Famous Quotes

"Anyone who would trade their freedom for safety
deserves neither freedom or safety."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Remember, when seconds count . . . .
the police are only minutes away."

- Unknown

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,
it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government
-- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

- Patrick Henry

"Government's first duty is to protect people,
not to run their lives."

- Ronald Reagan

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God,
then we will be a Nation gone under."

- Ronald Reagan

"A nation without [secure] borders is not a nation."

- 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

“It is freedom itself that still hangs in the balance,
and freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.”

- Ronald Reagan

"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think."

- Adolf Hitler

"Liberty means responsibility.   That is why most men dread it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment
tells you how he or she views you as an individual;
as a trustworthy and productive citizen,
or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over,
controlled, supervised, and taken care of."

- Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually
run out of other people’s money.”

- Margaret Thatcher

"Our 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

"The Government that governs best ... governs least."

- Thomas Jefferson

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“A democracy is always temporary in nature;
it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover
that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates
who promise the most benefits from the public treasury,
with the result that every democracy will finally collapse
due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship”

- Alexander Tytler 1787

"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

"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."

- Benjamin Franklin

"We 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

"No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man
than that which protects the rights of conscience
against the enterprises from civil authority"

- Thomas Jefferson

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways
to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days
is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
fathers used in the great struggle for independence."

- Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone
under independence.   The church, the plow, the prairie
wagon and citizens firearms are indelibly related."

- George Washington

"The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved
will not be done openly.   If weakened we will sink gradually.
I ask, who are the militia?   They consist of the whole people,
.... except a few public officers."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The 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

"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress
to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable
citizens .... from keeping their own arms."

- Samuel Adams

"Only an armed people can be truly free.
Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."

- Aristotle

"You cannot invade the mainland United States.
There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
(Japanese Navy)

"Can our system of government, our system of justice,
survive if one can be denied a freedom because he might abuse it?"

- Harlon B. Carter

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want
is big enough to take it all away."

- Barry Goldwater

"If you ever find that you only have an hour to live ....
spend it with a liberal and it will seem like a year."

- Rush Limbaugh

"The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers
that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity."

- Neal Bortz

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups."

- Phil Steffen

"The best argument against democracy
is a five minute conversation with the average voter."

- Winston Churchill

"A Democracy is the most vile form of government there is!"

- Thomas Paine

"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."

- Norman Thomas (US Socialist Presidential Candidate)

"Remember, Democracy never lasts long.   It soon
wastes, exhausts and murders itself!   There was never
a Democracy that did not commit suicide."

- Samuel Adams

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul."

- George Bernard Shaw

"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority,
but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority."

- Lord Action

"I do not believe in the collective
wisdom of average ignorance."

- Unknown

"In a Democracy the people get what the majority deserve."

- Jim Davidson

"It is easy to take liberty for granted,
when you have never had it taken from you."

- Dick Cheney

"The only people who have quick answers
don't have the responsibility of making the decisions."

- Justice Clarence Thomas

"Freedom is not free"

- National Rifle Association (NRA)

"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."

- Albert Einstein

"The only man that makes no mistake
is the man who does nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were going to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer,
A man who works with his hands and brain is a craftsman,
A man who works with his hands,and his brain, and his heart is an artist."

- Unknown

"The pleasure you get from life
is equal to the attitude you put into it."

- My Grandmother

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
The second best time is today."

- Unknown

"We cannot direct the wind,
but we can adjust the sails."

- Unknown

"Victory is in exactly the same place in every war,
it's in the mind of your enemy."

- Unknown

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

- Ronald Reagan

"You don't die for your country,
you make the other bastard die for his."

- Gen. George S. Patton

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