User:LordRevan

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United States of America.

This user is from Alaska.

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This user believes in intelligent design or creationism.

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I am politically incorrect. Hence, I will use common sense and speak plainly rather than trip all over myself trying to be inoffensive.

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Balance the Force

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Supreme Duelist

This user is an unbeatable master of all lightsaber forms .

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This user loves The Lord of the Rings, both the books and the films.

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"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American." -Daniel Webster

"The Jesuits are the true authors of socialist-communism. The economic system of the Dark Ages was feudalism consisting of the few rich landowners and the many poor peasants. It was a sin to make a profit by anyone other than the feudal lords. Thus, if the world is to be returned to the Dark Ages, the Protestant middle class must be destroyed. Socialist-communism accomplishes this, having yielded its bitter fruit in both Great Britain and the United States. The great deception is that the Jews are the authors of communism. (After all, is not Zionism Jewish communism?) The facts are that the Jesuits used their Masonic Jews to introduce it in 1848 and again in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution." -Ricky Martin

"It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country, the United States of America, are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies of civil and religious liberty. They have instigated most of the wars of Europe." -marquis de La Fayette

"All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism." -B. J. Gupta

"I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth." -William F. Buckley Jr.

"A society that puts equality … ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom." -Milton Friedman

"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth." -Plato

" ...the source of Anti-Americanism, the media and education system - plus envy." -Paul Marks

"...anti-America liberals can no longer distinguish right from wrong, or evil from good. They are secular relativists living in a gray, foggy world where anything goes, even cold-blooded murder." -Gordon Bishop

"Fascism is not a unique phenomenon. It is a logical conclusion to one of the two basic conceptions of social order. If one believes that, without the guidance of government, most people are incapable of knowing their own best interests and of doing the right thing to further their interests, then he is already moving in the direction of Fascism, albeit with the best of intentions." -Thomas E. Brewton

"I just love the hypocrisy of the left and how it rears its ugly head every day and these naïve idiots are too stupid and partisan to see it. They tout the first amendment with vigor, and they preach all this supposed inclusiveness and tolerance, and they are the most intolerant bunch on the planet. Some things never change." -Mario

"We have paid dearly for idealizing the state. There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. Good intentions are no excuse for perpetual failure and growing oppression. The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose. Freedom is largely a choice between allowing people to follow their own interests or forcing them to follow the interests of politicians, bureaucrats, politicians and campaign contributors." -James Bovard, "Lost Rights", cataloguing the destruction of liberties in the USA during the Clinton years.

"They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?" -Paul Harvey

1 Personal
2 Life
3 Beliefs
4 Hobbies
5 People I Admire
6 People I Dislike
7 Favorite Star Wars Characters
8 Lightsaber Forms
9 Favorite Quotes
10 Favorite Scripture (King James Version)
11 Good Websites to Check Out

[edit] Personal

Hello, my name is Christopher Chapman, I was born in Anchorage, Alaska on June 5, 1985. I am an Inupiaq Eskimo with a tad bit of Athabaskan Indian and Japanese. I have been currently living in Washington State for the last four years. As a side note, if you have not had a chance to visit Alaska, I highly suggest you do. It is the most beautiful country that I have seen. [1]

[edit] Life

Life sucks. There is a famous quote no doubt most of you guys have heard, "Life is hard, and then you die." More and more these days, I wonder why I am on this hell called Earth. I personally have accomplished nothing of note in the nearly 21 years I have lived on this Earth. My will is strong, but my flesh is weak. I wish from day to day that I was never born, and yet if I was not born, I would probably have not caused such hilarity(or consternation) for many of these users opposite of my beliefs on wikipedia. Of course, I will probably find my niche in this world soon enough, though I wish it would come sooner.

-"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." (Mark Twain)

-"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." (Phillips Brooks)

-Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim - "Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you." (Ovid)

[edit] Beliefs

I am a strong Conservative and believer in Jesus, not a Christian. I believe in the literal translation of the Bible and that Jesus Christ was killed on the cross, was buried dead for three days, and rose on the third and is now alive and well in Heaven on Gods right hand side. I also believe in werewolves, vampires, zombies, aliens and ghosts(they are really demons), and the Occualt. I am a firm believer in the Black Pope theory and believe that the Holy Roman Catholic Church was the instigator for every major conflict and assassination since the formation of the Jesuit Order. I greatly despise the European Union and the UN and believe in the deep corruption in and of Europe. I believe in Operation Smokescreen. Operation Smokescreen is the radical liberals campaign of missinformation. I believe that liberals try to cover up anything that is a threat to their communist views; whether it be scientific evidence that supports the Bible, scientific evidence that disproves evolution, any bumbling by socialist parties. I also firmly believe that the liberals are going to be the downfall of this fair country and that is why I fight so hard against them, to get the truth out. I also believe that the term Liberal Christian is an oxymoron, and that any Christian that votes for the Democratic party and consider themselves a liberal should start reading their Bible more. I also believe that the liberals are the worst hypocrites in the world. They condem the Republican for many atrocities, while they support the butchering of unborn babies(in the Constitution is says there is the RIGHT to LIFE, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness) and the killing of the old and feeble. Another example of Liberal hypocricy and stupidty. Ohh yeah, I forgot to mention that the United Nations is run by the Illuminati, and which the founders of the Illuminati of Bavara was founded by the Jesuit order(if you didn't already know it, the Jesuit order is like the SS of the "Holy" Roman Catholic Church) Some of their activities are such as assasinations (most notable being the Kennedys and the great President Lincon), instigating wars (one of the most well known being both World Wars), and causing division amongest there enemies (a shining example is the bickering right now between the Republicans and Democrats within the United States). Though they are quite good at covering there tracks, it should be noted that ever single nation that have banned the Jesuits from there lands have met with unfortunate events such as wars and tribulations (that would not have befallen them had they not banned the Jesuits).

[edit] Hobbies

Some of my favorite hobbies are reading, watching tv, playing video games, and playing computer games.

Some of my favorite books series are The Sword of Truth Series, Star Wars books (haven't read all of them yet), Lord of the Rings and other Tolkien books, The Wheel of Time series, and Earth King Trilogy (first book The Runelords). I am currently working on reading all of the Wheel of Time books and I am currently on book five, The Fires of Heaven.

The few tv shows that I enjoy are The Simpsons, The Family Guy, Avatar: The Last Airbender, King of the Hill, Danny Phantom, Fairly Odd Parents, Jimmy Neutron, SpongeBob SquarePants, The History Channal, and I am eagerly awaiting for the Star Wars Tv Series.

The types of video games that I enjoy playing on the console are First-person shooters, Role-playing, Shoot 'em up, Action, Third-person shooter, and Stealth (in that order). The games that I currently own are Doom 3, The Suffering: Ties that Bind, Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Oddworld: Strangers Wraith, and Burnout 3. Some of my favorite video games are Halo 1 & 2, Fable, Star Wars: Jedi Acadamy, Star Wars: Jedi Outcast, Final Fantasy (I, II, X)...

Some of the computer games that I enjoy playing are First-person shooters, Massively multiplayer Online Games (RPG's and Shooters), and Strategy games. A few of the computer games that I own are Battlefield 2, Star Wars: Rebellion, Star Wars: Galatic Battleground and Expansion pack Clone Wars, Deus Ex, and I am a current player in the MMO game RuneScape...

[edit] People I Admire

The Holy Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit)

[edit] People I Dislike

Lucifer, the Father of Lies

Jimmy Carter

Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton

Howard Dean

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Al Gore

John Kerry

[edit] Favorite Star Wars Characters

"Revan was power. It was like staring into the heart of the Force. Even then, you could see the Jedi he would slay etched on his soul."-Kreia

"I am not part of the dark—simply deeper in the shadows." —Quinlan Vos

"Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don't give a damn. None shall pass." —Ganner Rhysode

Movies:

Expanded Universe:

Ganner Rhysode

Tulak Hord

[edit] Lightsaber Forms

The top three forms of lightsaber combat that I would master, if I were a Jedi, would be Form III: Soresu for its defense, Form II: Makashi for its lightsaber to lightsaber combat, and Form V: Shien/Djem So for its strength and power.

[edit] Favorite Quotes

Liberal's and the Democratic Party's Idealogy

-"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It is up to you as teachers to make all of these sick children well -- by creating the international child of the future." (Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Professor of Education at Harvard, addressing the Association for Childhood Education International)

-"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." (Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU)

-"The children who know how to think for themselves, spoil the harmony of the collective society that is coming, where everyone (would be) interdependent." (John Dewey, pioneer of American modern education system)

-"Fascist ethics begin ... with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which determines the human character of the individual. According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, and this need of rising the State to its rightful position." (Mario Palmieri)

-"We must be able to arrest people before they commit crimes. By registering guns and knowing who has them we can do that. If they have guns they are pretty likely to commit a crime." (Vermont State Senator Mary Ann Carlson)

-"We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns." (Rahm Emmanuel, senior advisor to Bill Clinton)

-"I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns." (Senator Howard Metzenbaum)

-"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all." (Nikita Khrushchev to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party)

-"I cannot save every undercapitalized business in America." (Hillary Clinton, when questioned about the impact health care mandates would have on small businesses)

-"Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology." (William Z. Foster, National Chairman of the United States Communist Party)

Liberal Hypocrisy

-"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees." (President Bill Clinton)

-"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say." (Bill Clinton)

-"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . . ." (William J. Clinton)

-"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." (President Bill Clinton)

-Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..." (Sen. John F. Kerry)

-"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." (Al Gore)

-"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." (Sen. Carl Levin)

-"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." (Rep. Nancy Pelosi)

Peace and War

-"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." (John Stuart Mill)

-"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." (Baruch Spinoza)

-"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." (Dante Alighieri)

-"We make war that we may live in peace." (Aristotle)

-"The path to freedom is paved with the blood of the patriots." (unknown)

-Silent enim leges inter arma - "Laws are silent in times of war." (Cicero)

-"Those unwilling to shed the blood of the patriots do not deserve freedom at all." (LordRevan)

-Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt - "They made a desert and called it peace." (Tacitus)

-"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price." (Benjamin Franklin)

-"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." (Albert Einstein, attributed)

-"The single best augury is to fight for one's country." (Homer, The Iliad)

-"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country." (Homer, The Iliad)

-"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

-"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half." (Sir Winston Churchill)

-"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace." (Amelia Earhart)

-Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum - "Let him who wishes for peace prepare for war." (Flavius Vegetius Renatus)

Truth, Morals, and Character

-Hoc tempore obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit - "In these days’ friends are won through flattery, the truth gives birth to hate." (Terence)

-"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." (Herbert Agar)

-"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." (Lenin)

-"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." (Mark Twain, (attributed))

-"It is the truth that irritates a person." (Spanish Proverb)

-"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." (Turkish Proverb)

-"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." (Harry S. Truman)

-"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth." (Edith Sitwell)

-"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." (Sir Winston Churchill)

-"The truth is more important than the facts." (Frank Lloyd Wright)

-"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts." (Abraham Lincoln )

-"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal." (Mark Twain, Advice to Youth)

-"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations." (Aldous Huxley)

-"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." (Mark Twain)

-"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." (Mark Twain)

-"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong." (Abraham Lincoln)

-"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity." (Keshavan Nair)

-"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute." (Cicero)

-"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." (Abraham Lincoln)

-"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." (Abraham Lincoln)

-"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." (Albert Einstein)

-"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." (Benjamin Franklin)

-"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." (Albert Einstein)

-"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." (Helen Keller)

-"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest." (Hermann Hesse)

-"You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise." (Seneca)

-"Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him." (William Carleton)

-"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." (Jack London)

-"Charity begins at home." (Terence)

-"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation." (William Hutton)

-"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." (George Sand)

-"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath." (Solon)

-"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices." (Benjamin Franklin)

-"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." (Rene Descartes)

-"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence." (Democritus)

-"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything." (Johann K. Lavater)

-"Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking." (J.C. Watts)

-"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)

-"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." (Aldous Huxley)

-"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." (Marcel Proust)

Freedom

-Libertas inaestimabilis res est - "Liberty is a thing beyond all price." (Corpus Iuris Civilis)

-"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." (President Abraham Lincoln)

-"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." (Ronald Reagan)

-"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." (Abraham Lincoln )

-"Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection." (General Colin Powell)

-"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." (Bertrand Russell)

-"He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

-"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." (Justice William O. Douglas)

-"The last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." (Victor Frankel)

-"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else." (Epictetus)

-"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." (Charles Beard)

-"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard)

Governments

-"Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow." (Elias Boudinot)

-"America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world." (Dinesh D'Souza)

-"America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory." (George W. Bush)

-"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side." (Aristotle, unknown)

-"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." (Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

-"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril." (Sir Winston Churchill)

-"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." (Sir Winston Churchill)

-"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber." (Sir Winston Churchill)

-"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure." (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

-"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy." (Margaret Thatcher)

-"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country." (Sinclair Lewis)

-"I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out." (Tony Blair)

-"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them." (Lily Tomlin)

-"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide." (Samuel Adams)

-"The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility." (Brooks Atkinson)

-"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses." (Unknown)

-"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty." (Eugene McCarthy)

-"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." (Mark Twain)

-"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." (Irving Kristol)

-"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." (Alexis De Tocqueville)

-"Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law." (Clarence Thomas)

-"America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights." (Clarence Thomas)

-"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." (Henry Brougham)

-"Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend." (Unknown)

Politics

-"The left is selective in its outrage. A little white girl is raped in Vermont. Her rapist gets a 60-day prison sentence and the liberal community says little or nothing about it. Had that little girl been black or Hispanic or Native American, the left would have besieged the state of Vermont." (Bill O'Reilly)

-"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." (Ronald Reagan)

-"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others." (Theodore Roosevelt)

-"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place." (John G. Diefenbaker)

-"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." (Aristotle)

-"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader." (Harry S. Truman)

-Nihil est incertius volgo - "Nothing is more uncertain than the (favour of the) crowd." (Cicero)

-"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." (Joseph Stalin)

-"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (Lord Acton)

-"Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side." (Anonymous)

-"Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief." (James Russell Lowell)

- "...the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern." (George F. Will)

-"Liberals see the UN as a place where all countries are treated as precisely equal, whether they're a nation that promotes freedom or slavery, democracy or totalitarianism." (Joe Mariani)

-"History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic." (Walter Williams)

-"In politics stupidity is not a handicap." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

-"If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics." (Will Rogers)

Science

-Mens agitat molem - "The mind moves the matter." (Vergil)

-"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind." (John Beecher)

-"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." (Marykay Ash)

-"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." (Albert Einstein)

-"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

-"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." (Mark Twain)

-"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." (Albert Einstein attributed)

-"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." (Plato, The Republic)

-"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." (Aristotle)

-"Nature does nothing uselessly." (Aristotle)

-"The dumbest people I know are those who know it all." (Malcolm Forbes)

-"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." (Albert Einstein)

-"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." (Cicero)

-"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." (Arthur C. Clarke)

-"Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science." (Henri Poincare)

-"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." (Noam Chomsky)

-"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." (Stephen Jay Gould)

-"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability." (Vannevar Bush)

-"Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either." (Evan Esar)

-"Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." (Evan Esar)

-"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." (Marilyn vos Savant)

Philosophical

-"The greatest trick Satan has ever preformed, was to convince the world into believeing that he never existed." (From the movie Exit Wounds)

-Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim - "Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you." (Ovid)

-"Hell is paved with good samaritans." (William M. Holden)

-Damnant quod non intellegunt - "They condemn what they do not understand"

-De duobus malis minus est semper eligendum - "One must always choose the lesser of two evils." (Thomas a Kempis)

-Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet - "A timid dog barks more violently than it bites." (Curtius Rufus)

-"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments." (Benjamin Franklin)

-"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." (Sir Winston Churchill)

-"Let the punishment match the offense." (Cicero)

-"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." (Calvin Coolidge)

-"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." (Mahatma Gandhi)

-"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." (Mark Twain)

-"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." (Mark Twain)

-"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." (Mark Twain)

-"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." (Mark Twain)

-"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work." (Thomas J. Watson)

-"Nothing is so aggravating than calmness." (Oscar Wilde)

-"In order to survive we must LEARN from our pasts, simply DEAL with the present, and HOPE for the future." (Justin Rhodes Wilkins)

-"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams)

-"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." (Herm Albright)

-"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." (Alexander Graham Bell)

-"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself." (Robert F. Bennett)

-"Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it." (Irving Berlin)

-"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

-"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." (Phillips Brooks)

-"When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of." (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

-"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." (Pearl S. Buck)

Ignorance

-"Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat." (Ernest Bevin)

-"Ignorance is not innocence, but sin." (Robert Browning)

-"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow." (Frank Dane)

-"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." (Bertrand Russell)

-"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance." (Saul Bellow)

-"We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles." (Frederic Bastiat)

-"Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science. Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom." (F. A. Hayek)

-"All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest." (F. A. Hayek)

-"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." (Martin Luther King Jr.)

-"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

-"Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities." (Thomas Sowell)

-"We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance." (Warren Weaver)

-"Ignorance is always afraid of change." (Jawaharlal Nehru)

-"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." (James Baldwin)

-"To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty." (Unkown)

-"Ignorance is bliss - until it kills you." (L. MacLeod)

-"Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it." (Thomas Paine)

[edit] Favorite Scripture (King James Version)

1 Timothy 4:1-5 1. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith. giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils: 2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron: 3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Ephesians 1:3-5 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

James 1:25-27 25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26. If any man among you seem to be religous, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

James 2:9,10 9. But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

James 4:6,7 6. ...God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Romans 8:5-8 5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6. For to be carnally minded is death: but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.