Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865), 16th president of the United States.
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
WeÃve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for …
WeÃve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for liberty and freedom and fairness. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, Mar 8, 1985
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know …
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilization escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite. Russell Kirk
The Conservative Mind (1953)
It usually costs money to communicate an idea to a large audience. …
It usually costs money to communicate an idea to a large audience. But no one would seriously contend that a limitation on the expenditure of money to print a newspaper would not deprive the publisher of freedom of the press. Nor can the fact that it costs money to make a speech – whether it be hiring a hall or purchasing time on the air – make the speech any less an exercise of First Amendment Rights. Justice William O. Douglas
Whenever a state seeks to enforce substantive equality, in society, the principles …
Whenever a state seeks to enforce ‘substantive equality,’ in society, the principles of free speech, private property, and individual freedom inevitably raise insurmountable obstacles to the totalitarian project and are invariably suppressed. David Horowitz
As a junior member in the US House, he was a major …
As a junior member in the US House, he was a major force: He wrote and then spearheaded passage of the Superfund law. He even authored the US nuclear negotiating position. And at a time when President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev faced off on the superpower stage, Gore had his own meeting with Gorbachev. And, of course, he created the Internet. At various times in his political career, Gore, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has said all those things about himself and his family. None are quite true. Some are exaggerations grown up around kernels of biographical fact. Others are simply false. A few, like the boastful claim about the Internet, have become comic fodder, even for Gore. Al Gore
Boston Globe, 4/11/00
They do not love that do not show their love. William Shakespeare …
They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
If a man does only what is required of him, he is …
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. The moment he does more, he is a free man. A.W. Robertson
If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry. Chekhov …
If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.
Chekhov
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, …
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln
Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863 (1809-1865)