He [Sen. Barry Goldwater] spoke of freedom: freedom from the governments increasing demands on the family purse, freedom from the governmentĂs increasing usurpation of individual rights and responsibilities, freedom from the leaders who told us the price of world peace is acquiescence to totalitarianism. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, Mar 8, 1985
spoke of freedom: freedom from the governments increasing … ]
A campaign finance bill sponsored by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Russell Feingold (D-WI) was proposed and rejected by the Senate due to questions about its constitutionality and one-sidedness. Al Gore backed the bill strongly, and even claimed ‘Unlike Senator [Bill] Bradley, I was a co-sponsor of it’ in the November 24, 1999 New York Times. But as noted by Bill Bradley’s campaign, ‘Gore not only did not, but could not have co-sponsored McCain-Feingold. Russ Feingold was not elected until 1992. Al Gore quite the Senate in 1992 to become Vice President. Feingold and Gore never served together.’ Al Gore
Bradley Press Release, December 7, 1999. It was thus impossible for Gore to have co-sponsored this bill.
Why the [drug] research slowdown? Drug company profits are under pressure. Research spending is for the future, often the distant future. If the politicians tell you they are going to squeeze your profits, you lose a lot of interest in investing money in things that may never pay off.
Forbes, May 9, 1994
research slowdown? Drug company profits are under pressure. Research … ]
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it. Benjamin Franklin
from “Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion”, Nov. 20, 1728, 1706-1790
All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately …The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon … must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.
The Nazi view on firearms, SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Martin Luther King told people they had to take on the responsibility — and risk — to gain their freedom. Jesse Jackson tells them that they are weak, victims of prejudice, that have no responsibility for their situation, and that they should rely on him to get the concessions that will improve their situation. In my opinion, that message of `victimhood’ is a bigger barrier to progress than prejudice itself. Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele, African-American scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution who studies the economics and politics of race. (San Jose Mercury News, March 13, 1999)
Only a nation that can protect its freedom deserves it.
Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
July 17, 2006
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. Thomas B. Reed
-1886
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