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Quietly contrarian...
Don't believe everything you think
About Me
- Gary Monro
- English patriot, conservative councillor and just one more inconsequential cog in the great state machine.
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Quotable
IT IS THE SOLDIER
It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.
CHARLES M. PROVINCE
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius, 2nd Century Roman Emporer and Philosopher
"An ounce of history is worth a pound of logic."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, American jurist, (1809 - 1894)
"An economist is someone who, when he finds something that works in practice, wonders if it will work in theory."
Wolfgang Walter Heller, economist, adviser to JFK
"Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means."
— Charles Dickens, (1812-1870) English novelist
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
Voltaire
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
"The world is formed by unreasonable men. A reasonable man looks at the world and sees how he can fit in with it. An unreasonable man looks at the world and sees how he can change it to fit in with him."
George Bernard Shaw
It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.
CHARLES M. PROVINCE
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius, 2nd Century Roman Emporer and Philosopher
"An ounce of history is worth a pound of logic."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, American jurist, (1809 - 1894)
"An economist is someone who, when he finds something that works in practice, wonders if it will work in theory."
Wolfgang Walter Heller, economist, adviser to JFK
"Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means."
— Charles Dickens, (1812-1870) English novelist
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
Voltaire
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
"The world is formed by unreasonable men. A reasonable man looks at the world and sees how he can fit in with it. An unreasonable man looks at the world and sees how he can change it to fit in with him."
George Bernard Shaw
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