Just a running list of quotes, this being a handy place to keep them.
"Beware of any Christian movement that demands that government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion." - Rev. Benjamin Cremer
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: “there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit
America's billionaires could give everybody in the country a $3,000 stimulus check and still be richer than they were before the pandemic. - Robert Reich
"Billionaire" isn't a qualification. It's the description of a person who is hoarding more resources than they could use in 100 lifetimes while other people are starving. It's the name for a human dragon sleeping on its pile of rubies and gold.
Benjy Sarlin on Twitter: "These seats always get talked about like they're an objective Best Lawyer Award for whoever got the highest on the Lawyer test. There are 1000s of people who could do this job fine at any moment. WH's consider lots of factors starting with ideology, it's not like an MVP vote."
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.” - Mother Jones
the homeschooled college dropout Annapolis reject divorced-after-8-months driving-with-revoked-license gun-totin lawsuit millionaire cross-dressing insider trading and my very own ex Congresscritter Madison Cawthorn
“Science isn’t Burger King; you can’t just ‘have it your way. Take notes, Madame Speaker. I’m about to define what a woman is for you. “X chromosomes, no tallywhacker. It’s so simple.”
"Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid." - Robert Rohr
“Using a different colored pencil to shade the solution of each inequality in a system will make identifying the solution of the system of inequalities easier.” - Precalculus with Limits
@NobleSpencer on Twitter: "Fascinated by how the behavior of the people who took 3 pieces of pizza at the pizza party because they thought it would run out and the people who took 1 piece for the exact same reason is such a perfect encapsulation of American beliefs about community."
"When the establishment turned their guns on me, when the Uni-party coalesced to defeat an America First member very few people had my back. On a mission now to expose those who say and promise one thing yet legislate and work towards another, self-profiteering, globalist goal. The time for genteel politics as usual has come to an end. It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak members of our own party. Their days are numbered. We are coming." - Madison Cawthorn on Instagram, 5/19/2022
"...if our liberty demands the occasional massacre, then conservatives ought to make that case." - Jamelle Bouie
"Take notes, Madam Speaker. I'm about to define what a woman is for you: XX chromosomes, no tallywhacker." - Madison Cawthorn
"It is by no means enough that an officer of the Navy should be a capable mariner. He must be that, of course, but also a great deal more. He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor." - John Paul Jones
Cause everybody's got a pistol
Everybody got a .45
The philosophy seems to be
At least as near as I can see
When the other folks give up theirs, I'll give up mine. - Gil Scott-Heron
“It’s a horrible, horrible situation, and we’re not going to fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals. And my daddy fought in the second world war, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me, he said, ‘Buddy,’ he said, ‘if somebody wants to take you out, and doesn’t mind losing their life, there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.’” - Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN)
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." - Edmund Burke, speech to the electors of Bristol, November 3, 1774
"A man in the pursuit of deer, elk, and buffaloes might carry his rifle every day for forty years, and yet it would never be said of him that he had borne arms; much less could it be said that a private citizen bears arms because he has a dirk or pistol concealed under his clothes, or a spear in a cane." - Tennessee Supreme Court, 1840
“Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.” ― John Wesley
"The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.” - John Wesley
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” ― John Wesley
“Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.” ― John Wesley
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
