The era of resistance to big government is never over.
Paul Gigot
Wall Street Journal, Week of March 6th, 1998.
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters …
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must …
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience? George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
There is a phrase which has grown so common in the world’…
There is a phrase which has grown so common in the world’s mouth that it has come to seem to have sense and meaning — the sense and meaning implied when it is used — that is, the phrase which refers to this or that or the other nation as possibly being ‘capable of self-government’; and the implied sense of it is, that there has been a nation somewhere, sometime or other which wasn’t capable of it — wasn’t as able to govern itself as some self-appointed specialists were or would be to govern it. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its …
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
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[F]reedom includes the right to own private property and the freedom to engage in voluntary transactions – the underpinnings of the free market. When government infringes on these rights or refuses to protect them, it retards economic growth.
Investors Business Daily, August 26, 1997
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or …
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Theodore Roosevelt
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[T]he bailout rewards speculators playing with middle-class money. The only thing that can correct the crisis is the marketplace, not a bailout. George Miller
D-California, on the 1995 Mexican financial crisis. Then in early 2009: “The only question about this [stimulus/bailout] package really is, is it large enough?”
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, how many times shall …
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?’Jesus answered, ‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.The servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go. “But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.’This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.’ Matthew
(Matthew 18:21-35)
Big government and big corporations have far too much influence and are …
Big government and big corporations have far too much influence and are intimidating, especially investigative reporting. Dan Rather
(Dan, it can’t survive big government interference everywhere, not just the reporting).