… 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
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
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
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws …
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood..; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant chances that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow. James Madison
Federalist #62 (1751-1836) [The Internal Revenue Code is 11,200 pages of small print, with 2.8 million words as of the early 1990s]
Pain is weakness leaving the body. Unknown …
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Unknown
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor …
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. Thomas Jefferson
1779 (1743-1826), Thomas Jefferson: Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779. Papers, 2:546
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘…
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’ John Greenleaf Whittier