Quotable Quotes

 

 

If you woke up this morning and there wasn't six feet of dirt in your eyes, it's going to be a pretty good day.  

Anthony Robbins

 

No one can foretell the future, but it can be certain that an optimist will have an optimistic future, while a pessimist will have a pessimistic future.

anonymous

 

Stupidity, too, is a gift from God, but it shouldn't be abused.

Pope John Paul II

 

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

Margaret Thatcher

 

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

James Madison

 

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

James Madison

 

Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.

Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776

 

When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776

 

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

Nicholas Cage (as Benjamin Franklin Gates) in

National Treasure (2004)

 

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

 

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Benjamin Franklin

 

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Benjamin Franklin

 

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.

Benjamin Franklin

 

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin

 

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free

President Ronald Reagan

Normandy, France

June 6, 1984

 

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

President Ronald Reagan

February 11, 1988

 

Republicans believe every day is 4th of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

President Ronald Reagan

 

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

President Ronald Reagan

December 10, 1986

 

I know what it's like to pull the Republican lever for the first time, because I used to be a Democrat myself, and I can tell you it only hurts for a minute and then it feels just great.

Ronald Reagan, 1980

 

I've been criticized for going over the heads of the Congress. So, what's the fuss? A lot of things go over their heads.

President Ronald Reagan, 1985

 

America is too great to dream small dreams.

President Ronald Reagan

 

Government is not the solution to our problems. Government IS the problem!

President Ronald Reagan

 

You may think this a little mystical, and I've said it many times before, but I believe there was a Divine Plan to place this great continent here between the two oceans to be found by peoples from every corner of the earth. I believe we were preordained to carry the torch of freedom for the world.

President Ronald Reagan

June 1990

 

Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way.

President Ronald Reagan

 

We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for 8 years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.

President Ronald Reagan

from his Farewell Address to the Nation

January 20th, 1989

 

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. Republic is one of those words.

John Wayne (as Davey Crockett) in

The Alamo (1960)

 

The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.

DeForest Kelley (as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy) in

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

 

You never make the poor rich by making the rich poor.

Dr. Art Laffer

 

People are not happy with the status quo.  People want honest government.

President George W. Bush

January 26, 2006

 

Other nations in history have fought in foreign lands and remained to occupy and exploit. Americans, following a battle, want nothing more than to return home.

President George W. Bush

May 1, 2003

 

Leaders lead; politicians play politics.

Rush Limbaugh, July 12, 2007 

 

Government cannot control an awakened citizenry.

Graham Hancock

on Coast To Coast AM with Art Bell

December 29, 2006

 

A fine is a tax for doing wrong; a tax is a fine for being successful.

Roger Hitchcock

on the Rush Limbaugh show

January 2, 2007

 

Those who seek the Truth find it.            

Kerry Thomas

 

Politicians who promise you the sky usually deliver nothing but hot air.

Kerry Thomas

 

If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.

anonymous