#dom

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans. ↗

— Scott Walker

#because #confidence #did #extraordinary #forward

How many types of curtains can there be? When I asked the salesman this, he banged on the organ and bellowed with laughter. But I saw those feet fidgeting. He just didn't know. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #random #funny

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#armed forces #best #critical #ensure #forces

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses. ↗

— John Warner

#around #bear #cost #defend #effort

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ↗

— George Washington

#dumb #freedom #freedom of speech #led #like

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#knowledge #our #our time #power #proper

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#down #forced #freedom #gave #hide

If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone. ↗

— Colin Bateman

#wisdom #life

Material wealth can be bad for your health. Because when you’re in the soil it’ll make your blood boil, that you couldn’t keep it all for your self. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#lifestyle #philosophy #wisdom #life

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#because #deficient #domination #dose #inefficient