In the television age, the way to avoid trivialization is to remain veiled. Charles Krauthammer
On the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to let TV cameras cover Bush v. Gore, U.S. News & World Report, January 8, 2001
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no …
Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them.
U.S. Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
I object strongly to the artificial and mainly false dichotomy that some …
I object strongly to the artificial and mainly false dichotomy that some people in the political arean place between blue-collar and white-collar workers. There is no way to earn an honest living in this country except by providing a product or a service to the public and, generally speaking, the harder and smarter you work, the more money you make. It’s just that some people have greater abilities than others. Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your …
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage. Jed Babbin
former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense said it first, on January 29, 2003 on Hardball with Chris Matthews;
I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he …
I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist. Obama is following Marxist theory. He’s taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail. Andy Williams
On President Obama, September 28, 2009
I must point out that my rule of life prescribes as an …
I must point out that my rule of life prescribes as an absolutely sacred right smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill
After being told by Ibn Saud that the king’s religious beliefs forbade the use of tobacco and liquor. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the …
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. James Madison
architect of the U.S. Constitution.(1751-1836)
In short, the flames kindled on the fourth of July, 1776, have …
In short, the flames kindled on the fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them. Thomas Jefferson
1821 (1743-1826).(Investor’s Business Daily, November 25, 1998)
Senator, the thing we forget is why we’re here and what …
Senator, the thing we forget is why we’re here and what we’re trying to do. The government doesn’t provide productive jobs. That’s not what we’re supposed to do. … The job of government is to protect the people, to enforce the law, and to make sure people play by the rules, like the umpires on a ball field. It’s not supposed to be our job, I think, to punish people for playing the game well. Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept …
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants; money will not give him a code of values, if he’s evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he’s evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil? Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)