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Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short …
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, February 11, 1988
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[T]he peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing thehuman race . . . those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprivedvof the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. John Stuart Mill
1869
Insufficient facts can always represent danger. Spock Spock from Star Trek…
Insufficient facts can always represent danger.
Spock
Spock from Star Trek
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only …
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. President John F. Kennedy
Crank — a man with a new idea, until it succeeds. Mark Twain …
Crank — a man with a new idea, until it succeeds.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It …
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Noah Webster
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more …
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world. Colin Powell
reported in U.S. News & World Report January 29, 2001
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what …
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over past forty-nine years, they would move on Washington. It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States. George Malone
U.S. Senator, Nevada, speaking before Congress in 1957
I can argue all day, and it won’t affect our friendship …
I can argue all day, and it won’t affect our friendship but the moment I question your motive, you will never forgive me. Dwight D. Eisenhower
On why he reworded a draft address to Congress (34th President of the United States, 1890-1969)