IF IT WERE UP TO ME WE’D BAN THEM ALL U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds (D) CNN Crossfire 12/9/93 on gunsThe Constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams, Debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is …
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. Unknown
We feel, and the Defense Department feels, that problem is not going …
We feel, and the Defense Department feels, that problem is not going to be aproblem. Of course, it can’t be a problem. We won’t allow it to be a problem….We’re confident that it is going to be solved, but we’re going to be doubly, triplyand quadrupally confident that it’s going to be solved before September of thisyear. Al Gore
Quoted on San Jose Mercury News Gore says U.S. will be ready for Y2K February 28,1999.
The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared …
The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy. Fred L. Smith
1992
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn. Clark Gable to …
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
Clark Gable to Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind, 1939
Kill a man, one is a murderer; kill a million, a conqueror; …
Kill a man, one is a murderer; kill a million, a conqueror; kill them all, a God. Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand (1894-1977), French biologist, writer. PensZes d’un Biologiste (1939; repr. in The Substance of Man, 1962, p. 68).
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes …
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on the guilt. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1905-1982 [On why one needs objective laws]
Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to …
Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to tamper with this box of transistors and tubes when we don’t do the same for Time magazine? Mark Fowler
Mark Fowler, Former FCC Chairman
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. …
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
(1694-1778)
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a …
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau