You shout four letter words at me, well, I have two for you: W-O-R-K and S-O-A-P. George Wallace
Democrat, 1968.
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
I just don’t know how you can expect the economy to …
I just don’t know how you can expect the economy to continue when you punish people for making wise investments. Just talking about [a cut in the capital-gains tax] would help. Fred Walker
retired school headmaster, Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2001
In 1962 President KennedyOs defense budget amounted to 44 per cent of …
In 1962 President KennedyOs defense budget amounted to 44 per cent of the entire budget. Congressional Budget Office
Congressional Budget Office
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told …
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. George Santayana
(1863-1952)
Today, wanting someone else’s money is called ‘need’, wanting to keep …
Today, wanting someone else’s money is called ‘need’, wanting to keepyour own money is called ‘greed’, and ‘compassion’ is when politiciansarrange the transfer. Joseph Sobran
I look upon an increase of the power of the State with …
I look upon an increase of the power of the State with the greatest fear, because although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all progress. We know of so many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State has really lived for the poor. Mahatma Ghandi
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its …
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort, safety or money that it values more, it will lose that too. W. Somerset Maugham
And when memory failed and written records were falsifiedNwhen that happened, the …
And when memory failed and written records were falsifiedNwhen that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested. George Orwell
1984
Don’t give up the ship! James Lawrence Tradition has it that …
Don’t give up the ship!
James Lawrence
Tradition has it that Capt. James Lawrence said these heroic words after being mortally wounded in the engagement between his ship, the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, and H.M.S. Shannon on 1 June 1813. As the wounded Lawrence was carried below, he ordered ‘Tell the men to fire faster! Don’t give up the ship!’ Although the Chesapeake was forced to surrender, Captain Lawrence’s words lived on as a rallying cry during the war. Oliver Hazard Perry honored his dead friend Lawrence when he had the motto sewn onto the private battle flag flown during the Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September 1813. (William S. Dudley, ed., The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History [Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1992] 2: 559)
Now it’s clear what is really killing the AIDS victims of …
Now it’s clear what is really killing the AIDS victims of Africa: Neglect in their own countries and kleptocratic administrations that keep their people from creating wealth. Thomas G. Donlan
Barron’s, April 30, 2001