I suppose I should know this, but who the hell is DDE?

I suppose I should know this, but who the hell is DDE?

 

Dwight D Eisenhower

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

 

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

 

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

 

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

 

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

 

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

 

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

 

A few of my favorites.

Dwight D Eisenhower

 

That is the first time I've ever heard of him being "acronymed." Or, perhaps more appropriately, "initialized."

That is the first time I've ever heard of him being "acronymed." Or, perhaps more appropriately, "initialized."

 

Comes from doing to many crossword puzzles. D.D.E. is a common answer to "Presidential Initials"

Another I have always liked.

 

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Comes from doing to many crossword puzzles. D.D.E. is a common answer to "Presidential Initials"

 

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Woodrow Wilson

 

I thought the second quote was interesting, in light of the picture that Glenn Beck has painted of Mr. Wilson.

I know it's a song, but I love it.

Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun. And you might meet 'em both if you show up here not welcome son.

A few from the historical figure I admire the most:

 

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

 

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

 

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

 

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

 

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"A billion here, and billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."

 

"During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected."

 

"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times."

 

"The oil can is mightier than the sword."

 

"When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies."

"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it."

 

"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."

 

-Ronald Reagan

A few from the historical figure I admire the most:

 

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

 

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

 

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

 

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

 

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

 

The last one is Einstein.

All of them are Einstein

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

 

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.