Our overall gun crime rates pale in comparison to those of Latin America and the former Soviet Bloc, in spite of their much stricter gun laws. Reason
Aug/Sept 2007
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
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[I]t does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.. Samuel Adams
1722-1803, American revolutionary
Contributions and expenditures both involve core First Amendment expression because they further …
Contributions and expenditures both involve core First Amendment expression because they further the discussion of public issues and debate on the qualifications of candidates integral to the operation of the system of government established by our Constitution. When an individual donates money to a candidate or to a partisan organization, he enhances the donee’s ability to communicate a message and thereby adds to political debate, just as when that individual communicates the message himself. Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in Colorado Republican Campaign Cmte v. F.E.C. 518 U.S. 604 (1996).
We are a government of laws not opinions. Christian H F Riley …
We are a government of laws not opinions.
Christian H F Riley
October 1, 2002 on Rights.com
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. Milton Friedman Nobel …
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006) (Attributed to him)
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays …
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays nine years ago no work on Natural History Science I have met with has made so great an impression on me & I do most heartily thank you for the great store of new views you have given me. . .As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite. . .I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you. . . And as to the curs which will bark and yelp — you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead — I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895, Letter of T. H. Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 23, 1859, regarding the Origin of Species
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while …
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that , by …
It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that , by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow, by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard urged against the admission of a bill of rights unto this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution. James Madison
I Annals of Cong. 456 (1834), the clause referred to contains the present Ninth Amendment. (1751-1836)
This liberty you are to stand for, with the hazard not only …
This liberty you are to stand for, with the hazard not only of your goods but of your lives if need be. John Winthrop
First Governor of the Puritans in America
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it …
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment — Independence now and Independence forever. Daniel Webster
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. P. 136. 1782-1852