Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Hazlitt

There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

David Morrison

What we're seeing here is a laying bare of the political process without the euphemisms, without the sugar-coating. People are recoiling.

John Glenn

What this does is create such cynicism and doubt about our whole political system that's it's a dangerous thing for the future, ... That's the reason why I wanted to take the broadest possible look at this thing.

Carl Pope

What this contest proves to me is that average people can solve problems better than our corporate and political leaders.

Henry Giroux

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.

Steven Miller

What happens is they sell out to the union. The union took over in the '60s and '70s, and administrators are under political pressure. They don't serve the kids. They serve their political masters.

Ron Shapiro

What makes it different is that it's not only a legal issue but it's been made a political issue. That makes the athlete much more vulnerable. These guys will keep stirring the pot and stirring the pot.

Scott Walker

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

John Street

We're going to take them to the Liberty Bell, ... We're going to take them to football games and baseball games.

Robert Green Ingersoll

What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

William Shakespeare

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

William Shakespeare

This liberty is all that I request.

William Shakespeare

Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

Charles Lamb

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

Charles Bradlaugh

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

Al Seckel

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Bob Black

To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.

Janet Frame

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Charlton Heston

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Charley Reese

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

Charles Koch

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

Dick Armey

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Dave Barry

I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.