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

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual . . . but rather he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

Samuel Adams

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Nikola Tesla

Always obey your parents when they are present.

Mark Twain

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

U.S. Dec. of Independence

Everything stands or falls with the act of speaking out.

Mattias Desmet

People enjoy helping when they can, it is part of human nature. But when people are forced to pay heavy taxes to finance entitlement programs, food stamps, and welfare, they hate it.

Paul Skousen

Should one point out that, from ancient times, decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To be human is to live suspended between danger and opportunity.

Lee Smolin

[Inflation] is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism.

Ludwig von Mises

We have to view technology as what it always has been—a tool for the betterment of the human condition. We should neither worship at the altar of technology nor be frightened by it.

Nate Silver

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Horace

What happened with slavery is now happening with embryo killing: the people who used to defend it as a ‘necessary evil’ to be resisted or lessened by means other than legal prohibition now promote it as a social good—something that law and government should not only tolerate but embrace and even promote.

Robert George

For the revolution is never stronger than the failure of civilization. Communism is never stronger than the failure of other faiths.

Whittaker Chambers

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Aristotle

Don’t judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

Josemaría Escrivá

[Man] can survive in only one of two ways—by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others. The creator originates. The parasite borrows.

Ayn Rand

Wingsuits [are] the halfway point between parachute pants and parachutes.

Randall Munroe

When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

How silly to suppose that any man by his own efforts can ever save himself.

Whittaker Chambers

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