There is a phrase which has grown so common in the world’s mouth that it has come to seem to have sense and meaning — the sense and meaning implied when it is used — that is, the phrase which refers to this or that or the other nation as possibly being ‘capable of self-government’; and the implied sense of it is, that there has been a nation somewhere, sometime or other which wasn’t capable of it — wasn’t as able to govern itself as some self-appointed specialists were or would be to govern it. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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Let us beware that while they [Soviet rulers
Let us beware that while they [Soviet rulers] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination over all the peoples of the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world…. I urge you to beware the temptation … to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of any evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.E Ronald Wilson Reagan
President , speech to the National Association of Evangelicals (March 8, 1983)
preach the supremacy of … ]
And I’m very glad we’ve got the great team in …
And I’m very glad we’ve got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul O’Neill – people I know very well – our president George W. Bush. We need them there. … President George Bush had the courage and the vision… and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship. General Wesley Clark
May 11, 2001, Little Rock, Arkansas
Private property, money, freedom, engineering and industry are one system. And when …
Private property, money, freedom, engineering and industry are one system. And when one is taken out, the rest must collapse, cease to function. Isabel Paterson
At a time when our lordly Masters in Great Britain will be …
At a time when our lordly Masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprecation of American freedom…[it is necessary to] maintain the liberty which we have derived from our ancestors. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment to use arms in defense of so valuable a blessing…is clearly my opinion. George Washington
In the late 1760s.
The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth …
The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees thegrowth of the beast. … Politicians see government as a solution but thepeople see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politiciansrealize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved. More government always translates into less freedom. R. Lee Wrights
May 18, 2003
Conservative in fundamental principles…but the principles conserved are liberal, and some, …
Conservative in fundamental principles…but the principles conserved are liberal, and some, indeed, are radical. Gunner Myrdal
On the views of the American creed. [Liberal in the original sense]
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move …
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works. Ulysses S. Grant
To Gen. S. B. Buckner, Fort Donelson, Feb. 16, 1862. 1822-1885
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists …
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
There’s no excuse for a grown man to have an affair …
There’s no excuse for a grown man to have an affair with an intern, whether his name is Bill Clinton or Jack Kennedy. What the former president did was wrong. Susan Estrich
May 14, 2003