Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. William Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet, Act i. Sc.5
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
In a free society, the government’s job is simply to protect …
In a free society, the government’s job is simply to protect liberty – the people do the rest. Let’s not give up on a grand experiment that has provided so much for so many. Let’s reject the police state. Ron Paul
June 27, 2002 (Rep, R- Texas)
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal …
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance… John Philpot Curran
in a speech before the Privy Council on July 10, 1790. see The Speeches of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran, ed. Thomas Davis, pp. 94TH95 (1847).[Also attributed to Thomas Jefferson]
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Milton …
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006), Capitalism and Freedom, 1962
In the United States today, the average individual, whoever he is, works …
In the United States today, the average individual, whoever he is, works from January 1 to…late June to provide funds that the government controls. That is to say, government at one level or another, federal, state, or local – directly through spending and taxes, and indirectly through rules, regulations, and mandates – controls half the national income and can determine how that is spent. We’re 50 percent socialist. Now, is that half freedom or half slavery? Neither of those statements would be wrong: We’re partly free and partly enslaved. Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006)
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, …
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. James Madison
(1751-1836)
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. …
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. James Fenimore Cooper
The American Democrat, American Author (1789-1851)
They are a disaster. They ruined the poor. They created a culture …
They are a disaster. They ruined the poor. They created a culture of poverty and a culture of violence which is destructive of this civilization, and they have to be replaced thoroughly from the ground up. Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich, 1994 on the Great Society programs
Interestingly, if one were to compare side-by-side the constitutions of …
Interestingly, if one were to compare side-by-side the constitutions of the UN and of Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union, they are almost identical in every word and content. For example:Art. 118 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to work, same as UN Art. 23.Art. 120 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to medical care in the event of sickness, old age, or unemployment, same as UN Art. 25.Art. 119 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to rest and leisure, same as UN Art. 24.Art. 122 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says motherhood and childhood are entitled to special assistance, same as UN Art. 25, Pt. II.Art. 126 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to unite in trade unions, same as UN Art. 23, Pt. IV.Art. 121 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to education, same as UN Art. 26.So, where are our *inalienable* rights under the UN Charter? Nowhere, because as with the Soviet Union which believed that government, and not the people, had inalienable rights, all citizens under a one world government will be entitled to a host of rights, ‘except as prescribed and limited by law’. Unknown
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, …
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)