"Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute."
Lord Acton (1834-1902)
"We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick -- professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, 'We the people,' this breed called Americans."
Ronald Reagan
"The President has come a long way from his stance in 2011, when he told an audience, 'The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting, I promise you, not just on immigration reform. But that's not how our system works. That's not how our democracy functions.' And yet, despite the fresh threat of Obama's executive pen, this isn't a new strategy for the Administration. The Administration hasn't needed Congress to enact new regulations on the Internet, businesses, energy production, and religious institutions. It has used its power to give struggling labor unions a new edge. It has granted amnesty to illegal immigrants. And it has rewritten welfare law to gut out the work requirements. In short, Obama's redefined the presidency."
Heritage Foundation's Amy Payne
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
author Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Both President John F. Kennedy ... and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson ... were very explicit as to what the 'war on poverty' was intended to accomplish. ... What the war on poverty was intended to end was mass dependency on government. President Kennedy said, 'We must find ways of returning far more of our dependent people to independence.' The same theme was repeated endlessly by President Johnson. The purpose of the 'war on poverty,' he said, was to make 'taxpayers out of taxeaters.' Its slogan was 'Give a hand up, not a handout.' When Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark legislation into law, he declared: 'The days of the dole in our country are numbered.' Now, 50 years and trillions of dollars later, it is painfully clear that there is more dependency than ever."
Economist Thomas Sowell
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall
"Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!
From the book "Dereliction of Duty" p.71-72-- Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.
Clinton, Hillary
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
"[T]he most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome."
James Madison, Federalist No. 39, 1788
"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
"During the first cold-weather Super Bowl, Fox Sports will use an infrared camera that will show how players' body temperatures change throughout the game. And MSNBC will have a simulcast, blaming the changes on global warming."
Fred Thompson
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John Kennedy
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
"The FBI said Monday it found no lawbreaking in the IRS's targeting of the Tea Party. Last summer the IRS admitted it was targeting conservative groups. President Obama called it an outrageous practice and said he'd immediately have his Benghazi investigators look into it."
Comedian Argus Hamilton
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
"Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive, [it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American."
President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin (1776)
"The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed."
Ronald Reagan
"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote."
American political consultant Lyn Nofziger (1924-2006)
"Stay the f**k back, stay the f**k back away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else! Just f**king do as I say, Okay!!?"
-From the book "Unlimited Access" by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige, p.139- Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail.
Clinton, Hillary
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman
"You f**king idiot"
From the book "Crossfire" p.84-Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event.
Clinton, Hillary
"President Obama is getting serious about this NSA spying scandal. He told the nation that the NSA will not be used 'for the purpose of suppressing or burdening criticism or dissent.' You see, that's what the IRS is for."
Comedian Jay Leno
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
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Doc
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
F**k off! It's enough I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I'm not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut."
-From the book "America Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p.90-Hillary to her State Trooper body guards after one of them greeted her with "Good Morning
Clinton, Hillary
"The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
In 2006: Leadership means that ''the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. Raising the debt ceiling would constitute a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit."
Senator Obama
"What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them."
John Dickinson, Letters of Fabius, 1788
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Doc
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John Kennedy
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Doc
"If you want to remain on this detail, get your f**king ass over here and grab those bags!”
_From the book "The First Partner" p.259- Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident.
Clinton, Hillary
"Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?'"
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
"A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
author Isabel Paterson (1886-1961)
"Sex and drugs have replaced building for the future; abortion and the welfare state have replaced consequences. In the end, this philosophy will lead to the dominance of the state. ... [H]ow can we solve all of this? Not through the law -- the law follows culture. The only way to restore an American future is to restore the social and religious institutions that fostered genuine American values. This means fighting back against the tyranny of those who conveniently proclaim to 'live and let live' while simultaneously demanding that Americans with traditional values shut the hell up."
Columnist Ben Shapiro
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
"Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems; some of these same voices also doing their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave and creative and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted."
DipShIdiot Barack Obama
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Doc
"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck."
Thomas Jefferson
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
