Favorite Quotes
"America will
never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
"A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular
principles and methods of administration."
"Those who deny
freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
"Am I not destroying
my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Abraham Lincoln,
Indiana Hometown Republican Statesman
Greensburg
Board of
Works Meetings (Archive)
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The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Reagan, Republican President
We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.
C. S. Lewis
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Benjamin Franklin
What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville
"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."
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. "
"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.”
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