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)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Martin Luther King told people they had to take on the responsibility — …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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