Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice – and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man – by choice; he has to hold his life as a value – by choice; he has to learn to sustain it – by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues – by choice. Ayn Rand
‘Galt’s Speech,’ Atlas Shrugged
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success …
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. George W. Bush
January 20, 2005
The war started right here on Sept. 11, 2001. Gov. George Pataki …
The war started right here on Sept. 11, 2001.
Gov. George Pataki
New York Governor, April 10, 2003, at ‘ground zero’
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the …
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas. Justice William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, 1953
There is nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action. Goethe …
There is nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action.
Goethe
A Frenchman’s home is where another man’s wife is. There …
A Frenchman’s home is where another man’s wife is. There is nothing lower than the human race except the French. Mark Twain
1878-1879 Journal entry
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly …
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Matthew
(Matthew 6:14-15)
Government should be weak, amateurish, and ridiculous. At present, it fufills only …
Government should be weak, amateurish, and ridiculous. At present, it fufills only a third of the role. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
FINDING # 5 – The Commission determined that stolen weapons are more likely to …
FINDING # 5 – The Commission determined that stolen weapons are more likely to be used in crime than legitimately purchased weapons and thus the use of stolen weapons poses a significantly greater threat to safety of the citizens of Florida.
Florida Assault Weapons Commission Report, May 18, 1990
I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity [to …
I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity [to approve such] would be subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded. Franklin Pierce
While President in 1854, during a heated debate over a bill intended to provide public money for the mentally ill.