Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-04-08 Apr 8, 2004Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.~ Ronald ReaganMan is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts.~ Ronald ReaganOurs was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I've tried to do these past eight years.~ Ronald ReaganYou and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.'~ Ronald Reagan Apr 7, 2004No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.~ Theodore RooseveltTo divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.~ Theodore RooseveltWhen they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'~ Theodore Roosevelt Apr 6, 2004The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.~ James MadisonWith respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.~ James Madison... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.~ James Madison Apr 5, 2004I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.~ Harry S. TrumanWhen you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.~ Harry S. TrumanYou can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.~ Harry S. Truman Apr 3, 2004Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be no successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections.~ Abraham LincolnIf you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.~ Abraham LincolnStand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.~ Abraham LincolnThe Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shephard as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.~ Abraham Lincoln Apr 2, 2004It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.~ George Bernard ShawIt is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.~ H. L. MenckenThe saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities -- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Apr 1, 2004When in charge, ponder... When in trouble, delegate... When in doubt, mumble.~ Dr. Jim BorenWhen the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.~ Bertrand RussellIf we can ever make red tape nutritional, we can feed the world.~ Robert SchaeberleSocialism is after all, the Viagra of politics...~ Michael Pierce Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print