President Clinton was in contempt of court for his ‘willful failure’ to testify truthfully in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright
April 12, 1999, CNN.
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to …
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God. Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865), 16th president of the United States.
We must assure a society here which, while never abandoning the needy, …
We must assure a society here which, while never abandoning the needy, or forsaking the helpless, nurtures incentives and opportunity for the creative and the productive. Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater, June 18, 1964 (1909-1998)
Why should I trust you? You’re reporters. Tom Clancy Executive Orders, …
Why should I trust you? You’re reporters.
Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996
I can very well conceive that some one having an article containing …
I can very well conceive that some one having an article containing more or less opium would feel that he was in danger if the public knew of it, and with a pliable public official it would be easily possible for him to keep this damaging fact from public knowledge. Charles H. Fletcher
N.Y. Times, Apr. 15, 1892. On the impact that the predecessor to 1906 Act (“Wiley Act” on Food and Drugs) could have on the unscrupulous – an invitation to bribery.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where Government has gone …
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where Government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves Ronald Reagan
New York Times, April 13, 1980
But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country …
But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country was not born in the resources of the earth, though they be plentiful, but in the men that took its measure. For that reminder is everywhere – in the cities, towns, farms, roads, factories, homes, hospitals, schools that spread everyone over that wilderness.We can remind ourselves that for all our social discord we yet remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators. Being so, we are the marvel and mystery of the world, for that enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth. Wall Street Journal
Part of several editorials published annually on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving since 1961 in the Wall Street Journal
I’m convinced the jails are full of people who don’t …
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)
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)