The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise: Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.

P. J. O'Rourke

There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. . . .If we lose freedom here [in America], there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. 

Let's roll!  
(... the last words of passenger Todd Beamer before he, Thomas Burnett, and Jeremy Glick disabled United Airlines Flight 93 over Pennsylvania.)

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Democracy needs citizens not consumers. When people are merely consumers of politics, they are more easily manipulated. And in our time conformism is stronger than in the past.

When you turn on the light in the morning, you pay utility taxes.  When you brush your teeth, you pay water taxes. When you drive to work, you pay gas taxes and rising toll taxes. Before you get paid at work, they take out payroll taxes.  After you get paid at work, they take out income taxes -- state and federal. ...  And if these high taxes make you have to sell your home, you will then have to pay capital gains taxes.  Worse yet, if you become sick to death of all these taxes, they will make you pay estate taxes. 

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

Welcome to the craven and politically expedient world of  21st century journalism, kid.  It's a place where truth takes a back seat to "tolerance," non-conformists are neutered, and editors have turned into community handkerchief-bearers whose primary mission is to pacify the cheerless ranks of the perpetually aggrieved.

The young are moved by greatness. They are inspired by it. Children need heroes. They need them to lift life, to suggest a future you can be hungry for. They need them because heroes, just by being, communicate the romantic and yet realistic idea that you can turn your life into something great.

Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.  When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it.  When this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against it.

"Was not Jesus an extremist for love -- 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.'... Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist -- 'This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.' Was not Thomas Jefferson an extremist -- 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 
Letter from Birmingham Jail

I am struck by the high level of arrogance that often exists among those who maintain that there is no truth except what they would have us believe.... The idea of responsibility -- of
being accountable for one's actions -- has no meaning in a world where there is neither truth nor reality, but only endless interpretation.

Lynne Cheney
"Telling The Truth"

Most Americans would find it hard to believe that the Menominee public library has a more sophisticated tracking system for 'Winnie the Pooh' than Los Alamos has for highly classified nuclear weapons data..."

Congressman Bart Stupak
June 13, 2000

I reject the idea that Republicans build their big tent by compromising on profound moral issues.  They do so on the solid foundation of a committed conservative base who believe
enough in their candidate to enthusiastically support him.

David Limbaugh
May 16, 2000

“When I awoke in my hometown with my family today — Easter weekend — and learned of the tactics that had been used to seize Elian Gonzalez, my first thought was that this could only happen in Castro's Cuba.”

US Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott
April 22, 2000

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.

Robert Winthrop
Speaker of the House

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison
1788

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken
1920

This country was built on absolute certain traditions that should absolutely stay in. God is what this country is built on, and without God I don't think we're a nation.

Garth Brooks
George Magazine, April 1999

The pundits keep telling me that my stand on this issue puts my political fortunes in jeopardy. So be it. That revelation produces from me no flinching. There is a simple reason why: I know that in life dreams come and dreams go. But conscience is forever. I can live with the concept of not serving in Congress. I cannot live with the idea of remaining in Congress at the expense of doing what I believe to be right.

Congressman James E. Rogan
2/8/1999

There are issues of transcendent importance that you have to be willing to lose your office over. I can think of several; abortion is one, national defense is another, strengthening, not emasculating the concept of equal justice under the law. ... America is hungry for people who believe in something. You may disagree with us, but we believe in something.

Henry Hyde
1999

If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom--go from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Samuel Adams

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go around repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence.

American Socialist Charles A. Beard
1913

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

George Will

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.

(Anononymous)

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Sir Winston Churchill,
1941

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
1928

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