Quotes of the PoetPatriot - PoetPatriot.com

I had used the word "Maxim" but that kept eating at me so I looked it up.
My quotes are not widely accepted, so they do not meet the criteria of being a "maxim."
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"Without the men and women who serve to protect our peace, our peace would be short lived."
- Roger W Hancock 03-09-08 - An email sent to the Cactus Cuties

"Without a religion man must create a god or no-god in which to place his faith."
- Roger W Hancock 03-17-08 - An email sent to Ben Stein

"The order and structure of our existence is so pronounced throughout life and the galaxy that Intelligent Design cannot be disproved."
- Roger W Hancock 03-09-08 - An email sent to Ben Stein

"Evolution is the religion of those who hold no valuation of religion."
- Roger W Hancock 03-09-08 - An email sent to Ben Stein

"Critique is a tool for one who strives for excellence."
-Roger W Hancock, July 20th, 2007 - An email sent to Cheney Free Press

"Laws help keep the irresponsible responsible."
-Roger W Hancock, 2006 - Comment at Liberty-Tree.ca

"In the beginning God gave one law. Man disobeyed and is now cursed by the many."
-Roger W Hancock, 2006 - Comment at Liberty-Tree.ca

"History is a view into the working of man that today we might learn the successes and failures as we move into the future."
-Roger W Hancock, September 22nd, 2007 - An email sent to Love to Learn Place.

"Nobody is a nobody, unless that person makes it so."
-Roger W Hancock, September 5th, 2007 - An email sent to Susan Baldwin the Conservative Wordsmith.

"Terror is the enemy of a civilized people."
-Roger W Hancock, May 24th, 2007 - An email sent to GlobalIncidentMap.com

"Terrorism is modern execution of primitive barbarism."
-Roger W Hancock, May 24th, 2007 - An email sent to GlobalIncidentMap.com

"Terrorism must be fought. Terrorists, no tolerance, taught."
-Roger W Hancock, May 24th, 2007 - An email sent to GlobalIncidentMap.com

"You can become a father with little thought; to be a good father takes much thought."
- Roger W Hancock, May 19th, 2007, On the TimeLines of Liberty for the Father's Day TimeLine

"One only stops learning when life has ceased."
- Roger W Hancock, May 14th, 2007, An email sent to Melanie Simms of www.PoetMelanieSimms.com.

"I value critique, even criticism, greater than compliments.
One who criticizes, most often is sincere,
whereas the person who compliments may only be patronizing."
- Roger W Hancock, May 14th, 2007, An email sent to Melanie Simms of www.PoetMelanieSimms.com.

"To honor those, who honor us by serving, is surely a worthy cause."
- Roger W Hancock, May 4th, 2007, An email sent to Lisa Wallace, Norman, Oklahoma;
University of Oklahoma.

"One cannot reason with a closed mind."
- Roger W Hancock, January 10th, 2007, from a post at Peace is Active.

"One cannot discuss peace where peace is not desired."
- Roger W Hancock, January 10th, 2007, from a post at at Peace is Active.

"The goal of peace surely is noble, although futile in the frailty of man's character."
- Roger W Hancock, January 10th, 2007, posted at Peace is Active.

"Power corrupts and when corrupted respects no man."
- Roger W Hancock, January 10th, 2007, from a post at at Peace is Active.

"Peace without enforcement has no means to sustain itself
from those who wish to impose their version of peace upon others."
- Roger W Hancock, January 10th, 2007, from a post at at Peace is Active.

"World Peace will not be achieved when there exists any threat to World Peace.
Fail to defend peace and peace will be achieved;
an oppressive peace enforced by tyrants."
- Roger W Hancock, January 10th, 2007, from a post at at Peace is Active.

"It is the individual that lends his liberty to a collective power."
- Roger W Hancock, January 5th, 2007, in an email to the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.

"To be required, without choice, to have ones liberty abridged by organizations,
especially to which they chose no allegiance,
within the only true bastion of liberty, America, is incomprehensible."
- Roger W Hancock, January 5th, 2007, in an email to the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.

"Peace without vigilance becomes a frail victim to oppression."
- Roger W Hancock, July 22, 2006 in an email to the WordWarriorette.

"The love of the long term lover is ever greater.
A lifetime fails to produce more than one great love."
- Roger W Hancock, July 1, 2006 in an entry to the Guestbook of Errol Martino Shakescharm Granston.

"Only time allows the growth of a lifetime love."
- Roger W Hancock, July 1, 2006 in an entry to the Guestbook of Errol Martino Shakescharm Granston.

"If America does not promote democracy throughout the world,
threats to liberty will encroach upon her shores."

- Roger W Hancock, June 23, 2006 simply thinking of comments that anti-Bush persons have stated about the Iraq War.

"As imperfect as our system is, no working model has provided
the affluence that America's poor enjoy today."

- Roger W Hancock, April 18, 2006 in an email sent to Mason, of Seattle and Dave Zink (self described socialist).

"Welfare is socialism. It is the confiscating of one's earnings to give to another."
- Roger W Hancock, April 13, 2006 in an email to Chuck Hancock of Puyallup, Washington.

"Environmentalism that gives no consideration to the citizen, is extreme."
- Roger W Hancock, April 7, 2006 in an email to Dave Zink, a self proclaimed socialist.

"The welfare state is the slave owner of labor."
- Roger W Hancock, April 4, 2006 in an email sent to liberal Jerome Johnson .

"We must stand for liberty or we shall surely fall to oppression."

- Roger W Hancock, March 28, 2006 in a bulk email sent to King County Voters about a stealth Election.

"We know the premise on which our liberty stands is He who also liberates from sin."

- Roger W Hancock, March 26, 2006 in an email sent to David Harsh (Pacific N.W. Christian performer).

"Perhaps it is the understanding of liberation of sin
that gave America's founding fathers the desire to be free of oppression of another's sin."

- Roger W Hancock, email sent to David Harsh, (Pacific N.W. Christian performer) on March 26, 2006.

"The American military are the peacemakers. An oxymoron, a dichotomy, you bet, but fact."

- Roger W Hancock, email sent to Dave Zink (self described socialist) on March 24, 2006.

"No peace has been achieved through negotiation without an oppressive result."

- Roger W Hancock, email sent to Dave Zink (self described socialist) on March 24, 2006.

"War is nasty, war is hell, but war is necessary to fight oppression and other threats to peace."

- Roger W Hancock, email sent to Dave Zink (self described socialist) on March 24, 2006.

"Passivism betrays itself by failing to protect the peace."
- Roger W Hancock, email sent to Dave Zink (self described socialist) on March 24, 2006.

"Partisanship is the core of politics."
- Roger W Hancock, March 9, 2006; email to Ray K. Hancock, brother to the PoetPatriot.

Some have what it takes and some do not, you will not know if you do not try.
- Roger W Hancock, this entry March 8, 2006; This morning I was half awake with an active mind.

"The families of our heroes need not be confronted by the inconsideration
of opportunists who would add to the grief of their loss."
- Roger W Hancock March 7, 2006, in a bulk email to supporters of our troops
concerning legislating a buffer between protestors and the funerals of our heroes.

"It is a sad day when we must legislate common decency and common sense."
- Roger W Hancock March 7, 2006, in a bulk email to supporters of our troops
concerning legislating a buffer between protestors and the funerals of our heroes.

"Common Sense, perhaps it should be called traditional sense,
for common sense is becoming a rare commodity in the arena of public discourse."
- Roger W Hancock, in an email to Donna (Calvin) Kromer, the WordWarriorette, January 30, 2006

"The Judge who fails to uphold American law is an enemy to jurisprudence."
- Roger W Hancock, PoetPatriot BLOG, January 14, 2006

"The past is past, the lost is lost; worrying, fretting, 'bittering' does not change a thing."
- Roger W Hancock, in an email to Dick Notebaert, CEO of Qwest Communications , December 22, 2005

"To deny the Christian heritage of America is to deny American history."
- Roger W Hancock, in an email to James Dearmore of Biblical Patriot , December 19, 2005

"Communication not communicated often speaks more than [is] intended."
- Roger W Hancock, in an email to Jeff Palmer at Republican Liberty Caucus, December 19, 2005

"It is not just the military personnel who sacrifice but their families as well."
- Roger W Hancock, in an email to Ryan Kinsella-Harmon, November 29, 2005

"To serve [in the military] is a sacrifice for freedom."
- Roger W Hancock, in an email to Ryan Kinsella-Harmon, November 29, 2005

"To be supportive of a family member who serves [in the military] is a sacrifice for freedom."
- Roger W Hancock, in an email to Ryan Kinsella-Harmon, November 29, 2005

"To try and fail is far better than to never try and wonder why."
- Roger W Hancock, email to a School Teacher, Veleria Wilson,
Harmony High School, cow pasture, East Texas, November 3, 2005

"To wonder what could have been is time away from what is today."
- Roger W Hancock, email to a School Teacher, Veleria Wilson,
Harmony High School, cow pasture, East Texas, November 3, 2005

"The experiences of the past, bad or good, builds what is today."
- Roger W Hancock, email to a School Teacher, Veleria Wilson,
Harmony High School, cow pasture, East Texas, November 3, 2005

"The jackass follows as it bucks and caws behind the steady deliberate trek of the elephant."
- Roger W Hancock, in an email sent to the Washington State Republican Party, November 2nd, 2005

"Saddam Hussein was a terrorist and a head of state mixing a hypocritical religion with his tyranny."
- Roger W Hancock, email sent to Dave Zink (Self described Socialist) on October 8th, 2005.

"Without America's leading and the bravery of those who serve,
we would be living in a world designed by Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Saddam, Osama
and all others of the past and future that have and will threaten the world's peace."
- Roger W Hancock, email sent to Army Sgt. Cory Blair of Louisville, Ky, through the website A Tribute To Our Troops on August 29, 2005.

"Joining the military is, at least, the sacrifice of civil liberties;
to protect the liberty of America's civil society."
- Roger W Hancock, email sent to Andrea Blair of Scituate, RI (serving in the Air Force) through the website A Tribute To Our Troops on August 29, 2005.

"We have a dichotomy in that when government officials do nothing
the people perceive them as doing nothing.
When officials keep failing to provide solutions that work the people see them as inept. 'Damned if they do, damned if they don't.'
So we move on as taxes increase and our rights erode."
- Roger W Hancock, email response to Mayor Pete Lewis, Auburn, WA and Bob Cottrell, June 25, 2005.

"Government intervention does not often provide permanent solutions."
- Roger W Hancock, email response to Mayor Pete Lewis, Auburn, WA and Bob Cottrell, June 25, 2005.

"Most issues have multi-facets of dynamics, differing based upon the
various wants and needs and limited scope of the individual perspectives."
- Roger W Hancock, email to Bob Cottrell, Auburn, WA, June 26, 2005.

"A suggestion not presented is surely a failed suggestion."
- Roger W Hancock, email letter sent to Anthony W Pahl of International War Veteran's Poetry Archives, Australia, June 27, 2005.

"'I think therefore, I am,' but have I deceived myself?"
- Roger W Hancock, 2002 filler statement on the US Newspaper link page.

"Remember the good times and forgive the bad."
- Roger W Hancock, email letter to his niece, "Baby Girl" Sheena St. Charles, April 8, 2005.

"Fear is to learn, not to hide. Fear is the evil that keeps ones potential suppressed."
- Roger W Hancock, email letter to his niece, "Baby Girl" Sheena St. Charles, April 8, 2005.

"Fear will limit your reaching the sky.
Use that fear as a springboard to fly becoming greater than you imagined."
- Roger W Hancock, email letter to his niece, "Baby Girl" Sheena St. Charles, April 8, 2005.

"One cannot take issue with wrongs unknown unless another first makes known to him."

- Roger W Hancock, January 7, 2005 in an email to Bruce Phillips, Principal, Auburn Riverside High School, Auburn, WA.

"Life is not fair. Fairness does not produce stability."
- Roger W Hancock, November 12, 2004, in an email to Dave Zink, a self proclaimed socialist.

"Education expands ones horizon; when truth is not clouded by a closed mind."
- Roger W Hancock, October 28, 2004, on a reply to a Princeton University email requesting Removal from my Email List.

"To know to not to not do but cannot do if know not what."
Perhaps it means just as much as Franklin's, "A stitch in time saves nine." What stitch, what nine?
- Roger W Hancock, An email to Debbie Linse, a sister of Bible Chapel of Auburn, 2004.

"The values, which our Veterans have sacrificed, when taught to our young shall not fade."
- Roger W Hancock, Email, replying to third grade music teacher, Stephen Lehew, October 20, 2004

"When the children learn the value young, the value shall not deflate."
- Roger W Hancock, Email, replying to third grade music teacher, Stephen Lehew, October 20, 2004

"American and allied soldiers fight, die, and are maimed for continued liberty.
They fight for the freedom of our grandchildren and their children.
They fight for liberty."
- Roger W Hancock, Blog November 22, 2004

"Knowing is the beginning of Understanding."
- Roger W Hancock, 2004; from the Political Lesson page.

"Pacifism betrays the pacifist."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor, 2004

"The U.N. is the cover allowing evil nations legitimacy in a civilized society."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor October 4, 2004

"Peace with freedom can only be maintained by a free people
being willing to use force against threats to the peace."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor June 5, 2004

"When tyranny exists peace cannot"
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor, 2004

"We are a free country but not a 'free-for-all' country."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor May 15, 2004

"When my rights infringe upon your rights injustice occurs."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor May 15, 2004

"As we bend our Constitution to include that, which was never intended,
we jeopardize the freedoms long ago established."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor May 15, 2004

"That which has made this Country great is being tossed aside to tickle our individual fancies."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor May 15, 2004

"We are at liberty to 'responsibly' exercise our freedoms."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor May 15, 2004

"To remove Christ from the Christmas season offends American tradition."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor April 7, 2004

"Surely, if the founders of liberty were able to observe us today they would be restless with disbelief."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor August 26, 2004

"... the founding fathers had morals and believed morality would stand with common sense."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor August 26, 2004

"Compromise only weakens the [Republican] Party’s resolve and frustrates the grassroots."
- Roger W Hancock, Letters to the Editor, 2004

"Words when given from inspiration often live multiple lives."
- Roger W Hancock, Posting at www.AllPoetry.com ,

"The vocal define, the focal point."
- Roger W Hancock, 2004 filler statement, U.S. newspaper list

"Your voice with my voice, together is greater."
- Roger W Hancock, 2004 filler statement, U.S. newspaper list

"The one who has never written may be the one who writes best."
- Roger W Hancock, 2004 filler statement, WA newspaper list

"The basis for all thought must be founded in truth."
- Roger W Hancock, 2004 filler statement, WA newspaper list

"The message fails if it is not delivered."
- Roger W Hancock, 2003 filler statement, K.C. newspaper list

"The poet of my own poems know where I am coming from
and speaks to me from within my own mind."
- Roger W Hancock 09-30-2004, email to Terry Karkos, www.LivePoetSociety.com

"We, conservatives do not stand alone for we stand with the founding fathers."
- Roger W Hancock 09-28-2004, email to a Young Conservative Lady

"It is the ignorance that abounds within a man that manifests itself as bigotry."
- Roger W Hancock 09-14-2004, email to Rod Van Mechelen of Cowlitz Country

"Time will tell, it always does."
- Roger W Hancock 09-14-2004, email to Rod Van Mechelen of Cowlitz Country
Although I came up with this independently, I can hardly believe I was the first.

"Poetry is the song of the heart molded by the mind.
The mind takes the inward song of thought and models it into a poem."
- Roger W Hancock, 09-07-2004, simply thinking of what poetry is, and now posted here.

"To preserve the foundations of American liberty we must preserve our heritage.
It is through these landmarks, the symbols of freedom,
that our children learn the value of liberty."
- Roger W Hancock, 06-27-2002, Foundation Heritage; Presidents House in Philadelphia - Petition Archive; http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/controversy/write.htm

"It is important that each of us know our standing with God,
that our death be only a continuation of life."
- Roger W Hancock, in an Email to his brother, Ray Hancock, August, 2004

"Peace when left to its own device dies a slow demise."
- Roger W Hancock, written on a posting board at http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33788#33788
August, 2004

"Peace when left to it's own device, will live a slow demise."
"- Roger W Hancock, from the poem "Longing for Peace", July 22, 2004.

"It is only within Christ that all goes well even when all seems not."
- Roger W Hancock, Letter to a friend, 2004

"Pacifism does not protect against those who would threaten world peace."
- Roger W Hancock, letter to the editor, 2004

- Roger W Hancock, after studying the Democratic and Republican Platforms prior to becoming a Republican in 1988.

"Peace kept by force is no peace but peace without force is fragile."
- Roger W Hancock, June 5, 2004

"Matters of this life matter not at all when trust is upon Christ our Lord."
- Roger W Hancock, Letter to a friend, 2003 or 2004.

"Peace can only be achieved by understanding when all parties understand."
- Roger W Hancock, June 5, 2004

"Peace with freedom can only be maintained by a free people
being willing to use force against threats to the peace."
- Roger W Hancock, June 5, 2004

"Some say do away with [political] parties. It would not happen for coalitions would form to build power and effectively act as the party system does now. Conservatives would draw together and Liberals would draw together with the others becoming the ineffectual third parties. Thus no parties are still parties."
- Roger W Hancock, "Letter to the Editor" written June 11,2004

"When the Atheist perceives death as imminent he often abandons his faith."
- Roger W Hancock, 2004, a comment made to Dr. William Britt, of Auburn's Bible Chapel, after a Sunday Sermon.

"When I was apathetic and uninformed I was a Democrat."
- Roger W Hancock, 1990?, often included in his bio's.