Ernest Istook Quotes
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
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Morality is contraband in war.
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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
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Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
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The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preserve peace, happiness and prosperity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter.
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Due to the efficient supervision of the Secretary of War the Army of the United States has been organized with a small body of Regulars and a moderate National Guard and Reserve. The defense test of September 12 demonstrated the efficiency of the operating plans. These methods and operations are well worthy of congressional support.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.
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Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.
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I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.
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I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.
