Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 – 1832)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
New Hampshire is already a cold place, but the day we pass …
New Hampshire is already a cold place, but the day we pass an income tax we’ll enter hell. And it’ll be an even colder day there. Bob Clegg
New Hampshire state Representative on the attempt to pass an income tax, U.S. News and World Report, April 12, 1999.
People who have a financial stake in the country are a little …
People who have a financial stake in the country are a little more careful in the way they vote. President Gerald Ford
Commenting on the fact that many Baby Boomers have their retirement nest eggs in mutual funds, in Barron’s August 18, 1997
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom …
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison
Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 16, 1788, (1751-1836)
The only investors who need wide diversification are those who do not …
The only investors who need wide diversification are those who do not understand what they are doing. [It] makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing. Warren Buffett
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‘MY BILL … ESTABLISHES A 6-MONTH GRACE PERIOD FOR THE TURNING IN OF ALL HANDGUNS’ U.S. Representative Major Owens Congressional Record 11/10/93’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
Women’s liberationists spread the word that…the only peaceful family is …
Women’s liberationists spread the word that…the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. R. Emmett Tyell
The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984
The federal government cannot stop illegal immigrants, it cannot stop drug dealers, …
The federal government cannot stop illegal immigrants, it cannot stop drug dealers, but it can audit every small business in America. Newt Gingrich
on the IRS, as quoted in U.S. News & World Report, April 14, 1997
Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Insecurity spreads like contagion. …
Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Insecurity spreads like contagion. The threat is chaos. Iraq is not the only part of this. But it is a test of whether we treat the threat seriously. Tony Blair
March 2003
Isn’t it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune …
Isn’t it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously. Cincinnati Enquirer