Quotes to make your day
"The high office of the president has been used to foment a plot to destroy America's freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of their plight." Pres. John F. Kennedy; in a speech at Columbia University, 1963; tens days before he was assassinated.
"If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams
"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution (as many as 64 Million Killed), it has obviously succeeded not only in producing a more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering HIGH MORALE and community purpose. The social(ist) experiment of China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history." David Rockefeller August 10, 1973 From a China Traveler (Unseen Hand pg. 217) referring to the enslavement of the Chinese under Communism
By the year 2000 we will raise our children to believe in human potential, not God. Gloria Steinam, Saturday Review of Education, Mar. 1973"One night in the winter of 1934 Marshal Voroshilov (Soviet Chief of State) was seated on my right and Marshall Budenny on my left. They had drunk a bit of vodka and both were relaxed and gay. You know, Bullitt,said Voroshilov, Budenny is the man who won the civil war without ever knowing what he was fighting about.
That's true, my motto is not proletarians of the world unite, but cavalrymen of the world unite. I don't care why I fight so long as I have a good war We laughed, and Voroshilov then said, I think the most extraordinary thing we ever did together was to capture Kiev without fighting.
There were 11,000 Czarist officers with their wives and children in Kiev, and they had more troops than we had. We never could have captured the city with fighting, so we used propaganda and told them that they would be released and allowed to go to their homes with their families and treated as well as possible.
They believed us and surrendered.
Then we shot all the men and boys and put all the women and girls into brothels for our army.
My army needed women, and I was concerned with my army's health and not with the health of those women; and it didn't make any difference anyhow, because they were all dead within 3 months. Testimony of William C. Bullitt, US Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1933-36, House Report 2189, Committee on Un-American Activities