I’m convinced the jails are full of people who don’t need to be there. Prisons should be mainly for the truly bad guys, who commit violent crimes. Barry Goldwater
U.S. Senator, Oct 23, 1994 Chicago Tribune (1909-1998)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and …
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. Edmund Burke
letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777.ÃThe Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 2, p. 199 (1899).
This country is too great, is population too numerous, its interests too …
This country is too great, is population too numerous, its interests too vast and complicated…to be governed as to the great range of our daily affairs, from one central power in Washington….[D]o not let us in our anxiety for efficiency cast away, break down, reject, those limits which save us to the control of our homes, of our own domestic affairs, and of our own local governments. For there, in the last analysis must be formed the character of free, independent, liberty-loving citizens. Elihu Root
U.S. Senator Root , Nobel laureate (Investor’s Business Daily, July 27, 1999) (1845-1937)
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[S]he had never believed in fighting fair. Either you fought, or you did not, and it was never a game. Fairness was for people standing safely to one side, talking while others bled. Robert Jordan
Cadsuane, Crossroads of Twilight, Wheel of Time
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… the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at pg. 2, col. 2
The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. …
The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin, circa 1916
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. …
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970), English mathematician and philosopher
What’s the big deal? President Clinton did it. Unidentified Williamsburg Va. …
What’s the big deal? President Clinton did it.
Unidentified Williamsburg Va. Middle School girl
Responding to her parents’ concerns about an outbreak of oral sex at the school. (http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-07/08/216l-070899-idx.html)
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come …
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, March 2, 1994
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power …
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950