Category Archives: Quotes

Pickpocket

Quote of the Day

“The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket doesn’t get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.”
-Joseph Sobran

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Failure to Observe

Quote of the Day

“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.”
-Justice Tom C. Clark

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Sword and the Purse

Quote of the Day

“Let Mr. Madison tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people? Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.”
-Patrick Henry

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Domestic Oppression

Quote of the Day

“A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.”
-James Madison

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Civil Freedom

Quote of the Day

“The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom.”
-Robert A. Heinlein

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