Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it. Will Rogers
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She …
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848), 6th President of United States 1825-1829
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was quiet because I had …
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was quiet because I had nothing to hide.When they took the Sixth Amendment, I was quiet because I had never been arrested.When they took the Second Amendment, I was quiet because I didn’t like guns.Now they have taken the First Amendment, and I can only be quiet. Author unknown
2003
The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but …
The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination. Ronald Reagan
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’…
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. Abraham Lincoln
1854, (1809-1865), 16th president of the United States.
To support the death penalty requires placing your trust in state actors …
To support the death penalty requires placing your trust in state actors in our criminal justice system: police, prosecutors and the courts. That trust has been betrayed too many times. Timothy Lynch
Directory, Cato Institute’s Criminal Justice Project, Reason Magazine, July 2001
If after every tempest comes such calms, may the winds blow until …
If after every tempest comes such calms, may the winds blow until they have awakened death. William Shakespeare
Othello, playwright (1564-1616)
At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether we have done well …
At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether we have done well or ill. The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property. Thomas Jefferson
On removing taxes in 1805 (1743-1826)
It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children; but …
It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children; but it is our duty to leave them liberty.
The Resolutions of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1774.
When you tote up the carbon emissions caused by clearing land to …
When you tote up the carbon emissions caused by clearing land to grow corn, fertilizing it and transporting it, corn ethanol leaves twice the carbon footprint as gasoline. Newsweek
April 14, 2008