Dangers of Communism

"The Communists could succeed if we ever let ourselves be lulled into thinking that they are no longer dangerous to us externally and internally. They would be victorious if we were ever duped by their own nationals or by foolish Americans -- if we were ever duped into believing that they are not aggressive,  atheist socialist imperialists. They have proved they never sleep. They have never permanently retreated, and what seems at a particular time to be a cessation of their forward movement or a change in their designs is nothing more than a tactical maneuver on another front."

Kenneth D. Wells

President of Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation

Source: BYU Speech, 30 Apr. 1962, in Speeches, 1962, p. 5

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Kenneth.Wells.Quote.506E

Alexis de Tocqueville

"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

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[Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] (1805-1859) French historian

Source: Democracy in America, Vol. II (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), Chap. 6

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Alexis.de.Tocqueville.Quote.3FC8

Big Brother

"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity."

Eric Hoffer

(1902-1983) American author, philosopher, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Chapter 15

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Eric.Hoffer.Quote.D56F

Blue Star Memorial Highway

The Blue Star Memorial Highway is dedicated to those who have defended (and in my opinion still do) the United States.

The Blue Star Memorial Highway

A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America.

Sponsored by:

Garden Clubs of Ohio, Inc

In cooperation with:

Ohio Department of Highways

Purple Martin Apartment House

Purple Martins and a "Secure Future"?

Yes, they would fall under environment, survival and sustainability.

If there are no birds then there is something wrong with your environment. Too much of the US has been buried or paved over. Vast green lawns support some wildlife, particularly Canadian Geese who seem to love to graze on the grass, but they do not support a variety of wildlife.

Driving through many suburban or urban neighborhoods you may see many well groomed shrubs/bushes, trees, and grass -- a collection of flora.

Look closer, how much fauna (i.e. animals) do you see?

Obameter - from Politifact.com

Thomas Jefferson

"Agriculture, manufacturers, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise."

Comment: I used this quote before but this time let me expand on its' context. President Thomas Jefferson's first annual message to Congress on 8 December 1801 contained this quote. Once again, remember that our third President was a plantation owner, with agriculture as the basis for his income dependent on commerce (which used navigation to get products to and from buyers and consumers). Manufacturers provided the tools necessary to improve production on the farm as well as in other industries. The large plantation of that time period was nearly self-sufficient, producing almost everything it needed from the land and human labor.