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2004-06-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Steve 2004-06-07 12:01:13 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I forget who said it: "If your not a Liberal when your 20 you have no heart and if your not a Conservative when your 30 you have no brain."

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-06-07 2:53:30 PM|| 2004-06-07 2:53:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Peggy Noonan also had a nice remembrance in the WSJ this morning.

Posted by Mike 2004-06-07 3:11:28 PM|| 2004-06-07 3:11:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Chirac says history is not replicated. In other words, Iraq is not comparable to D-Day and WW2. But read these concluding words:

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits-not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

That was Reagan and he was talking about the Soviet Union not Al-Q and the threat of terrorism but you could pin it on W's teleprompter and it would serve today as it did in Ronnie's time.

Posted by Jack is Back! 2004-06-07 4:41:52 PM|| 2004-06-07 4:41:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Cyber sarge: Amen.

Posted by Evert V. in NL 2004-06-07 5:07:11 PM|| [http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=935389&t=2] 2004-06-07 5:07:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Cyber Sarge: is usually (an incorrectly) attributed to Churchill. Funny thing, I had always remembered it as being his - so who knows?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-07 6:03:03 PM|| 2004-06-07 6:03:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The earliest known version of this observation is attributed to
mid-nineteenth century historian and statesman FranÃ§ois Guizot:
Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart;
to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.
Variations on this theme were later attributed to Disraeli, Shaw,
Churchill, and Bertrand Russell. (I misquoted Churchill to this
effect for years.)"
found it on the web, but don't ask me where.

Posted by meeps 2004-06-07 11:10:27 PM|| 2004-06-07 11:10:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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