Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of the community, compared with fraudulent currencies and the robberies committed by depreciated paper. Daniel Webster
opposing the second Bank of the United States 1782-1852 due to inflation
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who …
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. Theodore Roosevelt
1907
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and …
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and howlittle we think of the other person. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) (Notebooks)
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his …
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin
Author of The Origin of Species (on Evolution) 1809-1882
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where …
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs — in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place. Robert Dole
Robert Dole, Barron’s August 12, 1996
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the …
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. Bertrand Russell
An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, (1872-1970), English mathematician and philosopher
Envy so often motivates the Left in its quest for redistribution. The …
Envy so often motivates the Left in its quest for redistribution. The economy is not a zero-sum game, and the wealth of a Bill Gates or a Michael Jordan does not take anything away from me. Indeed, the wealth of others enhances my life. Without the generosity of the rich, directly or through the foundations they have established, many of us who prefer life on a university faculty or at a think tank would have had quite different and less satisfying careers. Robert H. Bork
National Review, January 23, 1995
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. Jeane Kirkpatrick Jeane …
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Former U.N. Representative on the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, June 17, 1985
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. …
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. Paul Tournier
Gil Amelio is the best CEO that Apple ever had. Guy Kawasaki …
Gil Amelio is the best CEO that Apple ever had.
Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki, shortly after Gil Amelio took the position in 1996