A country without memory is a country of madmen. -Georges Santayana Racist: any one who is winning an argument with a Liberal -Peter Brimelow I do not know if virtue signaling also fools the person making the virtuous chirping sounds. Do such persons lack self-knowledge? -Dr. Virginia Abernethy A people alone are a great river; and where a people has died, a great nation is about to die. -William Butler Yeats A people separated from their history are easily persuaded. -Karl Marx The first step toward ultimately winning is to make sure that the enemy does not win, if it be only that he does not win everywhere. -G.K. Chesterton The future lasts a long time. -Charles De Gaulle Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. -Ecclesiastes Those who expect to be ignorant and free, expect what never was or will be. -Thomas Jefferson Truth ever on the scaffold; wrong ever on the throne. -Unknown History repeats itself, but not exactly. -Clyde N. Wilson No country can be reformed by people who hate it - a fact which our left-wing intellectuals tend to miss. -Herbert Agar Currently, less than half of K-12 school children, America’s future, are European-American. -Dr. Virginia Abernethy Big Business is a parasitic disease on capitalism which if not checked will necessarily be fatal. - David Cushman Coyle It appears that Afghanistan will be the grave of yet another empire. - William Lind The mediocre always hold the superior back even when they are on the same side. - Florence King They call this progress, but they don’t say where it is going. - William Faulkner Growth is the enemy of progress. -Edward Abbey Devolution is not an event, but a process. - Ron Davies, Welsh nationalist We cannot maintain an empire in the Orient and a republic in America. - Mark Twain We are not a virtuous nation. God and fate have not blessed us above others. - Chris Hedges “Powerful ornary stock, George, powerful ornary.” - “Sut Lovingood” on “The Puritan Yankee” Never attribute to malice what is more obviously due to stupidity or sloth. - Oscar Handlin We no longer have any politics - only marketing. - Clyde N. Wilson Public estimation of eminence runs in reverse ratio to its genuineness. - H.L. Mencken After having taken each member successively in its powerful grasp, fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. - Tocqueville Praise the Lord and pass the barbecue. - Maurice Bessinger
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Jake Starbuck
11/27/2023 10:49:34 am
I am reminded of a quote from an old cowboy film: "I knew a Yankee once. Snake bit him. Snake died."
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Clyde N Wilson
11/27/2023 01:03:47 pm
Jake, It was not a Western but Goodbye, My Lady, set in Miss. Though born in Mass. Brennan was an open conservative and Christian and portrayed Southerners beautifully in dozens of movies if not more.
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AuthorClyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews Archives
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