Notable Quotes

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." [Thomas Jefferson]

"A government that is large enough to supply everything you need is large enough to take everything you have." [Thomas Jefferson]

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it." [Abraham Lincoln]

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." [Daniel Webster]

"The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself." [John Adams]

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." [H.L. Mencken]

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." [Samuel Adams]

"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money." [Joseph Sobran]

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think." [Jean de La Bruyre]

"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" [Alan Keyes]

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense." [Will Rogers](on liberals)

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. [Robert A. Heinlein]

"America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way." [Ayn Rand]

"In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." [Voltaire]

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights. [H.L. Mencken]

"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents "interests, " I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." [Barry Goldwater]

"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" [Dostoevsky’s 'Grand Inquisitor']

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation of all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." [Teddy Roosevelt]

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. [Aristotle]

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. [Ambrose Bierce]

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. [Thurgood Marshall]

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. [Plato]

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. [Daniel Webster]

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. [John Adams]

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. [John Adams]

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]

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.'' [John Adams]

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war. [George S. Patton]

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]

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.
[Ronald Reagan]

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. [Ronald Reagan]

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]

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. [Ronald Reagan]

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. [Ronald Reagan]

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! [Ronald Reagan]

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]

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. [Voltaire]


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