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"It is customary in democratic countries to deplore expenditures on armament as conflicting with the requirements of the social services. There is a tendency to forget that the most important social service that a government can do for its people is to keep them alive and free." --RAF Air Marshall Sir John Slessor

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
--John Adams

"These days I can't read The New York Times' strong opinions without shaking my head sadly. Then I turn to its editorials." --Paul Greenberg

"If an enemy power is bent on conquering you, and proposed to turn all of his resources to that end, he is at war with you; and you -- unless you contemplate surrender -- are at war with
him." --Barry Goldwater

"I agree with the [Supreme Court's] holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now." --Justice Clarence Thomas

"There is no nation so poor that it cannot afford free speech, but there are few elites which will put up with the bother of it."
--Daniel P. Monahan

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin, 1759

"I'm not implacably opposed to changing the Constitution, but the way we do that is by amending it, not by simply 'reinterpreting' it based upon the gut instincts of a few unelected lawyers." --Jonah Goldberg

"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
--Milton Friedman

"When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,
he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it.
When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else,
he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat
less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money
to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he
buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man
spends someone else's money on someone else, he doesn't care how
much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government
for you." --Economist and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman

"We now have the biggest, most expensive federal government in
history. Federal employees are thicker than maggots on a rotting
carcass. So, why not start by abolishing vacant positions in
every department except Defense and Homeland Security. Congress
could set the example by cutting our own staff to show that we
are willing to stop feeding the hungry beast. [We] need that
tax-cutting Texan to also become a budget-cutting president. We
need more members of Congress to decide that now is the time to
cut taxes and at the same time tighten our belt. It's simple:
Collect fewer dollars; spend fewer dollars." --Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA)

"What is so terrible about 'negative advertising' during political campaigns? If a candidate is lying, why shouldn't those lies be exposed? And why shouldn't a bad record be an issue?"
--Thomas Sowell

"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor,
justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America."
--Theodore Roosevelt

"We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of dictatorship."
-- James Madison

"And whereas, James M. Jeffords deserves to be horsewhipped and thrown forever out of public office; therefore, be it RESOLVED, that horsewhipping now being illegal, the Republicans of the Town of Kirby will do anything arguably legal or unlikely to be discovered to retire James M. Jeffords from public life."
--Resolution passed by the Town Republican Committee of Kirby, Vermont

"This is what happens when your sole contact with the 'right wing'
consists of descriptions in New York Times editorials and West Wing
episodes." - James Lileks

"Unlike our GOP opponents, we have to prove that we will not raise taxes,
let all of the crooks out of prison, pour the public's money down a variety
of ratholes, double everybody's welfare check, condone the burning of the
American flag, let serial ax murderers escape the electric chair, confiscate
everybody's guns and take down the Christmas tree at City Hall."
U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) (6/22/01)

"Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it."
--George Bernard Shaw

"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."
John Marshall

The truth of the matter is that Richard Nixon was, perhaps, the most left-wing president in history in terms of domestic and economic policy. His reputation as a right-winger rests almost entirely on his role in exposing Alger Hiss as a Soviet agent back in the 1940s. For this, the left vilified Nixon to his dying day, which forced conservatives to support him even though he betrayed them.
-- Bruce Bartlett

"Democracy is a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."
--H.L. Mencken