I’ve never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have any newspapers or magazines to read. Richard M. Nixon
NBC-TV, April 8, 1984
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but …
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. Thomas Sowell
(1930- ) American writer, scholar and economist, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute,Stanford, California
Cheaters never win, they just finish first. The Midnight Skulker The Midnight …
Cheaters never win, they just finish first.
The Midnight Skulker
The Midnight Skulker in the comic strip B.C. July 27, 2000
Always tell the truth; then you don’t have to remember anything. …
Always tell the truth; then you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov …
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It …
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution. Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964 (1909-1998)
When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear …
When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It …
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution. Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964 (1909-1998)
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. …
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. Thomas Jefferson
1826 (1743-1826).(Investor’s Business Daily, November 25, 1998)
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and …
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success — only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development. Ronald Wilson Reagan
President (September 29, 1981)