Dear
Lovers of Liberty, the struggle is
just beginning! Get ready...
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"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Franz Kafka
"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us
deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like
being banished into forests far from everyone... A book must be the axe
for the frozen sea inside us."
Franz
Kafka
Barrett Kalellis, July 18, 2000
"Sifting through the blather, the political paradigm has devolved into saying what you must to get elected, passing legislation that may or may not be good for the country, and staying in office. Analyzing this sorry spectacle every four years, it appears that too many Americans are willing to put their faith in a power-seeking, mandarin class of second- and third-rate professional careerist politicians whose primary allegiance, I'm afraid, is to themselves. What is needed are persons of impeccable, statesman-like character and reasoned judgment -- people, for the most part, who would be instinctively repelled by the political process."
"(T)hink tanks are aptly named: they are tanks whose guns and treads are aimed at thought." Bill Kauffman, 'Look Homeward America', p2 |
"Do you really think Henry Kissinger gave a damn how
many Joe Doakses and LeRoy Washingtons he inscribed on the Vietnam
Wall? He didn't know these men; he couldn't imagine them. They hadn't
even the reality of a planchet on a Risk board."
Bill Kaufmann
"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."
Garrison Keillor
"The rules for marriage are the same as for a lifeboat. No sudden moves, don't crowd the
other person, and keep all disastrous thoughts to yourself."
Garrison Keillor
Helen Keller
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
Helen Keller
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the
garden a place of delight just the same."
Helen Keller
"Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful."
Helen Keller
"Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years
we have lived."
Helen Keller
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may
be in, therein to be content."
Helen Keller
"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against
manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against
preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb,
obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!"
Helen Keller
"We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities."
Walt Kelly, from "Pogo" (1913 - 1973)
"The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God."
John F. Kennedy,
Inaugural
Address, 1961
"Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem
to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of
our people."
John F. Kennedy
"(W)e
must
face the
fact that the United States is neither
omnipotent nor omniscient --- that we are only six percent (now four
percent)
of the world's
population --- that we cannot impose our will
upon the
other
94 percent of mankind --- that we cannot right every wrong or reverse
each
adversity --- and that therefore there cannot be an American solution
to
every world problem."
John F. Kennedy,
1962
"People have not
been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War
will exist
until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same
reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
John F. Kennedy
"At a time when our entire country is banding together and facing down individualism, the Patriots set a wonderful example, showing us all what is possible when we work together, believe in each other, and sacrifice for the greater good."
Sen. Ted Kennedy,
praising
the New England Patriots for winning the 2002 Super Bowl
"While the deep
concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and
sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion
on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization
places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life,
even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be
recognized - the right to be born, the right to love, the right to
grown old.
I share the confidence of those who feel that America is working to
care for its unwanted as well as wanted children, protecting
particularly those who cannot protect themselves. I also share the
opinions of those who do not accept abortion as a response to our
society's problems -- an inadequate welfare system, unsatisfactory job
training programs, and insufficient financial support for all its
citizens.
When history looks back to this era it
should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings
enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for
every family and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the
very moment of conception."
Sen. Ted Kennedy,
[D-Mass.], in a letter to a constituent, August 3, 1971
"The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people."
Frank Kent
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't
have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
Frederick Keonig (1915-1978)
| "It´s
the bottom of the ninth inning - the Texas Rangers are ahead by
one run and future Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins is starting to tire
after pitching eight superb innings of one-run baseball. Rangers
manager Pat Corrales strolls to the mound to bring in 1979 American
League Rolaids Relief Award-winner Jim Kern (AKA "The Amazing Emu") to
close it out. As Emu reaches the mound after sprinting from the
bullpen, Fergie shakes his head, and says, "Emu, could you at least
wipe the nacho cheddar cheese out of the corner of your mouth before
coming into this do-or-die situation?!" Jim "The Amazing Emu" Kern |
"I told him I wasn't tired. He told me, 'No, but the outfielders sure are.'"
Jim Kern, when his manager, Pat Corrales took him out of a game. 1979
"Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty."
"A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of courage deserves. Having been told by their opponents for years that the key to Republican victory was a softening of the message and more smiles, Republicans have now apparently taken a big dose of this medicine. One might counsel more caution in accepting medicine from one's enemies."
Alan Keyes
"You cannot be defenseless against evil. To discard the means for people to defend themselves leads to the kind of holocaust we have seen over and over again."
Alan Keyes
"The
flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long
time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and
Stripes."
Alan Keyes
"We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens. ...And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America."
"Relativism says it is impossible to be wrong in any way that matters. As such it is the opiate of the people."
Dick Keyes
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the
incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes, (1883 - 1946) British economist
"Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables
ten men to do the work of one."
John Maynard Keynes
"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking."
John Maynard Keynes
"Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled and incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of other [countries] so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world...Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured [by the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender to the enemy? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim."
The Ayatollah
Ruhollah
Khomeini, quoted in Amir Taheri's Holy Terror: Inside the World of
Islamic
Terrorism, 1987
"To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious."
Soren Kierkegaard, (1813-1855) Journal, 1847
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
Soren Kierkegaard
"To dare is
to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
Soren
Kierkegaard
"There is
one thing that is very rare; true sorrow over one's sin."
Soren Kierkegaard, Without Authority [1850]
"God created out of nothing--wonderful you say: yes to be sure, but he
does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
Soren
Kierkegaard, Journal [July 7, 1838]
"God sometimes lets the believer stumble and fall in some temptation or
other, precisely in order to humble him and thereby to establish him
better in the good."
Soren
Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death [1849]
"But Job! The moment the Lord took everything away, he did not first
say, "The Lord took away," but first of all he said, "The Lord gave."
Soren
Kierkegaard, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
"Truth
always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger
than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion,
while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who
have no opinion -
and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the
minority is the stronger) assume its opinion . . . while Truth again
reverts to a new minority."
Soren
Kierkegaard
Roger Kimball, "The
Death of Socialism", The New Criterion, April 2002
"I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which
we face them, that constitutes our comfort."
Elizabeth T. King
"You can't fight genetics. Unless, of course, you happen to be born with a gene for
fighting genetics."
John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic (1965 - )
Rudyard Kipling,
(1865-1936)
"If any question
why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."
Rudyard Kipling
"The
individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by
the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will
be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to
pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Rudyard Kipling
"A man's
mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower."
Rudyard Kipling
"A people always ends by resembling its shadow."
Rudyard Kipling
"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."
Rudyard Kipling
"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."
Rudyard Kipling
"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."
Rudyard Kipling
"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."
Rudyard Kipling
"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his
mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty,
but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling
"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it
to your neighbors."
Rudyard Kipling
"He wrapped
himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple
of Emperors."
Rudyard
Kipling
"A man can
never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition."
Rudyard
Kipling
"Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license."
"Not by
force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of
moral and intellectual principle."
Russell Kirk
"Yugoslavia, a sovereign state, is being asked to cede - to foreign military force -control and in time sovereignty of a province containing its national shrines. The anology would be of America being asked to admit foreign troops to return the Alamo to Mexico because the ethnic balance in Texas has shifted."
Henry Kissinger in an editorial in the N.Y. Post Feb. 20, 1999 page 15
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
Henry Kissinger
"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all the peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing that every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."
Henry Kissinger, in
an
address to the Bilderbergers group, May 21, 1992- Evian, France
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
Henry Kissinger
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name."
Henry Kissinger
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be
true."
Henry Kissinger
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be
true."
Henry Kissinger
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
Henry Kissinger
"The
nice thing about being a
celebrity
is that when you bore people, they think it's
their
fault."
"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."
Fletcher Knebel
"Well, the hot story of the week is victory. The Tommy Franks-Don Rumsfeld battle plan, war plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths. There is a lot of work yet to do, but all the naysayers have been humiliated so far. The final word on this is hooray." Morton Kondracke, Fox News, 4/12/03 |
"All of the significant battles are waged within the self."
Sheldon Kopp, (1929-, American psychologist)
"War is, at first, the hope that we will be better off; next, the expectation that the
other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and,
finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off."
Karl Kraus
"One of the most common of all diseases is diagnosis."
Karl Kraus
"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and
believe what they read."
Karl Kraus, Aphorisms and More Aphorisms [1909]
"The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power." Charles Krauthammer, neocon |
"The only
people who think this (the Iraq war) wasn't a victory are Upper West
Side
liberals, and a few people here in Washington."
Charles Krauthammer, "Inside Washington," 4/19/2003
"The national anthem of hell is 'I Did It My Way.'"
Peter Kreeft, A Turn of the Clock
"[We] are conservative, but different in certain respects from the conservatism of the Republican Party. We accepted the New Deal in principle, and had little affection for the kind of isolationism that then permeated American conservatism." Irving Kristol, in his 1995 book, Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea |
Irving Kristol, "The Neoconservative Persuasion"
"I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory."
Irving Kristol, 1995
"(A) conservative welfare state ... is perfectly consistent with the neoconservative perspective."
"...[T]he United States has a fundamental choice to make in confronting rogue states, dictators developing weapons of mass destruction, and global terrorism: Either we act aggressively to shape the world and change regimes where necessary, or we accept living in a world in which our very existence is contingent on the whims of unstable tyrants."
"America's international role. What should that role be?
Benevolent global hegemony.
Having defeated the "evil empire," the United States enjoys strategic
and ideological predominance. The first objective of U.S. foreign
policy should be to preserve and enhance that predominance by
strengthening America's security, supporting its friends, advancing its
interests, and standing up for its principles around the world."
William
Kristol, "Toward a
Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy.", 1996
"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic."
Erik von Kuehnelt-LeddihnR.
B. Kuiper,
1886-1966
"The struggle of
man against power is the struggle of memory
against forgetting."
Milan Kundera,
novelist
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"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith."
Abraham Kuyper
"Freedom is in danger precisely when citizens
lack pride and the state lacks bounds."
Abraham Kuyper
Kuyper's simple yet profound Christian vision was based upon a deep faith as Christ as the King over the entire cosmos. The exercise of this Christian vision in public affairs can be called "political spirituality" - the ability to discern the directions sin and grace take in public affairs. Political spirituality is an integrated Christian attitude which enriches both thought and action. ...This attitude of political spirituality must not be confused with Kuyper's political tactics. Tactics change as times and situations differ, "political spirituality" remains a part of a Christian's obligations to do all things to the glory of God. The attitude of christians towards a secularised society determines what they think and do.
H. Evan Runner, preface to The Practice of Political Spirituality, McKendree R Langley, Paedeia Pres 1984, p3
"One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. And sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God."
Abraham Kuyper, 1897
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."
