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Famous Quotes
Here is a list of famous and not so
famous quotes. Don't let those who would re-write history deprive you of
the truth!
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"If a government
were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years, they'd have a
shortage of sand."
- Milton Friedman
"In
any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual
liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."
- Kathleen
Norris
"A silent
majority and government by the people is incompatible." -
Tom Hayden
"The government's
view of the economy can 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
"Fifty-one
percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress
minorities and still remain democratic."
- Erik von
Kuehnelt-Leddihn
"As government
grows, freedom recedes." -
Thomas Jefferson
Government
"There is but one
element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring
all governments. For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she
wills it. For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills
it." - John Adams
"The greatest
glory of the American Revolution was this: It connected in one
indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles
of Christianity."
- John Quincy Adams
"You need only
reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a
dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases
which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
- Charles Austin Beard
"Any man
who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is
over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Winston Churchill, Sir
"The
inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
- Winston Churchill, Sir
"You know the one
thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their
fair say."
- President William Jefferson
Clinton 5/29/93
"A people
that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"They that
give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
"If a government
were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years, they'd have a
shortage of sand."
- Milton Friedman
"The government
solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
- Milton Friedman
"A
government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to
take it all away."
-Barry Goldwater
"A silent
majority and government by the people is incompatible." -
Tom Hayden
"If there
is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for
attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not
free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we
hate."
-Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A society
of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."
-Bertrand deJouvenal
"The price
of freedom is eternal vigilance." -
Thomas Jefferson
"Resistance to
tyrants is obedience to God." -
Thomas Jefferson
"When the
government fears the People, that is Liberty. When the People fear the
Government, that is tyranny." -Thomas
Jefferson
"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
"As government
grows, freedom recedes." -
Thomas Jefferson
"People demand
freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they
seldom use."
- Kierkegaard
"Fifty-one
percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress
minorities and still remain democratic."
- Erik von
Kuehnelt-Leddihn
"We the People
are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow
the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the
Constitution"
-
Abraham Lincoln
"Nearly all
men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give
him power."
-Abraham Lincoln
"If Karl, instead
of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it, it would have been
much better." - Karl Marx 's
Mother
"In
any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual
liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."
- Kathleen
Norris
"The object of
war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for
his."
- George S. Patton, General
"One of the
penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors."
- Plato
"The government's
view of the economy can 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
"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
"To educate a man
in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society"
- Theodore Roosevelt
"A
government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support
of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Mercy to the
guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -
Adam Smith
"...to increase
it’s wealth, a nation must increase its productivity." -
Adam Smith
"A leader
in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a
leader."
- Harry S. Truman
"Wherever you
have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." -
Harry S. Truman
"To be prepared
for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
- George Washington
"Government, even
in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an
intolerable one." -
Thomas Paine
Guns & Gun
Control
"Expecting a
carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a
gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is
taking up two parking spaces."
- Joseph T. Chew
"Among the many
misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of
depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest" -
Mahatma Gandhi
"An armed society
is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his
acts with his life." - Robert
A. Heinlein
"Are we at last
brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be
trusted with arms for our defense?" -
Patrick Henry
"The 2nd
amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear
arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the
People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." -
Ken Konecki
"Since Florida
has enacted their concealed carry law, the Florida murder rate has dropped
by 29%. Nationwide, the murder rate rose 11% over the same period..."
- 1994 FBI crime data from ABC news
3/12/95
"Every good
communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a
gun. - Mao Tse Tung
"This year will
go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun
registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the
world will follow our lead into the future!" -
Adolf Hitler, 1935
"The House
passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out.
I'm just so thrilled and excited. "The sale of guns must stop.
Halfway measures are not enough."
- Sarah Brady July 1, 1988
"...ordinary
citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the
State."
- Heinrich Himmler
Translated from Latin:
"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's
hand." - Seneca
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