Huntington West Virginia Blog - Historical Quotes

Albert Einstein

stephanie@sheck.com (Huntington West Virginia) — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:05:22 -0500

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." Albert Einstein

BARRY GOLDWATER QUOTE

stephanie@sheck.com (Huntington West Virginia) — Mon, 02 May 2005 09:56:46 -0400

BARRY GOLDWATER ( in the Congressional Record ), September 16, 1981:

There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'

Conservative Arizona Senator / 1964 Republican presidential nominee
Barry Goldwater

Theodore Roosevelt

stephanie@sheck.com (Huntington West Virginia) — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:53:38 -0400

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt Quote

stephanie@sheck.com (Huntington West Virginia) — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:49:17 -0400

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace, business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Oct 31, 1936

Eisenhower Prayer

stephanie@sheck.com (Huntington West Virginia) — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:12:08 -0500

"We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961