If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. Dwight D. Eisenhower
1949 (34th President of the United States, 1890-1969)
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What’s the big deal? President Clinton did it. Unidentified Williamsburg Va. …
What’s the big deal? President Clinton did it.
Unidentified Williamsburg Va. Middle School girl
Responding to her parents’ concerns about an outbreak of oral sex at the school. (http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-07/08/216l-070899-idx.html)
It’s more the way it is now than it’s ever …
It’s more the way it is now than it’s ever been.
William Gibson
Pattern Recognition, 2003 p 180, quoting Dwight David Eisenhower
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as …
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. James Fenimore Cooper
American novelist 1789-1851
Politicians never accuse you of greed for wanting other people’s money — …
Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money — only for wanting to keep your own money. Joseph Sobran
(1946- ) American writer and editor. Formerly senior editor at National Review.
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while …
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, …
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, at any time, and with utter recklessness. Robert A. Heinlein
The Puppet Masters
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan December 11, …
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan
December 11, 1972
More than 200 years after the patriots fired that first shot heard Ã…
More than 200 years after the patriots fired that first shot heard Ãround the word, one revolutionary idea still burns in the hearts of men and women everywhere: A society where man is not beholden to government; government is beholden to man. Ronald Reagan
Mar 2, 1984
A portion of the American people are now so accustomed to a …
A portion of the American people are now so accustomed to a liberal democratic press that when they see an objective report they think it biased. Lord knows what they would think if they read the Federalist Papers or saw a report with a conservative bias. Christian H F Riley
November 1, 2000 on Rights.com