"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
Thomas Jefferson

"The United States is the only superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it, militarily, they also lead economically, but they're getting weak. But they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope."
Lech Walesa

"If you will not fight for the right when you can win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Winston Churchill

"[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually."
George Mason

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
James Madison

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
George Washington

"It has long, however, been my opinion and I have never shrunk from its expression that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary -- working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow and advancing the noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisprudence until all shall be usurped."
Thomas Jefferson
(Predicting Judicial Activism)

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
Abraham Lincoln

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
George Washington

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Jefferson

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
Mark Twain 

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
Mark Twain 

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Mark Twain 

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything"
Mark Twain 

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
Pericles

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato

"The invisible hand of freedom taking on the visible foot of government."
Dick Armey

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
Og Mandino

"If you could reason with a democrat, there wouldn't be any democrats"
Clint Eastwood

 "A liberal paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities....and only Law Enforcement has guns.  Believe it or not, such a place indeed exists....it's called prison."
Sheriff Joe Arpaio

"Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it."
Benjamin Franklin

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent... The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
Louis Brandeis
Supreme Court Justice

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny."
Author Unknown

"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."
James Madison

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."
Ayn Rand

"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
John Adams

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln

"I do not fear an army of lions if they are led by a lamb. I do fear an army of sheep if they are led by a lion."
Alexander the Great

"Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers. "
Charles W. Pickering

"The world is fighting Islamic terrorism, starvation, and disease, but democrats are fighting for men to pee in the ladies' room."
James Woods

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
George Washington

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander Graham Bell

"He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things."
Gregory the Great

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize?”
Voltaire

"When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear."
Thomas Sowell

"One today is worth two tomorrows."
Benjamin Franklin

"Ignorant citizens elect ignorant leaders, it's as simple as that"
George Carlin

"Criticism is prejudice made possible"
H. L. Mencken

"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
Ronald Reagan

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
Ronald Reagan

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
Ronald Reagan

"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."
Ronald Reagan

"You can tell allot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
Ronald Reagan

"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
Ronald Reagan

"People do not make wars; governments do."
Ronald Reagan

"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."
Ronald Reagan

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
Ronald Reagan

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."
Ronald Reagan

"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing."
Ronald Reagan

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
Ronald Reagan

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
Ronald Reagan

"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
Ronald Reagan

"The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."
Ronald Reagan
January 28, 1986

"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it."
Ronald Reagan

"We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development."
Ronald Reagan

"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
Margaret Thatcher

"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."
Margaret Thatcher

"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."
Margaret Thatcher

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
George Washington

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company."
George Washington

"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. "
H. L. Mencken

“Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.”
Jack Kemp

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work."
Milton Friedman

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts."
Edmund Burke

So that none can say “I did not know!”
So that none can say “I was just following orders.”
(Nuremberg Trials, 1945-46, Nuremberg, Germany)
“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
Patrick Henry

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
Salman Rushdie

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
Winston Churchill

“Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”
Author Unknown

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me ineligible for public office."
H. L. Mencken

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise than Christianity has made them good."
H. L. Mencken

"Any person who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
H. L. Mencken

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
Winston Churchill

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
George Washington

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword, the other is by debt."
John Adams

"Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong."
Abraham Lincoln

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
George Washington

“Help the Cubans to the utmost” counseling his successor while handing over the reins. “We cannot let Castro's government go on.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it."
Albert Einstein

"Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."
Ayn Rand

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
Ayn Rand

"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."
Thomas Jefferson

"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."
Jose Marti

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
Abraham Lincoln

"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
Margaret Thatcher

"Most Americans know that the government competes with the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck. It consumes it."
Mike Pence

"Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
Ayn Rand

"The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall."
Davy Crockett

"Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are."
Elbert Hubbard

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

"Necessity is always the justification that tyrants give."
Mike Munger

"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
Thomas Jefferson

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
George Washington

"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources."
Ronald Reagan

"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us."
Golda Meir

"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out."
Tony Blair

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Margaret Thatcher

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
Ayn Rand

"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

"An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life."
Jose Marti

"Oh Liberty, Liberty, your waters appease the thirst of those who die of hunger. Don't see in death the end of your dreams and ideals."
Dr. Claudio F. Benedi

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1907

"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."
Ayn Rand

"Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president."
Thomas Sowell

"Nothing in life just happens. You have to have the stamina to meet the obstacles and overcome them."
Golda Meir

"We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand."
William F. Buckley Jr.

"Government's view of the economy could 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

"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."
Thomas Jefferson

"What incredible arrogance to believe that we limited human beings can destroy that which we cannot even begin to understand -- much less create on our own -- and that is earth and all of its glories."
Rush Limbaugh

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
Ayn Rand

“Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!”
Major General Perry M. Smith

"I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. "
President George W. Bush
At site of the World Trade Center Terrorist attack after 9-11-2001

"Business is all about solving people's problems -- at a profit."
Paul Marsden

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
James Madison, 1788

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
Senator Barry Goldwater

"In America, we celebrate faith, we cherish religion, we lift our voices in prayer, and we raise our sights to the glory of God."
Donald J. Trump

"Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."
Author Unknown

"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
Cicero, 55 BC

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
Ronald Reagan

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself."
Mark Twain

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams
Speech at the Philadelphia State House on August 1, 1776

"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
Ayn Rand

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
Winston Churchill

“Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!"
Abraham Lincoln

"The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas."
Johnny Carson

"Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence."
Lenin, 1917

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Frederic Bastiat
Economist (1801-1850)

"An unborn child is not an inconvenience, it does not ask to be conceived, but if he could talk, he would ask for a chance, his own choice, a choice of life!"
HJ Benedi

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism", they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.  I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."
Norman Matton Thomas, 1944
(Leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. As a candidate for President of the U. S., Norman Thomas made the statement above.)

"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
Adrian Rogers, 1931

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
Benjamin Franklin

"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
James Madison

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
Ronald Reagan

"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
Benjamin Franklin

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
George S. Patton

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
James Bovard
Civil Libertarian (1994)

"We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed."
Ronald Reagan
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."
Theodore Roosevelt

"When people fear their government, there is tyranny. When government fears the people, there is liberty."
Thomas Jefferson

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P.J. O'Rourke
Civil Libertarian

"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
Benjamin Franklin

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
Ronald Reagan

"The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people."
Winston Churchill
Brighton, October 4, 1947

"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."
G. Gordon Liddy

"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
Abraham Lincoln

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw

"Feed your soul with the perfection of your life."
Dr. Claudio F. Benedi

"I tell you it's no use arguing with a communist. It's no good trying to convert a communist or persuade him. You can only deal with him on the following basis...you can only do it by having superior force on your side on the matter in question --and they must also be convinced that you will use --- you will not hesitate to use -- those forces, if necessary, in the most ruthless manner. You have not only to convince a communist government that you have a superior force -- that they are confronted by superior force--but that you are not restrained by any moral consideration, if the case arose , from using that force with complete material ruthlessness. And that is the greatest chance of peace, the surest road to peace."
Winston Churchill
March 25, 1949

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."
Voltaire, 1764

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!"
Pericles, 430 B.C.

"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
Mark Twain

"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."
James Madison

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
Herbert Spencer
English Philosopher (1820-1903)

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."
Edward Langley
Artist (1928-1995)

"There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence."
James Madison
Speech in Congress, 22 April 1790

"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."
Abraham Lincoln

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
George Washington

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Thomas Jefferson

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
Douglas MacArthur

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!"
P.J. O'Rourke

"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
Benjamin Franklin

"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
Ronald Reagan

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."
Abraham Lincoln

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."
Thomas Jefferson

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
William John Henry Boetcker

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
Thomas Jefferson

 "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
Ronald Reagan