Looks like Rumsfeld agrees....But I also appreciate your words and agree with most of them. However, I am mindful of history as well, so instead of my own weak words, I found some other words that seem to convey my thoughts....Particularly the first and last quotes.....
Rumsfeld Moves to Slash Military Bureaucracy
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Quotes:
Be Prepared....
Boy Scout Motto
Girl Scout Motto
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
-- James Madison, Speech in the Virginia Convention; June 16, 1788
"We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world."
-- Barry Goldwater, Speech to the Republican National Convention; June 16, 1964
"What makes Western civilization worth saving is the freedom of the mind; now under heavy attack from the primitives . . . who have persisted among us. If we have not the courage to defend that faith, it won't matter much whether we are saved or not."
-- Elmer Davis, But We Were Born Free; 1954
"Public virtue cannot exist without private virtue."
--John Adams
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
--Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857
December 8, 1941 - Address to Congress
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
---Franklin D. Roosevelt |
