Quotes
"Appeasement is feeding the dragon hoping he
will eat you last."
Winston
Churchill
"The
most terrifying words in the English language are:
I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
"A government big enough to give you everything you
want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson
"Let there be no change
[in Constitutional powers] by usurpation; for though
this, in one instance, may be the instrument of
good, it is the customary weapon by which free
governments are destroyed."
George Washington
"Any
society that would give up a little liberty to gain
a little security will deserve neither and lose
both."
Benjamin Franklin
"We cannot expect the
Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but
we can assist their elected leaders in giving
Americans small doses of socialism until they
suddenly awake to find they have Communism."
Soviet Leader
Nikita Khrushchev,
1959
"I am in politics
because of the conflict between good and evil, and I
believe that in the end good will triumph."
Margaret Thatcher
"Few men have virtue
to withstand the highest bidder."
George Washington
"A good plan violently
executed now is better than a perfect plan executed
next week."
George S. Patton
"I am concerned for
the security of our great Nation; not so much
because of any threat from without, but because of
the insidious forces working from within."
Douglas MacArthur
"When we get piled upon one another in large
cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as
Europe ."
Thomas Jefferson
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that
makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of
bravery and heroism."
Alexander Hamilton
"Government exists to protect us from each other.
Where government has gone beyond its limits is in
deciding to protect us from ourselves."
Ronald Reagan
"To
unequal privileges among members of the same society
the spirit of our nation is, with one accord,
adverse."
Thomas
Jefferson
"America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be
because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"The marvel of all history is
the patience with which men and women submit to
burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their
governments."
George Washington
"An
investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin
"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that
morality can be maintained without religion. Reason
and experience both forbid us to expect that
national morality can prevail in exclusion of
religious principle."
George Washington
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our
wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our
passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and
evidence."
John Adams
"Do
not separate text from historical background. If you
do, you will have perverted and subverted the
Constitution, which can only end in a distorted,
bastardized form of illegitimate government."
James Madison
"To
sin by silence when they should protest makes
cowards of men."
Abraham Lincoln
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will
abandon."
George Washington
"We
can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not
innocent."
Ronald Reagan
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the
language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was
the primary object."
Patrick Henry
"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise
too late."
Benjamin Franklin
"We will not waiver;
we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will
not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail."
George W.
Bush
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack
it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there
it is."
Winston Churchill
"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow
trouble."
George Washington
"What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in
any new branch of commerce when he knows not that
his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can
be executed?"
James Madison
"It
is fatal to enter any war without the will to win
it."
Douglas MacArthur
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and
everywhere restrains evil interference - they
deserve a place of honor with all that's good"
George Washington
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness,
only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it
yourself."
Benjamin Franklin
"What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that
great sense of optimism. He led by building on the
strengths of America, not running America down."
Rudy Giuliani
“Are
you better off today than you were $4 trillion ago?”
Rick Perry
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of
rapid growth."
George Washington
"Of those men who have
overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest
number have begun their career by paying an
obsequious court to the people, commencing
demagogues and ending tyrants."
Alexander Hamilton
"As a man is said to have a
right to his property, he may be equally said to
have a property in his rights."
James
Madison
"The object of war is not to die for your country
but to make the other bastard die for his."
George S. Patton
"A
pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty."
Winston Churchill
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is
necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in
the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy
state of things."
Winston Churchill
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened
danger and try to run away from it. If you do that,
you will double the danger. But if you meet it
promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the
danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
Winston Churchill
"America must not ignore the threat gathering
against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we
cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun
that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
George W. Bush
"With the privilege of
knowing of, swearing to, and living under our
Constitution, comes the responsibility of
maintaining and adhering to it."
Neil Turner
"The best defense against usurpatory government is
an assertive citizenry."
William F. Buckley,
Jr.
"Educate and inform
Everyone… They are the only sure reliance for the
preservation of our liberty."
Thomas
Jefferson
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in
it and hang on.”
Thomas
Jefferson
"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
Benjamin Franklin
"Error of Opinion may be tolerated where Reason is
left free to combat it."
Thomas Jefferson
"It
will be of little avail to the people that the laws
are made by men of their own choice if the laws be
so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so
incoherent that they cannot be understood."
James Madison
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the
only guardian of true liberty."
James Madison
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other
peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of
national survival when they prefer to be generous
with other people's freedom and security."
William F. Buckley,
Jr.
"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong."
Winston Churchill
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will
be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers
may be concealed from them."
Patrick Henry
"The spirit of resistance to government is so
valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be
always kept alive."
Thomas Jefferson
"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit
which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in
all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you
have planted the seeds of despotism around your own
doors."
Abraham Lincoln
"The God
who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time;
the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin
them."
Thomas
Jefferson
"The United States is
the only superpower. Today they lead the world.
Nobody has doubts about it, militarily, they also
lead economically, but they're getting weak. But
they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The
world has no leadership. The United States was
always the last resort and hope for all other
nations. There was the hope, whenever something was
going wrong, one could count on the United States.
Today, we lost that hope."
Lech Walesa
"The most pathetic
person in the world is someone who has sight but has
no vision."
Helen Keller
"If you will not fight
for the right when you can win without bloodshed, if
you will not fight when your victory will be sure
and not so costly, you may come to the moment when
you will have to fight with all the odds against you
and only a precarious chance of survival. There may
be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is
no chance of victory, because it is better to perish
than to live as slaves."
Winston Churchill
"For every
problem, there exists a solution...and at the
very least...an opportunity."
Michael McMillan
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who
died, rather we should Thank God that such men lived."
General George S. Patton
"Can the liberties of a
nation be thought secure when we have removed
their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds
of the people that these liberties are of the
gift of God? That they are not to be violated
but with His wrath?"
Thomas Jefferson
"The doorstep to the
temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own
ignorance."
Benjamin
Franklin
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other
views, but then are shocked and offended to discover
that there are other views."
William F. Buckley,
Jr.
"I would rather be
exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
liberty than to those attending too small a degree
of it."
Thomas
Jefferson
"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the
organ grinder is in the room."
Winston Churchill
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won
by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of
the man who leads that gains the victory."
George S. Patton
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin
"By
failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
Benjamin Franklin
"I
conceive that the great part of the miseries of
mankind are brought upon them by false estimates
they have made of the value of things."
Benjamin Franklin
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools,
that don't have brains enough to be honest."
Benjamin Franklin
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no
sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his
opinions, his person, his faculties, or his
possessions."
James Madison
“Nobody can acquire
honor by doing what is wrong”
Thomas Jefferson
"How far you can go without destroying from within
what you are trying to defend from without?"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A
man does what he must - in spite of personal
consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and
pressures - and that is the basis of all human
morality."
Winston Churchill
"Three groups spend other people's money: children,
thieves, politicians. All three need supervision."
Dick Armey
"The chief function of the body is to carry the
brain around."
Thomas A. Edison
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it
to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever
apologize for anything."
Harry S. Truman
"The people are the only legitimate fountain of
power, and it is from them that the constitutional
charter, under which the several branches of
government hold their power, is derived."
James Madison
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a
free government ought to be to trust no man living
with power to endanger the public liberty."
John Adams
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it
to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever
apologize for anything."
Harry S. Truman
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
Alexander Hamilton
"It
is difficult to make our material condition better
by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by
bad laws."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The essence of Government is power; and power,
lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be
liable to abuse."
James Madison
"He
that is good for making excuses is seldom good for
anything else."
Benjamin Franklin
"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited,
federal government."
Alexander Hamilton
"We
must reject the idea that every time a law's broken,
society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is
time to restore the American precept that each
individual is accountable for his actions."
Ronald Reagan
"By
rendering the labor of one, the property of the
other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one
side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred
and revolt."
James Madison
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than
to speak out and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln
"Some people regard private enterprise as a
predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a
cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a
healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
Winston Churchill
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of
another, but let him work diligently and build one
for himself, thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built."
Abraham Lincoln
"We
will always remember. We will always be proud. We
will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
Ronald Reagan
"Is
life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at
the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty
God! I know not what course others may take, but as
for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
"Well, the trouble
with our liberal friends is not that they are
ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so."
Ronald Reagan
"Courage is going from
failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill
"Nearly all men can
stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power."
Abraham
Lincoln
"There is no substitute for victory."
Douglas MacArthur
"As an American I am
not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace
Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but
that America gave him the White House based on the
same credentials."
Newt Gingrich
"The history of
government management of money has, except for a few
short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and
deception."
Friedrich Hayek
"Words may show a
man's wit but actions his meaning."
Benjamin
Franklin
"Individual rights are
not subject to a public vote; a majority has no
right to vote away the rights of a minority; the
political function of rights is precisely to protect
minorities from oppression by majorities (and the
smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
Ayn Rand
"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his
will."
Alexander Hamilton
"He that raises a
large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe
them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he
stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
Benjamin
Franklin
''Life's tough... it's even tougher if
you're stupid.''
John Wayne
"How few there are who have courage enough to own
their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
Benjamin Franklin
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in
importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
George Washington
"[W]hen the resolution of
enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the
British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who
was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people;
that it was the best and most effectual way to
enslave them; but that they should not do it openly,
but weaken them, and let them sink gradually."
George Mason
"Americans have the right and advantage of being
armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose
governments are afraid to trust the people with
arms."
James Madison
"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to
prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is
to dislodge them after they have got possession."
George Washington
"It has long, however,
been my opinion and I have never shrunk from its
expression that the germ of dissolution of our
federal government is in the constitution of
the federal judiciary -- working like gravity by
night and by day, gaining a little today and a
little tomorrow and advancing the noiseless step
like a thief over the field of jurisprudence until
all shall be usurped."
Thomas Jefferson
(Predicting Judicial Activism)
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to
succeed is more important than any other."
Abraham Lincoln
"We should not look
back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past
errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly
bought experience."
George
Washington
"If you don't
read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do
read the newspaper you are misinformed."
Mark Twain
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill
Pericles
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato
"The invisible hand of freedom taking on the visible
foot of government."
Dick Armey
"Life is ten percent what
you make it and ninety percent how you take it."
Benjamin Franklin
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard
to protect liberty when
the government's purposes are beneficent... The
greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious
encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but
without understanding."
Louis Brandeis
Supreme Court Justice
"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose
your words, for they become actions. Understand your
actions, for they become habits. Study your habits,
for they will become your character. Develop your
character, for it becomes your destiny."
Author Unknown
"In Republics, the great danger is, that the
majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of
the minority."
James Madison
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot
be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them
alone."
Ayn Rand
"Back in the thirties we were told we must
collectivize the nation because the people were so
poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the
nation because the people are so rich."
William F. Buckley,
Jr.
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of
sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and
division of society."
John Adams
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and
some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool
all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln
"I
do not fear an army of lions if they are led by a
lamb. I do fear an army of sheep if they are led by
a lion."
Alexander the Great
"Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to
the increased costs of healthcare, goods and
services to consumers.
"
Charles W.
Pickering
"Truth will ultimately prevail where
there is pains to bring it to light."
George Washington
"When one door closes
another door opens; but we so often look so long
and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we
do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander
Graham Bell
"He who is required
by the necessity of his position to speak the
highest things is compelled by the same
necessity to exemplify the highest things."
Gregory the Great
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
Benjamin Franklin
"Criticism is prejudice
made possible"
H. L. Mencken
"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes
them."
Ronald Reagan
"Concentrated power has always been the
enemy of liberty."
Ronald Reagan
"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as
possible, the need for its own existence."
Ronald Reagan
"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long
endure."
Ronald Reagan
"You can tell allot about a fellow's character by
his way of eating jellybeans."
Ronald Reagan
"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about
because the U.S. was too strong."
Ronald Reagan
"One
way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let
the government run it."
Ronald Reagan
"People do not make wars; governments do."
Ronald Reagan
"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job.
Depression is when you lose yours."
Ronald Reagan
"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made
a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
Ronald Reagan
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of
July, but the democrats believe every day is April
15."
Ronald Reagan
"Protecting the rights of even the least individual
among us is basically the only excuse the government
has for even existing."
Ronald Reagan
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest
profession. I have come to realize that it bears a
very close resemblance to the first."
Ronald Reagan
"The problem is not that people are taxed too
little, the problem is that government spends too
much."
Ronald Reagan
"You
and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will
preserve for our children this, the last best hope
of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take
the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If
we fail, at least let our children and our
children's children say of us we justified our brief
moment here. We did all that could be done."
Ronald Reagan
"Socialism only works in two
places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell
where they already have it."
Ronald Reagan
"We who live in free market societies believe that
growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment,
are created from the bottom up, not the government
down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to
invent and create, only when individuals are given a
personal stake in deciding economic policies and
benefitting from their success -- only then can
societies remain economically alive, dynamic,
progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the
one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period
contradicting the notion that rigid government
controls are essential to economic development."
Ronald Reagan
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic
liberty."
Margaret Thatcher
"There
is no such thing as society: there are individual
men and women, and there are families."
Margaret Thatcher
"To me, consensus seems to be the process of
abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and
policies. So it is something in which no one
believes and to which no one objects."
Margaret Thatcher
"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince
every man that actions, not words, are the true
criterion of the attachment of friends."
George Washington
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you
esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone
than in bad company."
George Washington
H. L. Mencken
"We have a system that
increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work."
Milton
Friedman
"All that is necessary
for the triumph of evil is that good men do
nothing."
Edmund Burke
So that none can say “I did not know!”
So that none can say “I was just following orders.”
(Nuremberg Trials,
1945-46, Nuremberg, Germany)
“For what avail the plough
or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Guard with jealous
attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who
approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give
up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
Patrick Henry
"Kites rise highest
against the wind - not with it."
Winston Churchill
“Liberty is the right to
choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”
Author Unknown
"It is inaccurate to
say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor
of common sense, common honesty and common decency.
This makes me ineligible for public office."
H. L. Mencken
"Giving every man a
vote has no more made men wise than Christianity has
made them good."
H. L. Mencken
"Any person who
afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared
to see them misunderstood."
H. L. Mencken
"Ability is what you're
capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz
"I may be drunk, Miss,
but in the morning I will be sober and you will
still be ugly."
Winston Churchill
"Guard against the
impostures of pretended patriotism."
George Washington
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.
One is by the sword, the other is by debt."
John Adams
"Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with
him while he is right and PART with him when he goes
wrong."
Abraham Lincoln
"Do what you can, with
what you have, where you are."
Theodore
Roosevelt
"I
hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to
maintain what I consider the most enviable of all
titles, the character of an honest man."
George Washington
“Help the Cubans to the utmost” counseling
his successor while handing over the reins. “We
cannot let Castro's government go on.”
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower,
1961
"Do
not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force
is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity
are good motives."
Ayn Rand
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of
privacy. The savage's whole existence is public,
ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the
process of setting man free from men."
Ayn Rand
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they
can prevent the government from wasting the labors
of the people under the pretense of taking care of
them."
Thomas
Jefferson
"He who uses the
office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against
them is a thief."
Jose Marti
"The dogmas of the
quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The
occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must
rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we
must think anew and act anew."
Abraham Lincoln
"If you set out to be
liked, you would be prepared to compromise on
anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
Margaret Thatcher
"Most
Americans know that the government competes with the
private sector
the way an
alligator competes with
a duck.
It
consumes it."
Mike Pence
"Government "help" to
business is just as disastrous as government
persecution... the only way a government can be of
service to national prosperity is by keeping its
hands off."
Ayn Rand
"The party in power,
like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will
quickly fall."
Davy Crockett
"Some men succeed by what
they know; some by what they do; and a few by what
they are."
Elbert
Hubbard
"Government is not
reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire,
it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington
"If you are going
through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
"Necessity is always the justification that tyrants
give."
Mike Munger
"Of
liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of
its extent, it is unobstructed action according to
our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed
action according to our will within limits drawn
around us by the equal rights of others. I do not
add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is
often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it
violates the right of an individual."
Thomas
Jefferson
"Labor to keep alive
in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,
called conscience."
George Washington
"Approximately 80% of
our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released
by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting
and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made
sources."
Ronald Reagan
"We can forgive the
Arabs for killing our children. We cannot
forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.
We will only have peace with the Arabs when they
love their children more than they hate us."
Golda Meir
"A simple way
to take measure of a country is to look at how many
want in... And
how many want out."
Tony Blair
"The problem with socialism is that you
eventually run out of other people's money?"
Margaret Thatcher
"Individual rights are
not subject to a public vote; a majority has no
right to vote away the rights of a minority; the
political function of rights is precisely to protect
minorities from oppression by majorities (and the
smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
Ayn Rand
"The democracy will
cease to exist when you take away from those who are
willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson
"An
insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and
death, but innate instinct leads to
self-preservation and life."
Jose Marti
"Oh Liberty, Liberty,
your waters appease the thirst of those who die of
hunger. Don't see in death the end of your dreams
and ideals."
Dr. Claudio F.
Benedi
"In
the first place, we should insist that if the
immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an
American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for
it is an outrage to discriminate against any such
man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But
this is predicated upon the person's becoming in
every facet an American, and nothing but an
American...There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something
else also, isn't an American at all. We have room
for but one flag, the American flag... We have room
for but one language here, and that is the English
language.. and we have room for but one sole loyalty
and that is a loyalty to the American people."
"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice,
there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings.
Where there's service, there's someone being served.
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of
slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."
Ayn Rand
"Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent
as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine
this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly
everything he needs to ruin
Thomas Sowell
"Nothing in life just
happens. You have to have the stamina to meet the
obstacles and overcome
them."
Golda Meir
"We are, always, reminded of the old saw:
What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the
William F.
Buckley Jr.
"Government's
view of the economy could be summed up in a few
short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps
moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,
subsidize it."
Ronald Reagan
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own
debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on
would save one-half the wars of the world."
Thomas Jefferson
"What incredible arrogance to believe that we limited human beings can destroy that which we cannot even begin to understand -- much less create on our own -- and that is earth and all of its glories.
Rush Limbaugh
"We
are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate
inversion: the stage where the government is free to
do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act
only by permission; which is the stage of the
darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule
by brute force."
Ayn Rand
“Understanding future warfare is the most
important responsibility of those who must defend a
nation from future enemies!”
Major General
Perry M. Smith
"I can hear you,
the rest of the world can hear you and the
people who knocked these buildings down will
hear all of us soon.
"
President George
W. Bush
At site of the World
Trade Center Terrorist attack after 9-11-2001
"I believe there
are more instances of the abridgement of the
freedom of the people by gradual and silent
encroachments of those in power than by violent
and sudden usurpations."
James Madison,
1788
"Extremism in the
defense of liberty is no vice."
Senator Barry Goldwater
"Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to
their level and beat you with experience."
Author Unknown
"The arrogance of officialdom
should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to
foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
Cicero,
55 BC
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the
bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and
handed on for them to do the same."
Ronald Reagan
"Insanity is doing the
same thing over and over and expecting different
results."
Albert Einstein
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you
were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
"If ye love wealth
better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom, go
home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or
arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel
Adams
Speech at the
Philadelphia State House on August 1, 1776
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is
right and the other is wrong, but the middle is
always evil."
Ayn Rand
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket
and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
Winston
Churchill
“Congressmen who willfully take actions during
wartime that damages morale and undermine the
military are saboteurs and should be arrested,
quickly tried and hanged!!!"
Abraham Lincoln
"The
logical end to
defensive warfare is surrender."
Napoleon
Bonaparte
"Mail your packages early so the post office can
lose them in time for Christmas."
Johnny Carson
"Germany will militarize herself out of existence,
England will expand herself out of existence, and
America will spend herself out of existence."
Lenin,
1917
"Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of
everybody else."
Frederic Bastiat
Economist (1801-1850)
"The
American people will never knowingly adopt
socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism", they
will adopt every fragment of the socialist program,
until one day America will be a socialist nation,
without knowing how it happened." He went on to say:
"I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate
for the Socialist Party.
The Democratic Party
has adopted our platform."
Norman Matton
Thomas,
1944
Leading
American socialist, pacifist, and six-time
presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of
America. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister
in 1911. As a candidate for President of the U. S.,
Norman Thomas made the statement above.
"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by
legislating the wealthy
out of
prosperity. What one person receives without working
for, another person must
work for without receiving. The government cannot
give to anybody anything that the government does
not first take from somebody else. When half of the
people get the idea that they do not have to work
because the other half is going to take care of
them, and when the other half gets the idea that it
does no good to work because somebody else is going
to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is
the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot
multiply wealth by dividing it."
Adrian Rogers,
1931
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and
report the facts. "
Will
Benjamin
Franklin
"The personal right to acquire property, which is a
natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a
right to protection, as a social right."
James Madison
"If
the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and
silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
"No
arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world,
is as formidable as the will and moral courage of
free men and women."
Ronald Reagan
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
Benjamin Franklin
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
George S. Patton
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves
and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
James
Bovard
Civil Libertarian (1994)
"We are a nation that has a government - not the
other way around. And this makes us special among
the nations of the Earth. Our government has
no power except that granted it by the people.
It is time to check and reverse the growth of
government, which shows signs of having grown beyond
the consent of the governed."
Ronald Reagan
Inaugural
Address, January 20, 1981
"If I must choose between
righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."
Theodore
Roosevelt
"When people fear their government, there is
tyranny. When government fears the people,
there is liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"Giving money and power to government is like giving
whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P.J. O'Rourke
Civil
Libertarian
"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
Benjamin Franklin
"The trouble with our
liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's
just that they know so much that isn't so."
Ronald Reagan
"The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that
truth does not matter so long as there is
reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in
countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often
enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the
people."
Winston
Churchill
"A liberal is someone
who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt
he proposes to pay off with your money."
G. Gordon Liddy
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives
itself."
Abraham Lincoln
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can
always depend on the support of Paul."
George
Bernard Shaw
"Feed your soul with the perfection of your life."
Dr. Claudio F. Benedi
"I tell you it's no use arguing with a
communist. It's no good trying to convert a
communist or persuade him. You can only deal with
him on the following basis...you can only do it by
having superior force on your side on the matter in
question --and they must also be convinced that you
will use --- you will not hesitate to use -- those
forces , if necessary, in the most ruthless manner.
You have not only to convince a communist government
that you have a superior force -- that they are
confronted by superior force--but that you are not
restrained by any moral consideration, if the case
arose , from using that force with complete material
ruthlessness. And that is the greatest chance of
peace, the surest road to peace."
Winston
Churchill
March 25, 1949
"The inherent vice of
capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal
sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
"In general, the art of government consists of
taking as much money as possible from one party of
the citizens to give to the other."
Voltaire,
1764
"Just because you do not take an interest in
politics doesn't mean politics won't take an
interest in you!"
Pericles,
430 B.C.
"The only difference between a tax man and a
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the
skin."
Mark Twain
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong,
wrong will generally be done.
James Madison
"We the people are the rightful masters of both
Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the
Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert
the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln
"The ultimate result of
shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill
the world with fools."
Herbert Spencer
English
Philosopher (1820-1903)
"What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians."
Edward Langley
Artist
(1928-1995)
"There is not a more important and
fundamental principle in legislation, than that the
ways and means ought always to face the public
engagements; that our appropriations should ever go
hand in hand with our promises. To say that the
United States should be answerable for twenty-five
millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways
and means can be provided, and without knowing
whether those who are to succeed us will think with
us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable.
Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public
faith in a manner contrary to every idea of
prudence."
Speech in Congress, 22 April 1790
"In great contests
each party claims to act in accordance with the will
of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."
Abraham Lincoln
"The time is near at
hand which must determine whether Americans are to
be free men or slaves."
George Washington
"No free man shall
ever be debarred the use of arms."
Thomas Jefferson
"Whether in chains or
in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
Douglas MacArthur
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait
until you see what it costs when it's free!"
P.J. O'Rourke
"Take time for all
things: great haste makes great waste."
Benjamin Franklin
"The government is like
a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at
one end and no responsibility at the other."
Ronald Reagan
"The
people will save their government, if the government
itself will allow them."
Abraham Lincoln
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the
right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to
protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
"To
compel a man to furnish contributions of money for
the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and
abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."
Thomas Jefferson
You cannot help the poor by destroying
the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by
weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by
discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by
pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of
man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage
by taking away men's initiative and
independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing
for them, what they could and should do for
themselves.
William John Henry Boetcker
Thomas Jefferson
Ronald Reagan