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Great words of wisdom from the ages! "Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!" ~ Pericles (430 B.C.) "The worst decision you can make is to think that you can do so little that you do nothing at all." - unknown "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato "I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted." - Federick Douglass "Where annual elections end where slavery begins." - John Quincy Adams "Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." - Ronald Reagan "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "The more you sweat in practice, the less you will bleed in battle" - unknown "Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation." - Plato "Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing." - Edward Abbey "What worries you, masters you." - John Locke "The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits." - Theodore Roosevelt "Every man dies. Not every man really lives." - Sir William Wallace "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." - Theodore Roosevelt "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne "People waste time on their hopes and dreams, fate is always in my hands. Only way I know is the way I'm gonna go, when others sit and make their plans. I don't stop 'til I make it to the top, don't need no one to understand. 'Cause I know what I'm doing, and I know what I want." - Paul Stanley / KISS Lyrics to "Never Enough" 2009 "To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution." - Ron Paul "Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face." - Thomas Sowell "Extremism in the defense of Liberty, is no vice! Moderation in the pursuit of justice, is no virtue!" - Senator Barry M. Goldwater 1964 "A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues." - Theodore Roosevelt "If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes." - H. Ross Perot "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters. Republicans look at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency. To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders." - Tom Tancredo "Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country." - Theodore Roosevelt "I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny." - Zell Miller "Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it." - Pericles "All wealth is the product of labor." - John Locke "The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work." - Senator Robert A. Taft "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy" - John Adams "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 "To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern." - Sarah Palin "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt "Presidents are not elected, they are selected." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell." - John Jakes "Never underestimate the ability of a small group of people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." – P.J. O'Rourke "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt "Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed." - Ron Paul "Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all." - Pericles "All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. " - Adolf Hitler "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained." - Winston Churchill "If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married." - Kirk Douglas "A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved" - Benjamin Franklin "I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized. " - Davy Crockett "In politics the middle way is none at all." - John Adams "Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell." - Edward Abbey "Great liars are also great magicians." - Adolf Hitler "The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals." - Edward Abbey "1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS." - Ron Paul "PASS FLAT SALES TAX AND ABOLISH IRS - Mr. Speaker, in 1998, Congress reformed the IRS and included two of my provisions. The first transferred the burden of proof from the taxpayer to the IRS; the second required judicial consent before the IRS could seize our property, and the results are now staggering. Property seizures dropped from 10,037 to 161 in the entire country. The IRS had a license to steal, and they were stealing 10,000 properties a year. And if that is not enough to tax our gallbladders, the IRS is now complaining the new law is too tough. Beam me up here. It is time to tell these crybaby IRS thieves that we are going to pass a 15 percent flat sales tax and abolish them altogether. I yield back what should be the next endangered species in the United States of America: The Internal Rectal Service." - James A.Traficant - March 27, 2001 "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Marcus Porcius Cato, Major “It is a terrible thing when you think you got on a bandwagon and it turns out to be a garbage truck." - Ernst (Putzi) Hanfstaengl "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." - Thomas Sowell "When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway." - Paul Stanley / KISS Two thousand years ago, a Roman Senator suggested that all slaves wear white armbands to better identify them. "No," said a wiser Senator, "If they see how many of them there are, they may revolt." "As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities." --Voltaire "It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion." - Aristotle "If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril." - Sun Tzu "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom." - John Locke "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." - Charles Austin Beard "Grasp the subject, words will follow." - Marcus Porcius Cato, Major "Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him." - Ron Paul "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan "The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses." - Albert Einstein "Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. " - John Adams "The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands." - Spiro Agnew "Why do they teach social studies in elementary school? Shouldn't I be taught civics first, so I know what it means to be a citizen before I know the differences between them?!" - Sonny Thomas "No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education." - Plato "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan "Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams "Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance." - Sun Tzu "This [the Obama Administration] is absolutely the worst administration in our lifetime. They're in a tailspin. I don't know how this guy is going to finish his term. I really don't know. " - Hank Williams Jr. "It's bull, and I don't want to have to keep reacting to it" - Sarah Palin "In Coaching, you've got to have more discipline, and you've got to be more strict and just conservative, I think. It fits with the Republicans." - Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden on coaching and politics. "Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth." - Marcus Porcius Cato, Major "Our freedom can only be threatened by those who make the laws." - D. Morrisseau "Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big." - Theodore Roosevelt "Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators." - Zell Miller "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!" - Ronald Reagan "Once a wrong idea about reality has been formed, it becomes more difficult to discover the truth." - Unknown "War: The Only Way Americans Learn Geography” - unknown "Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts." - Ron Paul "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories." - Thomas Jefferson “There is no Freedom without Sacrifice; There is no Justice without Solidarity; and there will be no Future without Courage" "Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." - Abigail Adams "He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious." - Sun Tzu "Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. " - Barry Goldwater "Without a struggle, there can be no progress." - Frederick Douglass "Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have." - Davy Crockett "Let It Not Be Said, That We Did Nothing!" - Ron Paul "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger." - Nietzsche "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." - B.C. Forbes "The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats." - Theodore Roosevelt "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself." - John Locke "Poor People have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they are still poor." – Charles Barkley "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." - John Adams "The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. " - Barry Goldwater "THE IRS CAN NOW RAID CHURCHES - Mr. Speaker, imagine a raid by 150 policemen. Was it a mob bust in Russia? No. Was it a drug warehouse in China? No. It was a church in Indianapolis. That is right. The Internal Revenue Service raided a Baptist Church seizing the pastor, and, in fact, removing the pastor by force. Unbelievable. Now, everyone knows there is two sides to every story. Think about it. In America, you cannot pray in school, but now, the IRS can raid churches. Beam me up. America is going to hell in a hand basket. I yield back the Gestapo attitude that just keeps growing in our Federal Government." - James A. Traficant - February 28, 2001 "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan "The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." - Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook "People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction,and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." - James Baldwin "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of human rights to which this nation has always been committed." - President John F. Kennedy "I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. " - Unknown "We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. " - Davy Crockett "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain "When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose." - Frederick Douglass "Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense." - John Adams "The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. " - William Ellery "This corn is well grown and Carthage must be destroyed." - Marcus Porcius Cato, Major "Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition." - Ron Paul "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison "Opportunities multiply as they are seized. " - Sun Tzu "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. " - John Adams "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one." - A.J. Liebling "Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous." - Don Johnson "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - President John F. Kennedy "Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law, it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S. "Tell the federal gov't to cease and desist it's usurpation of State's Right's...or they will cease to exist. We are STATES! Not zip codes within the federal gov't." - Sonny Thomas "...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right... "- Thomas Paine "Fear is the foundation of most governments." - John Adams "If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?" - "The Law" by Frédéric Bastiat "I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well." - Gene Simmons / KISS "I predict future happiness for the Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson "Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?" - Barry Goldwater "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler "First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." - Rev. Martin Niemoller "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be." - Thomas Jefferson "If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it." - Julius Caesar "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" - Thomas Jefferson "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. " - Samuel Adams "Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." - John Quincy Adams "The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life." - Paul Stanley / KISS "The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology." - Ronald Reagan January 20, 1981 “In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. "Until the possible becomes actual, it is only a distraction." - Qui-Gon Jinn "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." - Pericles "My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. " - Gene Simmons / KISS "Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." - Ayn Rand "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” - Albert Einstein "I shall exert every faculty I possess in aiding to prevent the Constitution from being nullified, destroyed, or impaired; and even though I should see it fail, I will still, with a voice feeble, perhaps, but earnest as ever issued from human lips, and with extinguish, call on the people to come to its rescue." – Daniel Webster "States have Rights! Rights which are guaranteed to us under the 9th and 10th Amendments through the Constitution of these United STATES ! And if the Federal Gov't refuses to acknowledge those rights, I say we send them our own 'Declaration of Independent STATES' and then we form OUR OWN COUNTRY! If Sucession Comes, "Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head." - George C. Wallace "To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men." - Abraham Lincoln "I shall assume that your silence gives consent." - Plato "Cowards die many times before their actual deaths." - Julius Caesar "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and provide for it." - Patrick Henry “Dissent is the greatest form of patriotism”. - Thomas Jefferson "We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all." - Theodore Roosevelt "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce." - Sun Tzu "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams "I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress." - Ronald Reagan "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps the most to be dreaded because it compromises and develops the germ of every other." - James Madison "Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law." - Marus Tullius Cicero “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth”. - George Washington "...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp." - Ronald Reagan “One… with courage makes a majority”. - Andrew Jackson “Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to handle conflict through peaceful means”. - Ronald Reagan "When goods don't cross borders, soldiers will." - Fredric Bastiat "Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins." - Ayn Rand "All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it." - Alexis de Tocqueville "In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power." - Marcus Tullius Cicero "They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people." - Thomas Jefferson "Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?" - George C. Wallace "The moral and constitutional 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 "More law, less justice." - Marcus Tullius Cicero "The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already." - Edward Abbey "Each of us should choose which course of action we must take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul "Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators." - Zell Miller “…That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, |
