In Reagan’s Footsteps

Posted February 25, 2005, 12:31 p.m.

A really good editorial in the Wall St. Journal this morning about a trend I’ve been noticing—anti-war folks coming (slowly) to the grudging conclusion that Bush may just be right about this whole war in Iraq.

The WSJ is talking about the Europeans, but I am starting to see the same trend here (there’s a good example from a few weeks ago by Mark Brown: What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along? [Chicago Sun-Times]).

Chances are that you know a reformed anti-war person yourself, though they may not be admitting it yet ;-).

In Reagan’s Footsteps (Wall St. Journal OpinionJournal.com).

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.

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Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

Horace

Sometimes people fail to recognize and respect human rights because they have self-interested motives for doing so. In most cases of exploitation, for example, the fundamental failing is moral, not intellectual.

Robert George

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Alexander Hamilton

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

John Paul II

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one’s feet.

Lao Tsu

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Ambrose Bierce

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights, subject only to the proviso that he not interfere with the freedom of other individuals to do the same.

Milton Friedman

When you ain’t nothing else, you are an artist. It’s the one thing you can claim to be and nobody can prove you ain’t.

Will Rogers

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

There are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

Maximilian Kolbe

No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.

Jane Wagner

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

Siddhartha Gautama

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to want.

Holy Bible

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Thomas Sowell

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Erasmus

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry.

Tertullian

Nobody’s ever been treated badly like me . . . Although they do say Abraham Lincoln was treated really badly.

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