Less government is good government
Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater, as reported on Fox News, May 29, 1998 (1909-1998)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline …
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
In assembling a staff, the conservative leader faces a greater problem than …
In assembling a staff, the conservative leader faces a greater problem than does the liberal. In general, liberals want more government and hunger to be the ones running it. Conservatives want less government and want no part of it. Liberals want to run other people’s lives. Conservatives want to be left alone to run their own lives…Liberals flock to government; conservatives have to be enticed and persuaded. Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon, Leaders, 1994
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit …
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater, Accepting Republican presidential nomination 16 Jul 64 (1909-1998)
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being unfeeling, he means that that …
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that ‘to feel’ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality. … Well, observe that you never hear that accusation in defense of innocence, but always in defense of guilt. You never hear it said by a good person about those who fail to do him justice. But you always hear it said by a rotter about those who treat him as a rotter, those who don’t feel any sympathy for the evil he’s committed or for the pain he suffers as a consequence. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
I don’t want to run the national economy! I want your …
I don’t want to run the national economy! I want your national economy runners to leave me alone! Ayn Rand
Dagny Taggart, Atlas Shrugged
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed …
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often,and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Rudyard Kipling
Without speculation there is no good and original observation. Charles Darwin Author …
Without speculation there is no good and original observation. Charles Darwin
Author of The Origin of Species (on Evolution) 1809-1882
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‘No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury […] nor shall any person be […] twice put in jeopardy of life […] nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.’ United States Constituion’s Fifth Amendment
Run when you hear any of the following in a sentence: humanity, …
Run when you hear any of the following in a sentence: humanity, the human condition, the human spirit. Roger Rosenblatt
From Rules for Aging, reported in U.S. News & World Report, January 8, 2001