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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption or both. - John F. Kennedy I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. - Douglas MacArthur Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation. - David Horowitz A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. - David Horowitz We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. - Ann Coulter We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. - Ann Coulter Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. - Ronald Reagan Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George S. Patton If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. - George S. Patton A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. - Winston Churchill Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. - William O. Douglas The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. - William O. Douglas Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. - Thomas Sowell Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. - Thomas Sowell To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. - Charles Bradlaugh Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. - Neal Boortz A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of. - Neal Boortz If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. - George Washington That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. - Thomas Paine I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. - Bob Dylan Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. - Ronald Reagan Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. - John Quincy Adams If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky And freedom is what America means to the world. - Audie Murphy The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. - Alexander Hamilton In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. - Alexander Hamilton Distrust and caution are the parents of security. - Benjamin Franklin Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. - Benjamin Franklin America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. - Alexis de Toqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. - Alexis de Toqueville Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. - Alexis de Toqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. - Alexis de Toqueville The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. - Alexis de Toqueville The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. - Alexis de Toqueville Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. - Whitaker Chambers America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. - Abraham Lincoln |
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