Doughface Democrats Quotes & Sayings

Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off. — Rich Lowry

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy. — Beyonce Knowles

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods. — Bhagat Singh

How ironic that when they'd been married, she'd never thought of growing old with him.
Yet now, years after the annulment, she should think of it with the yearning of an exile, for
the homeland that had long ago evicted her. — Sherry Thomas

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes ... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions. — John Constable

A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor — Benjamin Franklin

There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war. — John Eldredge

When it was the One Hundred and Forty-first Night, — Anonymous

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. — A.W. Tozer