Good Thursday Morning!!!
1. Question – Just whose ‘watch’ is it?
2. Thought – So whose “watch” is it? Who stands on deck abroad this world-ship, assuming responsibility for the actions that occur during the shift? To us, the answer is clear: the responsibility of the “watch” lies with those who take it up. Neither of us is a president, world leader, general, or captain of a gunboat, but we wish to take up the “watch,” and we know that there are thousands, maybe millions, like us who desire to tell their children and grand children that at a time when there was a terrible thing called genocide, to which those in power turned a deaf ear and blind eye, people like us spoke so loudly, in numbers so great, that we could not be ignored. (NOT ON OUR WATCH, The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast)
“Just as surely as we know that hate-mongering individuals will strike out against the innocent in the future, we must also know that you will be there to sound the alarm, to hold your leaders accountable for their sins of omission, to move us away from slogans to concrete measures to save lives. (Senators Barrack Obama and Sam Brownback)
AND:
” [They] pray for their fellow men one day a week, and on them the other six.”Quakers on New Englanders
” Certainly no power over religious discipline has been delegated to the general government, It must thus rest with the states as far as it can be in any human authority.”Thomas Jefferson
“What is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” George Mason
“The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the Legislature.”Thomas Jefferson
“Nobody was ever more justly hanged.”Nathaniel Hawthorne on John Brown
“If one of the states chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right to do so.” Alexis de Tocqueville
“If I thought this war was about slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side.”Ulysses S. Grant
“The federal government is unfit to exorcise minor police and local government, and it will inevitably blunder when it attempts it….”Henry Ward Beecher
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”Andrew Carnegie
“It takes extraordinary skill to hold more than 50 percent of a large industry’s market in a free economy…The rare company which is able to retain its share of the market year after year and decade after decade does so by means of productive efficiency – and deserves praise, not condemnation.”Alan Greenspan
“The blockade is meant to ‘starve the whole population – men, women, and children, old and young, wounded and sound – into submission.'”Winston Churchill
“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”Calvin Coolidge
“Listen honey, if it wasn’t for me, your boyfriend wouldn’t even be in the White House.”Mafia godfather Sam Giancana to Judith Campbell
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”Ronald Reagan
– the 9 most terrifying words in the English language.
“Because its not their money.”Bill Clinton
“The era of big government is over.”Bill Clinton
