Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry
aka an ‘Extremist’ in today’s dialect
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
How do people live without working? Millions in the bottom 20 percent …
How do people live without working? Millions in the bottom 20 percent live on the money earned by other people who do work and whose income gets taxed to pay for the non-workers. In addition, more than 4 million families in the bottom fifth in income live on property income and nearly 6 million live on various forms of retirement income, including Social Security. (Table FINC-06, for those who demand proof only from those they disagree with.) Thomas Sowell
May 2, 2003
We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for …
We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick – professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, ‘We the people,’ this breed called Americans. Ronald Reagan
First Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1981
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. …
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short …
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, February 11, 1988
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[T]he peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing thehuman race . . . those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprivedvof the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. John Stuart Mill
1869
Insufficient facts can always represent danger. Spock Spock from Star Trek…
Insufficient facts can always represent danger.
Spock
Spock from Star Trek
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only …
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. President John F. Kennedy
Crank — a man with a new idea, until it succeeds. Mark Twain …
Crank — a man with a new idea, until it succeeds.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It …
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Noah Webster