Category: Quote O’ The Day

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
— Milton Friedman

“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
– William F. Buckley, Jr.

“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.”
– John Locke, 2nd Treatise on Government.

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
–William F. Buckley

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
– attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto IJN

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
— Winston Churchill

Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the U.S. are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts – Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
— Abraham Lincoln

I was born with something inside me that refuses to settle for average,
and I am grateful for it. – unknown.

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.
— George Will

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” —George Orwell

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem…. We’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.
— Ronald Reagan

“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”
— Ronald Reagan

Without real data, the human mind ceases to function, and its disparate parts begin hallucinating information that doesn’t exist, and which will often be confidently and violently defended. The modern political Left is a product of delusional psychology that’s hell bent on enacting the worst possible policies because its adherents are fundamentally neurologically broken… and they may not be fixable. – Copernican

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
– Supreme Court Justice Billings Learned Hand

“There appears to be no act of Congress that has ever designated a particular day as Thanksgiving Day. In short, this bill will fix the last Thursday in November as the permanent day for our annual Thanksgiving.”
– Earl Michener, Michigan 2nd Congressional District Representative October 6, 1941

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn’t expect you to thank him.
– Walter E. Williams

The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
— William Rawle, A View of the Constitution, 1829