Category Archives: Quotations

Unconventional Thinking

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day “One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere … Continue reading →

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Mark Twain: His Thoughts On War

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day “We lost fifteen men killed outright. ..The enemy numbered six hundred, including women and children — and we abolished them utterly, leaving not even a baby alive to cry for its dead mother. This is … Continue reading →

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Two Multi-National Corporations and a Voter

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” James Bovard (Bovard is a libertarian writer and lecturer.)

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From Womb to Tomb Without Any Help

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day “America: A country in which it has gotten too expensive to go to college, which is the only way to qualify for a decent job, which you need to get health care, which you need … Continue reading →

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BPR Quote of the Day “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” Ernest Hemingway  

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Arlen Grossman | Leave a comment

Not the Same America Any More

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day “The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.” President John F. Kennedy Commencement Address at American University in Washington, June 10, 1963

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BPR Quote of the Day: Hands-On Work

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

Image by Oleg Volk “As for the TSA, just try to think of it as George W. Bush’s version of FDR’s CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). CCC did some really great work in the national parks, etc., all by hand, so … Continue reading →

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McCarthyism – 2012 Version

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

“I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party.” Rep. Allen West (R-FL) Read the story in Politico Here

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BPR Quote of the Day: Understanding the Bible

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.” Mark Twain

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BPR Quote of the Day: America, A Love Story

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

“I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men’s hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property.” Alexis de Tocqueville from Democracy in America, (1835)

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