Quotes For The Times

Heavy-Handed Politics once again comes through with some great quotes. Take a look:

"When we go to the polls in November, we should beware of any candidate promising that government will solve all our problems. We need to work to keep government doing its right roles and no more, because if we do not, it will eventually cease to function at all."
-- Chuck Colson --

This is key. We as a nation need to decide where the power and responsibility should rest: on the individual, or on the government. While McCain is no conservative, he still presents a major contrast to Obama, the consummate liberal. If Obama wins in November (and especially if the Dems take a significant majority of Congress), we will see an expansion of government like none other that has yet taken place. The saying 'be careful what you wish for' is especially applicable to this coming election.

"Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy 'accommodation.' And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer—not an easy one, but a simple one—if you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right... [E]very lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face."
-- Ronald Reagan --

Ronald Reagan recognized the ultimate problem with too much government control when it comes to dealing with foreign evil-doers. The liberals then said the same things - if we would only sit down and talk with them, they'd start to like us...

Unfortunately, this is a fatal mistake. It didn't work with Hitler, it didn't work with Saddam Hussein, and it won't work with Ahmadinejad or any other dictator bent on wreaking havoc on the world. The liberal mentality simply won't acknowledge that some people are just evil and willing to commit any atrocity to achieve their aims. The problem with that, of course, is that when liberals are in charge, it is the American people who inevitably get hurt as the result of that false liberal utopian ideal. Just look at history, and you'll see what I mean. Over and over, we see throughout history that the only way to effectively stop these evil men is through the use of force. Period.

"Years and years of history books have taught us that America was shaped by the great deeds of great men and women. It was not. America was shaped by the great deeds of ordinary men and women. America always has been better than its government, that its people have always been more decent than their presidents, and that the strength and greatness of this nation lies in them, the men and women who are not great and who never will be."
-- Roger Simon --

Simon nails it. It is not the elites of this country that made it great. It is the people, the citizens, the anonymous men, women, and children who work hard, study hard, and achieve great things on a daily basis. Those leaders who have acknowledged this fundamental fact about America have connected with the American people on a much deeper level and tapped that power to accomplish great things with the support of the people.

Those who haven't -- like Barack Obama, who sniffs down his nose at us bitter God-and-gun-clingers -- will forever misunderstand what we really need. It is this failure that causes liberals to superimpose their own agendas onto everyone around them. They simply think they know better than us commoners, and thus they should dictate how we live our lives.

These quotes are very applicable to our current time, especially as it relates to the presidential candidates.

Think about 'em.

There's my two cents.