"Government is not the solution. Government is the problem." -Ronald Reagan
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help" -Ronald Reagan
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for lunch." -Benjamin Franklin
“It is from within, among yourselves---from corruption, from disappointed ambition and INORDINATE THIRST FOR POWER---that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. --Andrew Jackson Farewell address March 4, 1837
The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebearers fought - are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. -John F. kennedy Inaugural address 1961
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. -John F. Kennedy
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." -John F. Kennedy
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. -Voltaire
"All men having power ought to be mistrusted" -James Madison
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or not cause for declaring war." -James Madison
"if Man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?" -James Madison
"If tyranny and oppersion come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -James Madison
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of of tyranny at home." -James Madison
All the spiritual and material achievments of the west were the result of the idea of liberty" -Ludwig vonMises
"Government is essentially the negation of liberty" -Ludwig vonMises
Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny, or private self defense.
--John Adams
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but the newspapers. --Thomas Jefferson
The world is not the way they tell you it is. --Adam Smith
War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength. --George Orwell
The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency. --Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was that things were as bad as we’d been saying they were. --John F Kennedy
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
--Robert E. Lee
A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world of being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. --Dresden James
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
--George Burns
While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued: but when once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. --Samual Adams
In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of a huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 16, 1961
They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
--Benjamin Franklin
A society that will trade a little order for a little freedom will lose both, and deserve neither.
--Thomas Jefferson
There will be found to exist at all times an imperious necessity for restraining all the functionaries of the Government within the range of their respective powers thereby preserving a just balance between the powers granted to this Government and those reserved to the States and to the people.
--President John Tyler
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! --Patrick Henry
A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings…unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible - we have it all, or we are not free.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.
--Ronald Reagan
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end. --Lord Acton, The History of Freedom 1907
If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. ~Lindsey Nelson
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~Author Unknown
"The Direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations" -David Friedman
