Gynzer’s Musings

“We must make our election between economy and liberty, or
profusion and servitude.”

–Thomas Jefferson

I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

– Carl Sandburg

There ought to be one day– just one– when there is open season on senators.

– Will Rogers

Television has raised writing to a new low.

– Samuel Goldwyn

“America is a nation with a mission, and that mission comes
from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no
ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace — a peace
founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
America acts in this cause with friends and allies at our side,
yet we understand our special calling: This great republic will
lead the cause of freedom.”

–President George W. Bush, 2004
SOTU Address

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.

– From the 1985 movie “Bliss”

“It may perhaps be said that the power of preventing bad laws
includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the
one purpose as well as to the other. But this objection will
have little weight with those who can properly estimate the
mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which
form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our
governments.”

–Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 73

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

– Eric Hoffer

“In an interview on MTV, Britney Spears says she still believes
in the sanctity of marriage… she just has a problem with the
longevity of marriage.”

–Jay Leno