“Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?” GivingYearsEnemyCitizensThousandGiving UpFrightenedThousand YearsNsaAmerican Citizens Author:Rand Paul
“The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.” GivingLittlesImportantStatesWholeGovernmentGreaterCitizensGiving UpConstitutionEaseFabric Book:The Essential Aristotle Source: The Essential Aristotle
“the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.” GivingLongParentLandFoodBirthCitizensGiving UpLoyaltySeatsAttachmentPatrioticStomachAmerican CitizensHold Fast Book:It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum Source: It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” GivingPoliticsForceAttentionLibertyArmsCitizensGiving UpApproachGunPreservesPatriotismSuspectsJealousAmendmentsGun ControlRuinedFoundingJewels4th Of JulyFreedom And LibertyIntriguingSecond AmendmentFreedom LibertyProperty RightsFirearmsRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsIndividual LibertyGun RightsRights And FreedomsPro GunFounding Fathers GunIndividual Freedom2 AmendmentFounding Fathers Second AmendmentFramersPublic TrustPrice Of FreedomAnti GunAmendment 1Tyranny Founding FathersStrong ArmsAmending The ConstitutionAmendment 19Amendment 4Security And FreedomAmendment 13Guards Up Author:Patrick Henry
“I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.” WorldGivingMindTwoBookTogetherChoicesHouseStuffViewsCareersModernCitizensGiving UpConstantCriticsUniversityPoint Of ViewDialogueTwo ThingsAcademicModern WorldRest Of Your LifeReconcileFundamentalistModern Education Author:John Shelby Spong