Favorite Quotes

“Ever notice in addresses from the Oval Office how Obama now has a tip jar on his desk? I don’t know if that’s appropriate.” -Frank J. (more)

Fred Thompson

“Funny how Democrats are only big on “options” when they’re taking away your choices.” via Twitter

Favorite Quotes

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Favorite Quotes

Ann Coulter:

• “Democrats couldn’t care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can’t look at themselves in the mirror.”
• “We’ve finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don’t want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.”
• “If we’re so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren’t they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?”
• “Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country.”

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Unknown:

• “My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that’s what she said.”

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Robert Jarvik:

• “Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.”

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Sarah Palin:

• “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”

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Proverbs/Sayings:

• “It is better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

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Edward Abby:

• “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

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Abraham Lincoln:

• “To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.”
• “Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
• “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

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Tracy Byrd:

• (A Good Way To Get On My Bad Side)
  “Politician on my TV,
  Says he’s only lookin’ out for me
  Says he knows what the poor man needs in the long run

  But every year he gives himself a raise,
  Gets a chunk with every buck I make
  Now he’s talkin’ like he wants to take my shotgun”

• (A Good Way To Get On My Bad Side)
  “There oughtta be a law against cowboy rap,
  And all that boy band crap,
  A little sissy in a cowboy hat ain’t country”

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George Washington:

• “Government is not reason. It is not eloquence, it is force; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
• “A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”
• “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
• “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
• “Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
• “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
• “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
• “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
• “It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” (Guns, anyone?)
• “Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”
• “The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”
• “The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.” (*cough* Biden *cough*)
• “The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
• “The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”
• “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”

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Thomas Paine:

• “That government is best which governs least.”
• “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
• “A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
• “Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.”
• “Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
• “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
• “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
• “I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.”
• “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
• “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
• “If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.”
• “It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. ”
• “It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
• “It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.”
• “Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
• “The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
• “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
• “To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”

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Ronald Reagan:

• “Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”
• “Trust, but verify.”
• “Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.”
• “We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”
• “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
• “We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”
• “We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.”
• “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”
• “We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.”
• “Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
• “Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
• “You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.”
• “Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.”
• “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”
• “I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.”

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Ronald Reagan:

• “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”
• “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!”
• “Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
• “One picture is worth 1,000 denials.”
• “One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.”
• “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
• “Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”
• “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”
• “Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in’.”
• “Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.”
• “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
• “The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
• “The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.”
• “They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.”
• “Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”
• “To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.”
• “To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.”

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Ronald Reagan:

• “I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.”
• “I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.”
• “I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.”
• “I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”
• “I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.”
• “If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.”
• “If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.”
• “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
• “Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”
• “Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”
• “Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.”
• “Man is not free unless government is limited.”
• “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”