Quotes

"When Barbary Pirates demand a fee for allowing you to do business, it's called 'tribute money'. When the Mafia demands a fee for allowing you to do business, it's called 'the protection racket'. When the State demands a fee for allowing you to do business, it's called 'sales tax'."

                                                                                                                                 -Jeff Daiell

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo its use."

                                                                                                                            -Galileo

"Love your country but never trust its government."

                                                                                                 -a hand-painted road sign in central Pennsylvania

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too."

                                                                                                                                 -W. Somerset Maugham

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure."
                                                                                              -Albert Einstein

 

"The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

                                                                                              -Goethe

 

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
                                                                                 -Mahatma Ghandi

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."        

                                                                                                  –Barry Goldwater

 

"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."


                                                 -Henry David Thoreau

 

"Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right."

                                                                                    -Ayn Rand     

        

"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms." 

                                              -Samuel Adams

"There can never be human happiness in a society that imposes a rule of "equality" which disregards merit and rewards incompetence." 

                                                                                                                                                            -David Lawrence

 

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." 

                                                                                                     -Thomas Jefferson 

 

"Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it."

                                                                                              -Thomas Paine

 

"Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty."

                                                                                            -Woodrow Wilson

 

"Independence is more valuable than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it."

                                                                                            -Saadi

 

"Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others - misfortune is not a mortgage on achievement - failure is not a mortgage on success - suffering is not a claim check, and its relief is not the goal of existence - man is not a sacrificial animal on anyone's altar nor for anyone's cause - life is not one huge hospital."    

                                                                                                            -Ayn Rand

 

"To be independent is the business of a few only; it is the privilege of the strong."

                                                                                            -Nietzsche