The State of the Union and the Democratic Response

Posted January 21, 2004, 4:18 p.m.

Last night, President George W. Bush gave the 2004 State of the Union address to a joint session of congress. If you missed the speech (as I did—damned classes!) you should go ahead and read both the President’s address and the Democratic response today.

The State of the Union Address (from C-SPAN.org)
The Democratic Response (transcript from CNN.com)

Enjoy!

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love—this is an old rule.

Siddhartha Gautama

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?

Holy Bible

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. . . . We are dealing with fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

C.S. Lewis

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

The ugly fact is books are made out of books. The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.

Cormac McCarthy

You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind . . . simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong—only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him.

C.S. Lewis

The stories we can neither ignore nor forget are unforgettable [because] they speak to something we know, but do not know that we know.

Jordan Peterson

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Elbert Hubbard

Some advocates of science insist that questions science cannot answer are meaningless, but I find this unconvincing—and unattractively narrow-minded. The pursuit of science has led me to conclude that the future is open and novelty is real.

Lee Smolin

We have got to find a substitute for war, and the substitute isn’t surrender.

Norman Thomas

[Free speech] may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.

William O. Douglas

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Seneca the Younger

There is no logical path to these laws [of physics]; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

Albert Einstein

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Theodore Parker

When I hear somebody sigh that ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

Sydney J. Harris

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death.

Fulton Sheen

[The vote is] the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

If you establish a censorship of the press, the tongue of the public speaker will still make itself heard, and you have only increased the mischief.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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