Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that a doctor’s fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some of you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he’ll eat you last. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to …
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. Daniel Webster
Speech, April, 1824. Vol. iii. p. 141. 1782-1852
The further I get from the things that I care about, the …
The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get. Robert Smith
Fear of Ghosts
The origin of all constitutional rights, according to Lincoln, was the right …
The origin of all constitutional rights, according to Lincoln, was the right that a man had to own himself, and therefore to own the product of his labor. Government exists to protect that right, and to regulate property only to make it more valuable to its possessors. Harry V. Jaffa
Abraham Lincoln on the essence of slavery and government jobs [as reported in a Wall Street Journal article by Jaffa, September 12, 1996]
I couldn’t remember things until I took that Sam Carnegie course. …
I couldn’t remember things until I took that Sam Carnegie course. Bill Peterson
former Houston Oiler football coach
The first principle of a free society is that each person owns …
The first principle of a free society is that each person owns himself. You are your private property, and I am mine. Most Americans probably accept that first principle. Those who disagree are obliged to inform the rest of us just who owns us, at least here on earth. Dr. Walter E. Williams
May 7, 2003, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20030507.shtml
The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated …
The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincon’s Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. The Atlanta Journal
1990s
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established …
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
We find a race of men living in that day whom we …
We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers. They were iron men. They fought for the principle that they were contending for, and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us. Abraham Lincoln
Speech July 10, 1858 in Chicago on the Declaration of Independence and its celebration (1809-1865)
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, …
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it’s a limit that’s very seldom mentioned. It’s the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don’t think there are any other conditions to free speech. I’ve got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven’t got a right to press it on anybody else. …. Nobody’s got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors. H.L. Mencken
(1880-1956)