Quote/Unquote

September 01, 2007

“It is not the function of the ;vernment to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the ;vernment from falling into error.”
--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

“It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.”
--James Madison, Federalist No. 37, January 11, 1788

“It’s just so rough and decaying. That one will shake your teeth loose.”
--Jim Hines, a 27-year veteran trucker, on why he believes the I-40 Crosstown in Oklahoma City is the worst bridge in the country

“As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X, or in the better case, what A, B, and C shall do for X. … What I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the For;tten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who never is thought of. … He works, he votes, generally he prays—but he always pays.”
--Yale philosopher William Graham Sumner, 1883

“[Gambling addiction counselor Annette] Carrierre said she has walked past a row of slot machines and smelled urine—indicating a gambler chose to ; in his or her pants rather than leaving a machine for a quick rest room break. Such is the irrational nature of problem and pathological gamblers, which Carrierre said encompass 3 percent of Oklahoma’s 3.5 million residents. That’s more than 100,000 people.”
--Tony Thornton, staff writer for The Oklahoman, in “How gaming woes have taken root,” an August 7 news story

“The ;d who looked out upon the earth and pronounced it ;od designed us to glorify Him as free men and not as serfs.”
--The Wall Street Journal, December 31, 1999

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