Quotes Added in October 2007
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
Antonin Scalia
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald Ford
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
Ah consensus... the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?
Margaret Thatcher
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Gaius Crispus
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
If one wishes to be an idealist, it's probably a good idea to become a hermit at the same time.
Charley Reese
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