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
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of …
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. Ronald Wilson Reagan
President , address to the National Alliance of Business (October 5, 1981) E
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a …
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, August 15, 1986
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[I] drank a lot of iced tea during meetings, which could have necessitated a restroom break. Al Gore
On why he was not aware of various things, adding that he was ‘sometimes inattentive’ and ‘missed parts of fund-raising meetings.’ 1998 FBI interview, New York Times, 3/11/00
Gun registration is not enough. Janet Reno Former Attorney General, December 10, …
Gun registration is not enough.
Janet Reno
Former Attorney General, December 10, 1993
Libertarianism offers the Constitutional alternative to the current welfare-warfare regime. It …
Libertarianism offers the Constitutional alternative to the current welfare-warfare regime. It is a philosophy that everyone can adopt, regardless of their party affiliation. Don Hull
June 2003
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at …
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy (1846) (Quotation varies with translator)
The Japanese surrendered on the bow [he pronounced it like bow tie
The Japanese surrendered on the ‘bow’ [he pronounced it like ‘bow ‘ tie] of the ‘aircraft carrier’ [instead of the battleship] Missouri. Al Gore
George Putnam on KIEV radio 12:00 to 2:00 P.M. in Glendale California
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This is the time to be morally clear, nothing justifies terrorism. Dan …
This is the time to be morally clear, nothing justifies terrorism. Dan Quayle
Oct 21, 2001, Washington Times
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of …
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 – 1832)