"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men
of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
( Justice Louis D. Brandeis )
"None of the extraordinary things about our country are gifts of government.
They are the accomplishments of free people in a free society. They are
achievements, not entitlements - and are sweeter for that fact. They result
when men and women live in obedience to their conscience, not to the state.
All our efforts as Republicans are guided by the fixed star of this single
principle: that freedom always exceeds our highest expectations."
( From the Preamble to the 1996 Republican Platform )
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny
is no virtue."
( Barry Goldwater )
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long
and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
( Winston Churchill )
"Being liberal means being willing to give away something you have. Being a
Liberal means being willing, even anxious, to give away something someone
else has."
( Cooper Camp, from the National Review )
"If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the
Constitution. It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's
statecraft. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone
directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles
beginning with the word National'."
( George Will )
"... Perhaps of even greater significance is the continuous and profound
distrust of science and technology that the environmental movement
displays. The environmental movement maintains that science and technology
cannot be relied upon to build a safe atomic power plant, to produce a
pesticide that is safe, or even bake a loaf of bread that is safe, if that
loaf of bread contains chemical preservatives. When it comes to global
warming, however, it turns out that there is one area in which the
environmental movement displays the most breathtaking confidence in the
reliability of science and technology, an area in which, until recently, no
one -- even the staunchest supporters of science and technology -- had ever
thought to assert very much confidence at all. The one thing, the
environmental movement holds, that science and technology can do so well
that we are entitled to have unlimited confidence in them, is FORECAST THE
WEATHER! -- for the next one hundred years..."
( George Reisman, "The Toxicity of Environmentalism" )
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise
of fighting a foreign enemy."
( James Madison )
"I'm a staunch Independant. Every time I think I am a Republican, they
do something greedy, and every time I think I am a Democrat, they go
and do someting stupid."
( Jay Leno, _60 Minutes_ interview 3/15/92 )
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
The inherent virture of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
( Sir Winston Churchill )
"If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law, it
invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy."
( Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis )
"We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of
the American people."
( Senator Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia )
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and
include all men capable of bearing arms...To preserve liberty it is
essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be
taught alike... how to use them.
( Richard Henry Lee )
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first."
( Mark Twain )
"In every American community you have varying shades of political
opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken
group on many subjects - ten degrees to the left of center in good
times, and ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them
personally."
( Phil Ochs )
"I don't mind forcing the wealthy to pay more than their fair share."
( Senator Borden )
"Democracy without morality is impossible."
( Jack Kemp )
"When Clinton said he was going to create 8 million new jobs, I didn't
think they were all going to be tax collectors."
( Jay Leno )
"This week there has been rather a clatter of campaign promises being
tossed out the window."
( Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-NY )
"Many signs point to the possibility that the Earth may be heading
for another ice age."
( NY Times, 8-14-75 )
"We must prepare for the next ice age."
( Science Digest, 2-73 )
"Hundreds of millions of people will soon perish in smog disasters in
New York and Los Angeles...the oceans will die of DDT poisoning by
1979...the U.S. life expectancy will drop to 42 years by 1980 due to
cancer epidemics."
( Paul Ehrlich, 1969 )
A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality!
( john@anasazi.com [John Moore] )
And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the
future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the
boldness to face them, face them square.
( Governor Adlai Stevenson )
Definition of fair: spread the misery, no one gets what they want,
everything is homogenized down to the lowest vanilla common denominator.
( sanchezp@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu [Paul J. Sanchez] )
I don't want to be THE president, but I would like to have A president.
( Rush Limbaugh )
"No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation
(state or national) because this is a religious people . . . This is a
Christian nation."
( United States Supreme Court, 1892 )
"Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present
republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from
them, must fall with them."
( Jedediah More [founding educator] )
"Congress giveth and Congress taketh away. Cursed be the name of
Congress."
( Herald Times editorial )
"To oppose new OSHA regulations is the equivalent of being accused of
wife beating. . . . In the frenzy of Governmental control, all sense
of logic and balance has been lost.."
( Unknown U.S. Congressman )
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing."
( Edmund Burke )
"Most of the evidence for the existence or nonexistence of
bio-magnification (pesticides moving up the food chain) within aquatic
food webs has come from highly circumstantial and/or marginally
relevant data."
( Dr. Leonard Flynn )
"You can either have jobs or regulations, but both cannot exist
together."
( Representative Tom DeLay [R-TX] )
Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
"We would like to say that those guys in our legislature tax our patience,
but we don't want to give them any ideas."
( Herm Albright )
"Politicians are like diapers. They both should be changed often. And
for the same reason."
( Quoted by Tim Blair in San Diego Union-Tribune )
"Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has
to pay as he comes and goes."
( O.A. Battista )
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better
to change the locks."
( Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate )
"Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve
some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no
longer need it."
( Jack Kemp )
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to
say it."
( Voltaire )
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
( George Bernard Shaw )
"The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15
years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than
three. We've got that backward."
( Oliver North )
"I think we may be the only great country in the world moving toward
great socialism."
( Ross Perot )
"A policeman's job is only easy in a police state."
( Orson Welles )
"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to
moral decay have not passed into a political and economic decline.
There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral
lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national
disaster."
( Douglas MacArthur )
"A man who neglects his duty as a citizen is not entitled to his rights
as a citizen."
( Tiorio )
"Never forget, America, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know
you're a practical people and, like others, I have marveled at your
factories, and skyscrapers and your arsenals. But underlying
everything else is the fact that America began as God-loving,
God-fearing and God-worshiping people. It is this spirit that makes
America invincible. May God keep you always, and may you always keep
God."
( General Carlos P. Romulo, a Philippine general returning home after
spending 17 years in America. )
"Let each and every one of us remember that liberty is a gift not
lightly given; that we, within ourselves must preserve for generations
yet unborn a vision of brotherhood among men, until one day all the
world shall be ready to share it."
( Fredrick S. Wilson )
"We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is
ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it."
( H.L. Mencken )
"A day, an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity of
bondage."
( Joseph Addinson )
"I heard that the government wants to put a tax on the mathematically
ignorant. Funny, I thought that's what the lottery was!"
( Gallagher )
"The democrats are the party of Washington. They are part of the
bureaucracy. They are the party of the special interests. They are
the pro-tax party."
"If a candidate cannot keep his marriage vows, how can you expect him to keep
his campaign promises?"
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift."
( Gov. Robert P. Casey [D - PA] )
( Mike Stimpson )
"You cannot help small men by tearing down big men."
"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong."
"You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer."
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich."
"You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn."
"You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred."
"You cannot establish security on borrowed money."
"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's
initiative and independence."
"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and
should do for themselves."
( Reverend William J.H. Boetcker -- commonly misattributed to Abe Lincoln )
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