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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-- John Adams
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."
-- Voltaire
"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 per cent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
--Daniel Webster
"The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny." -- Calvin Coolidge
"There is a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority of fact."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." – 1759
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Since the general civilizations of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
James Madison
"Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights--the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery--hay and a barn for human cattle. There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
"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
-- John Adams
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."
-- Voltaire
"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 per cent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
--Daniel Webster
"The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny." -- Calvin Coolidge
"There is a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority of fact."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." – 1759
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Since the general civilizations of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
James Madison
"Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights--the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery--hay and a barn for human cattle. There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
"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