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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility
of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom,
go home from us in peace. We seek not your consul, nor your
arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your
chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget ye were
our countrymen." Samual Adams |
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"I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society
but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough,
the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them
by education." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) in 1820 |
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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is
big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history
shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." Thomas
Jefferson |
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one
word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks
equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and
servitude." Alexis de Tocqueville |
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"What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership,
it was communism" William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its
elements are hunger, envy, and death." Heinrich Heine |
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"I use the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century
sense... In current American usage it often means very much
the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of
leftists movements in the country, helped by the muddle-headedness
of many who believe in liberty, that 'liberal' has come to mean
the advocacy of almost every kind of government control"
Friedrich A. Hayek |
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"There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom
of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those
in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation." James
Madison |
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"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives
in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world,
precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic
turmoil to our people." Congressman Ron Paul |
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"America is great because America is good. When America
ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis
de Tocqueville |
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"Enslave the liberty of one human being and the liberties
of the world are put in peril." William Lloyd Garrison
(1805-1879) |
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"Liberty not only means that the individual has both the
opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must
bear the consequences of his actions. . . Liberty and responsibility
are inseparable." Friedrich Hayek, "The Sensory Order" |
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"Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish
in one." John F. Kennedy |
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"It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half
a world away, than by the oppression and discrimination a half
a block from home." Carl Rowan |
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"I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death
your right to say it." Voltaire |
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"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security.
When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but
for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for
was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote
themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment
on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the
the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that
a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always
followed by dictatorship." Alexander Fraser Tyler, "The
Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic" |
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"There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously
rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims."
Thomas Sowell |
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"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man
is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude
is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of
his guilt." John Philpot Curran |
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"Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given
welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people
no longer need it." - Rush Limbaugh |
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"In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the
rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first
time that a sitting president used the third derivative to advance
his case for reelection." Hugo Rossi |
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"There are severe limits to the good that the government
can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the
harm it can do." Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist |
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"Whoever claims the "right" to "redistribute"
the wealth produced by others is claiming the "right"
to treat human beings as chattel." Ayn Rand |
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"Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade
loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful
to avoid anger. �Trade makes men independent of one another
and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads
them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to
succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but
disinclined to revolution." Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy
in America", vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 21 (1840) |
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"We propose a five-word constitutional amendment: There
shall be open borders. People are the great resource, and so
long as we keep our economy free, more people means more growth,
the more the merrier. Study after study shows that even the
most recent immigrants give more than they take." Wall
Street Journal editorial |
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"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You
cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot further the brotherhood of many by encouraging class
hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You
cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You
cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative
and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for
them what they could and should do for themselves." Abraham
Lincoln |
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"Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual
revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends
to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting
it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in
many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end
which was not part of his intention." Adam Smith, Wealth
of Nations |
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"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of
both." James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union |
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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara
Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." Milton
Friedman (1912-) |
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those
who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such
laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants;
they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for
an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an
armed man." Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria |
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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our
enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
Joseph Stalin |
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"The usual road to slavery is that first they take away
your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all
they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it."
James A. Donald |
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"They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health
care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?" Paul
Harvey |
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"Opportunities multiply as they are seized. " Sun Tzu |
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"The country that draws a broad line between its fighting
men and its thinking men will find its fighting done by fools
and its thinking done by cowards." Sir William F. Butler |
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"Nothing in life is so exhilarating than to be shot at without
result." Sir Winston Churchill |
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"To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling
debauchery the soil of love." George Santayana (1863-1952) |
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"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language.
You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more,
you should never wish to do less." General Robert E. Lee |
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"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for
young men to die in." George McGovern (1922-) |
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"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're
in front of us, they're behind us....they can't get away this
time." Chesty Puller, USMC, when surrounded by 8 enemy divisions
during the Korean War. |
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"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing
you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded
you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
Colin Powell |
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"If your attack is going really well, you've walked into
an ambush." Hannibal |
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"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot, nor heard the
shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood,
more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." William
Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1897) |
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