During his tenure in the U.S. House (1977 to 1984) Gore voted pro-life 27 times and had a 84% pro-life voting record. Al Gore
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job …
I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it. Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher, 1975
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this …
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it. Thomas Jefferson
First Inaugural Address
Does anybody seriously believe that hate speech prohibitions will be applied to …
Does anybody seriously believe that ‘hate speech’ prohibitions will be applied to Muslims demonizing Jews, to blacks demonizing whites, or to women demonizing men? Thomas Sowell
Hey, when everybody is out to get you, paranoid is just…..good …
Hey, when everybody is out to get you, paranoid is just…..good thinking!! Dr Johnny Fever
Free, scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant. Ayn Rand (1905-1982)…
Free, scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant.
Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all …
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things à bad language and whatever à it’s all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition. … There’s an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. … It’s reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.” George Carlin
March 12, 2004
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)
Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to …
Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all, it makes it possible for us to make up our mind and arrange to live sensibly, truthfully, and always with a sense of our own limitations.If men believe, as I do, that this present earth is the only heaven, they will strive all the more to make heaven of it. Jean Riley Anderson
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[L]ike everyplace else, talent went were the money was.
Tom Clancy
The Bear and the Dragon, 2000