Steve Southard:  

Steve is from St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Steve's schools include South Lake High School. Music Steve likes includes MIX PACK, Lonesome County, Anthem Alone. Movies Steve likes include Blade Runner, Clark Griswold. TV shows Steve likes include FUEL TV. One of Steve's favorite quotes is:""I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." James Madison "The Second [Fourth] Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever" - John Adams "Experts often possess more data than judgment." Colin Powell "If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics." Will Rogers "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained - it must not break - our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stre[t]ching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address. "This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Winston Churchill "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - CS Lewis "I believe banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson, 1802 "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - HL Mencken "The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." - Theodore Roosevelt Henry David Thoreau: - "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each others' eyes for an instant?" - "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." - "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves" - "If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." Jesus: Matthew 10:8 "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give." AND the Golden Rule: Matthew 7:12 "Do to others what you would have them do to you." "Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little." - Buddha "Be the change you wish to see in the world" - Ghandi ON THE CONCEPT OF "PAY IT FORWARD" - The expression "pay it forward" is used to describe the concept of asking that a good turn be repaid by having it done to others instead. "I do not pretend t...Expand for more