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"Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right to religious freedom." --John Quincy Adams
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." --Sir Winston Churchill
"There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion." --Henry Ward Beecher
"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be." --Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace.." --Arthur J. Goldberg
"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." -- George Orwell
"What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?" --Grover Cleveland
"It is, when strictly judged, an act of public immorality to form and lead an opposition on a certain plea, to succeed, and then in office to abandon it." --William Ewart Gladstone
"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned." --Herbert Hoover
"Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession -- to defend it against every thrust from within and without." --Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right." --Henry David Thoreau
"Money will not purchase character or good government." --Calvin Coolidge
"The law of the Constitution is illuminated by the philosophy set forth in the Declaration of Independence, so the two documents are properly read together." --Joan Aylor Kirby
"Can you name one government reform that actually improved anything? How many times has Social Security been reformed? How about public education? Health care? Let's not forget the IRS! In Washington, 'reform' always means more spending, more taxes, more regulations, more bureaucrats, and less freedom." --Rep. Ron Paul
"A strong case can be made that the First Amendment has never been more threatened than it is now by those in American public life who seek to silence opponents by gutting their constitutional right to think, believe and say as they please." --Mark Tapscott
"Billions of dollars disappeared without a trace in just a few years. Honest auditors were scarcer than talking dogs. Worst of all, nobody questioned why so many insiders were giving their buddies outside lucrative contracts establishing cozy partnerships that were shot through with conflicts of interest. No, Enron had nothing to do with it. The culprit is none other than Uncle Sugar, proprietor of the world's largest annual spending spree, the $1.4 trillion federal budget, and operator of what may well be the world's biggest and costliest example of fuzzy math in action." --Mark Tapscott
"In our postmodern, post Christian, post objective truth generation, celebrity equals credibility. Celebrities have replaced God. When they speak, some people think the rest of us should listen." --Cal Thomas
"...[C]ommon law, common sense, history and science all tell us that the very nature of a homosexual relationship deprives a child of the emotionally stable environment that he or she requires." --Armstrong Williams
"Only brave and independent people can preserve liberty. Are there a sufficient number of such people left in America? We shall see." --Chuck Baldwin
"Honesty, selflessness, caring, empathy and optimism were what made our country survive the awful times of our birth and two World Wars since. When we lose those special characteristics, we will lose our special place as a nation in a world looking for moral leadership." --John LeBoutillier
"Denying the existence of evil is so convenient for the cowardly, so effortless for the lazy, and so uninvolving for the indifferent." --David C. Stolinsky
"Never underestimate the ability of unelected bureaucrats to overturn the expressed will of the people if it threatens their power." --Linda Chavez
"Because liberals are determinists who deny free will and the existence of evil, everything is reduced to economics." --Don Feder
"Tax cuts aren't something you pay for. It's less money for the government to spend." --Ann Coulter
"If Andrea Yates has chosen to abort her children over the seven years in which she bore them rather than dispatch them all in a single afternoon, the nation would never have known and those who did would likely not even bat an eyelash." - Peter Roff
"Human rights are about universal moral standards, not someone's narrow political agenda." --Wall Street Journal
"In the former Soviet Union they are called 'zombie enterprises' - the dying, smokestack industries that can't compete in the market yet stagger on like the living dead because of the jobs, pensions and other benefits that make them so politically difficult to shut down.
"In Philadelphia they have their own version. Only here it's known as the public school system. With a third of its children dropping out before they see a high school diploma and only 13% of its 11th graders estimated as able to read a newspaper with any kind of comprehension, the Philadelphia school district long ago ceased to have any real connection to education.
"Like so many other urban school systems, this one is more accurately seen as a vast jobs program whose $1.8 billion annual budget feeds a host of interests: administrators, vendors, teachers, custodians, etc. Everyone, that is, except the kids." - Wall Street Journal
"The enemy in this war is not 'terrorism' -- a distilled essence of evil ... -- but militant Islam. The enemy has an ideology, and an hour spent surfing the Web will give the average citizen at least the kind of insights that he might have found during World Wars II and III by reading 'Mein Kampf' or the writings of Lenin, Stalin or Mao. Those insights, of course, eluded those in the West who preferred -- understandably, but dangerously -- to define the problem as something more manageable, such as German resentment about the Versailles Treaty, an exaggerated form of Russian national interest, or peasant resentment of landlords taken a bit too far. In the reported words of one survivor of the Holocaust, when asked what lesson he had taken from his experience of the 1940s, 'If someone tells you that he intends to kill you, believe him'." --Wall Street Journal
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