Continuing the quest "to Get a Million Hits in Less Than a Year," today's Rule 5 post goes All-American!
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
Full Metal Saturday: Sarah Palin on July 4th!
Rule 5 Extra: "Nearly Naked" fireworks stand controversy
"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." - John Adams
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” - Alexis de Tocqueville
"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." - Thomas Jefferson
The Lady of the Hour posing amidst National Guardsmen
Rule 5 Rescue: Katy Perry, Cosmo Edition!
“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”- Ronald Reagan
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater
Marisol Nichols is absolutely adorable
Video: Hottie Megan Fox On Letterman
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission." - Ayn Rand
Carnivores Don't Need No Stinkin' Support Group!
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." - George Washington
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
Highly Recommended Hurricane names for 2009
A photographic history of the bikini, with explanatory notes.
"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man." - Thomas Paine
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.” - Adam Smith
"Every generation needs a new revolution." - Thomas Jefferson
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." - John Adams
Rule 5 Monday: Wimbledon Edition
For the ladies ... An “Everyman”, Karl Malden, Dead At 97
“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.” - Thomas Paine
“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.” - Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
Rule 5, Independence Day Version!
"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto." - Thomas Jefferson
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." - Samuel Adams
"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats." - Benjamin Franklin
“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” - Milton Friedman
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children." - John Adams
Iraq edition of rule #5 with Zeena Zahawi
Here's the new Miss Virginia, Caressa Cameron!
"We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man." - James Madison
"Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free." - Thomas Jefferson
Jessica Simpson & John Wayne on America
"Democracy is a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses." - H.L. Mencken
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." - Frederic Bastiat
Yo ... where's HotMES?
Bob,
Thanks for the link! More importantly thanks to R.S. McCain for the brilliant idea!
Thanks for the link to my RULE 5. And thanks for the other links: I’ve been enjoying them and finding they are of great patriotic value.
Cordially…Bob
Linked to your posting at:
http://www.thecampofthesaints.com/2009.07.05_arch.html#1246892348662
Smoking is right! God bless the all-American girl!
Smoking!
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