“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.”
-Judge Gideon J. Tucker
Category Archives: Quotes
Liberty of a Nation
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Fear Government
“The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it”
-Jeff Cooper
TYRANNY-Conspiring To Kill Me
TYRANNY
We Must Look To The Past To Know The Future
I know that there are scores of people plotting to kill me, and this is not difficult to understand. After all, did we not seize power by plotting against our predecessors? However, I am far cleverer than they are. I know they are conspiring to kill me long before they actually start planning to do it. This enables me to get them before they have the faintest chance of striking at me.
-Saddam Hussein
Severely Limited
“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words “no” or “not” employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.”
-Edmund Opitz
Weakness
“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Constitution
“The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them.”
-Jason Laumark
My Country
“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
-G.K. Chesterton
National Honor
“National honor is national property of the highest value.”
-James Monroe
TYRANNY-The Press
“The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.”
-Joseph Stalin
