“If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.” –Orson Scott Card
“The only way to come closest to the truth is to rigorously question your own beliefs.” –Common Sense
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
–Dr. Adrian Rogers
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” –Robert Heinlein
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
-C. S. Lewis
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.” –Albert Einstein
“The end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge Freedom.” –John Locke
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” –Henry Ford
“The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.” –Ron Paul
“Those who would give up their liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” –Benjamin Franklin
“If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” –Samuel Adams
“Those who do not take an interest in public affairs are doomed to be ruled by evil men.” –Plato, circa 300 BC
“The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.” –Cicero 55 B.C.
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” –Pericles (430 BC)
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” –Alvin Toffler
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” –Mohandas Gandhi
“Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only a unanimity at the graveyard.” –Justice Robert H. Jackson
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead
“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.” –F. A. Hayek
“Liberals want to be your Mommy. Conservatives want to be your Daddy. Libertarians want to treat you like an adult.” –Anonymous
“The Constitution is like paper currency, they are both worthless pieces of paper unless there is something to back them up. In the case of money, we need gold or its equivalent. In the case of the Constitution, we need the vigilance of the American people.” –Common Sense
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the states; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the states chooses to withdraw from the compact, it would be difficult to disapprove its right of doing so, and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly either by force or right.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
“If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”
- Andrew Jackson
“Only the One who has everything at His disposal can grant rights for free. In order for men to grant rights, they must be paid for by giving back part of the freedom granted by the Creator. Your savior will necessarily be your lord, because you must grant power over whatever you want saved.” -Greg Hartley, Fan of UOCS
Norman Thomas Quotes, 6 time presidential candidate for American Socialist Party
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”
