Donald K. Allen for President

Quotes worth remembering

“This country is going to the dogs. What we need is a good vet!”

- Vilma O’Neil,
March 2007

“An honest politician is one who when he’s bought stays bought.”

- Simon Cameron,
1799 – 1889

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

- Mark Twain
(Samuel Longhorne Clemens)
1835 - 1910

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

- William Shakespeare
1564 - 1616
King Henry VI, Pt. IV

“The United States has become the most litigious society on earth through the efforts of lawyers, judges, and lawyer-politicians, not for the betterment of the people, but for the financial gain of their profession and colleagues.”

- Donald K. Allen,
March 19, 2007

“Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal.”

- Abraham Lincoln,
1809 - 1865

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

- Francis Bellamy,
1856 – 1931

“It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God… and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proved by all history, that those nations only are blest whose God is the Lord.”

- Abraham Lincoln,
1809 - 1865

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

- George Santayana,
1863 - 1952

“Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one’s pulse and taking one’s temperature.”

- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill,
1874 - 1965

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

- Booker T. Washington

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Sir Winston S. Churchill
1874-1965

"[t]he strength and spring of every free government is the virtue of the people; virtue grows on knowledge, and knowledge on education."

Moses Mather, 1775

“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”

Plato – The Republic