's good enough for me.

It will take us all to heaven.
It will take us all to heaven.
It will take us all to heaven.
And it's good enough for me.......

When the legality of torture began being discussed here in the U.S.
I wondered where the religious organizations objections were.
It seemed to me they would be aghast at such practices,
but a little perusal of history gave reason for pause.
And the deafening silence.
As we hear the cries of unfairness today,
the alleged war against Christmas,
the notion that Christians in particular are persecuted
by church -state separation issues,
that science is the devil,
or that religion belongs in government
or science classrooms - let's have a look at how,
in days before the age of enlightenment
religious discrepancies were handled.

Heretic’s fork
Resistance is futile.
One end of this device was pushed under the chin, the other into the sternum,
with the strap securing this torture tool to the victim’s neck.
Immobilized and in great pain,
the victim will have to somehow speak the Latin word
“abiuro” (I recant),
or they end up being hanged or burned at the stake.

"Love one another." John 4:7-8, 4:16

As soon as Christianity had achieved ascendancy in the 4th century C.E., torture to aid "education" of theological positions was widely used, particularly against women, who "had their breasts crushed or scorched," were beaten with thorn clubs, and were compelled to sit on heated iron plates (McCabe, A Rationalist Encyclopaedia, 1948, pp. 587-89).
Torture leading to death was practiced on increasing hordes of victims as the centuries passed, culminating in the condemnation of 20,000 women by Benedict Carpzov, a Leipzig professor in the 17th century. The Spanish Inquisition added hundreds of thousands to the total, in tortures detailed in George William Foote and Joseph Mazzini Wheeler's Crimes of Christianity, and Eugene Montague Macdonald's History of the Inquisition.


God will "smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion" and "will discover their secret parts" since he doesn't like the way they dress and walk. Isaiah 3:16-17


Breast Ripper
Women condemned as heretics, or blasphemers had their breasts ripped out using this device.


Gimme Dat Ol Time Religion Boy! Real nice.
If you can't win them over by reasoned argument, and baffling them with bull ain't cutting the mustard, well we have ways of making you conform.
In the Old Testament,
after God takes away the women's jewelry and perfume, "discovers their secret parts," and makes them all bald and stinking, he'll kill their husbands. Women will then become so desperate that "seven women will take hold of one man, saying ... let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach." Isaiah 4:1
I guess there was some inspiration for torture there...

Crocodile Shears
Of course torture wasn't limited to females, though it was easy to accuse them of being witches.
And apparently a simple matter to determine their guilt. Throwing them in the water and if they float they are guilty of being witches, of course if they drowned they were innocent but what the hell, at least they weren't tortured wrongfully.
These Shears were used on men.
Now imagine having a hot date with this device,
which is actually an iron pincer with semi-cylindrical blades
that form a long narrow tube when closed together.
Teeth or spikes lined the inside of the blades,
which are first heated until red-hot before being clamped on the victim’s penis.
When his sex organ is “cooked” enough, it is then torn out from his body.
Hot dogs anyone?

The Lead Sprinkler

This tool, a holy water sprinkler re-design, was filled with either molten lead, tar, boiling oil or boiling water, then used to bless its victims by dripping its contents on their stomach, back and other body parts. Confess or we gouge out your eyeball!

Was this "persuasion" confined to Europe?
In the Colonies, Massachusetts imposed the death penalty on Nov. 4, 1646, for anyone denying the divine inspiration of the bible.
In 1692, deaf octogenarian Giles Cory, accused of witchcraft was crushed to death because he could not understand questions asked him by puritan leadership. Twenty-one other accused witches were hanged or died in prison in Salem, Mass., where two centuries later the founder of Christian Science, Mary Ann Morse Baker Glover Patterson Eddy, brought up one of her disaffected followers on yet another charge of witchcraft, according to her biographers Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine.

A dozen years later, various physical mutilations were prescribed for Quakers who would not desist from preaching. It was not an idle threat: on Oct. 27, 1659, the first in a series of Quakers was hanged on Boston Common for violating that law.

So much for religious freedom. It appears the atheists and deists who eloquently installed religious freedom in the Constitution saved these pious people from dogmatic extermination of each other.

The Pear

Used on alleged sodomites, adulterers, and those accused of incest, heresy, blasphemy or sexual union with Satan (Really?) in medieval Europe. This intricately-decorated device inserted into the mouth, rectum or vagina guaranteed swift salvation . A screw mechanism then makes its pointed “leaves” expand while inside any of those orifices, resulting in severe internal mutilation.

These folks perhaps overlooked Lev.19:18: "Love thy neighbor as thyself." (Either that or they were REALLY into some strange sadomasochism.) They also seemed to have forgotten "Blessed are the merciful" in Mathew 5:7.


Prayer Shackles

One way to convert those atheists and heretics!


The Rack

An always popular retreat for the dissident and the skeptic alike.
This early attempt at faith chiropractics was designed to dislocate every single joint in the body. Tied across the device’s board by the ankles and wrists, the victim’s body is then pulled in opposite directions by turning rollers at either end of the board.

"Live peaceably with all men." Romans 12:18


The Catherine Wheel

The convertee is tied to the side of the wheel, then gets every bone in his body shattered one by one by an executioner using a hammer or an iron bar. Victims of this form of torture often took hours, or even days to die. Some were fortunate enough to be granted “mercy”
( fatal blows to the chest or stomach).

"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice." Hosea 6:6

Iron Maiden

Not the metal band. The interior of this device is lined with strategically-placed sharp objects that is intended to torture an infidel or freethinker unlucky enough to be put inside it.
These spikes impaled the victim in the eyes, the chest and the back, but usually missed vital organs, so as to leave the victim bleeding profusely and in great pain but still alive for a while anyway.

God will not forgive us unless we shed the blood of some innocent creature!
Hebrews 9:13-14, 22


The Judas Chair

The Judas Chair, also known as the Judas Cradle.
Non believers were hoisted up by rope or chain and then made to sit on the tip of the pyramid shaped device. You get the point?
"He that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more." Job 7:7-9

Give me that old time religion
Tis the old time religion,
Tis the old time religion,
And it's good enough for me.

No Thank you.

What Does The Public Think About Impeachment?

I wonder if the public decided if Bush and Cheney should be impeached if it would differ from Congressional opinion. Let's find out with a poll shall we? Do you believe these men may have committed misdemeanors or high crimes while in office? Remember impeachment is an investigation not a verdict.

Do you believe Cheney and/or Bush merit impeachment hearings?

Yes, their conduct is suspicious, look into it. No, they are above suspicion and above the law. results »

BIZARRE XMAS PHOTOS

HAPPY THANKSGIVOWEENOMASAs commercial concerns now start the holiday consuming season in August,

it's high time the already homogenized holidays be lumped together into one mass season long excuse to bolster retailers bottom line.


DREAMING OF A REICH XMAS?

These photos are very strange indeed, they are historical pictures of Nazis celebrating Xmas.



Oh Little Town Of Dachau???

Nazi guards appear to be opening gifts outside a concentration camp.


ROVE, ER I MEAN GOEBELS CELEBRATES XMAS
Here is a picture of Goebbels at a function where 500 gifts were given to Berlin children in 1936.

In their country, at this time this would have been considered a very upstanding patriotic family. Today the image conjures up confusion, anger, and sadness.
How could these people celebrate a holiday devoted to the birth of the Prince of Peace, with a photo of Hitler prominently peering through in the background? You see they too bought into the big lie that killing was OK under the guise of patriotism.


I SAW 3 U-BOATS

Young men conned into serving Fascism aboard a U boat.
Were they too doing their patriotic duty?
I keep seeing Ollie North testifying before congress about the Iran Contra drugs and weapons investigation. Every answer was "God and Country" regardless of the question.
Letters sent by Oliver North to John Poindexter show the U.S. sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of hostages by Hezbollah. What's even worse, the deal was set up through then candidate George Bush I's covert connections before the election in an effort to disgrace the POTUS Jimmy Carter. It is also noteworthy that the Contras did not receive all of their finances from arms sales, but also through drug trafficking of which the US was found to be at minimum "aware" of.

CHILDREN SANTA AND SWASTIKAS

Nothing quite says Xmas like angels with crosses on crowns carrying swastikas on sticks while an eight foot Santa peers out into the crowd of children and storm troopers.
Egg nog anyone? (make mine a double.)



UNHOLY NIGHT

Oh Tannenbaum....

YOU BETTER WATCH OUT, YOU BETTER NOT CRY...

Apparently Der Fuhrer was on Santa's list on this Xmas.
He looks eager to receive his present too.



BLOODY OLD ST. NICK?
Hitler is 2nd from the left in this photo.


DECK THE HALLS IN AN EFFICIENT ORDERLY MANNER
I thought this photo was very telling.
The expressions on the parents says much.


This is all much too creepy, lets lighten up a bit.

THE THEME OF THIS POST IS APPARENTLY
MONSTERS CELEBRATING XMAS....

WELL , THE TITLE IS BIZARRE XMAS PICTURES!


HAVE YOURSELF A CREEPY RAELIAN XMAS....

I GUESS HE POUTED...


The Scariest Weird Xmas Photo OF ALL!

aghhhhh!!!!!









Bon Appetite!



Happy Holidaze to all!!! ...Hic!

Cheney Declares Himself To Be A New Species

In his continuing efforts to avoid legislative branch oversight, Dick Cheney announced today that he is not a member of the human race and therefore not subject to laws that might apply to humans. Cheney’s Chief of Staff, Lumpy Fartsworth, asserted yesterday that the Vice President will not release any classified documents because he is, in fact, a new species unrelated to to Homo sapiens. "Mr. Cheney has made it quite clear he is not a member of any noun that begins with the prefix homo!" declared Fartsworth from the behind a stall in the Senate Men's Room while tapping his feet vigorously.

One year ago Mr. Cheney had his own private stall built in the Senate by KBR under a no bid contract. It is called the Stall of Justice and has a defribulator and personal waterboarding device built right in to the toilet itself. This ‘Stall of Justice’ or SOJ will act as America’s K-Y Jelly, keeping the republican thrust of freedom from tearing and bleeding. Just like Guantanamo, the SOJ operates well outside of both US and Jedi jurisdiction. Cheney's Stall also features amenities like encrypted e-mail, a cloned private army, a Viagra dispenser, mulitple big screen TVs tied in to surveillance cameras hidden in all citizens homes under arcane provisions of the patriot ax, a podium, as well as a modest Lipitor factory.

In this strange press conference, Mr. Cheney waddled into the stall and hopped onto the commode which was located behind a podium. He introduced himself as “Imperial Commander of the Death Star, er, I mean Stall of Justice, and still the Shah of Iraq , the most magical place in the whole, wide world.” Mr. Cheney then held up one of his own feces and drew a picture of George Will with it on the wall.


“From this day forward, you may call me Master." He stopped abruptly and tapped his feet under an adjacent stall. "I have dismembered the terrorist Democrats and hid their various body parts and organs in barrels of oil, the lucky citizen who finds Nancy Pelosi's head will win an all expense paid trip to Iraq with per diem and meals provided by MacHalliburton and an autographed copy of Mein Kampf!" Cheney then left the building and disappeared into the Vice Presidential limo, "Ambulance Two" with Batman in hot pursuit.

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