Men in authority will always
think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate
their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Author: Henry Steele
Most people, sometime in their
lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry
on about their business as if nothing had happened.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
You can't get rid of poverty
by giving people money.
Author: P.J O'Rourke
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater
than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek
not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds
you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that
ye were our countrymen.
Author: Samuel Adams
In the beginning of a change,
the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds
however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.
Author: Mark Twain
It is not the function of the
government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function
of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Author: Robert H. Parker
To compel a man to subsidize
with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors
is sinful and tyrannical.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
To disarm the people (is) the
best and most effectual way to enslave them...
Author: George Mason
True patriotism hates injustice
in its own land more than anywhere else.
Author: Clarence Seward Darrow
We are not weak, if we make proper
use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power... The
battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active,
the brave.
Author: Patrick Henry
It is our duty still to endeavor
to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought
on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring
whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
One of the great attractions
of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation
we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more,
with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Author: Aldous Leonard Huxley
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