 We don't get our rights because we're gays, or women, or minorities. We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.
Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_HuFtP8w8
"Presidents don't lose wars. Political parties don't lose wars. Nations lose wars."
Senator John McCain, R-Arizona
The planet's most serious danger is the government of the United States. The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer and a madman.
Hugo Chavez
http://www.brownpride.us/america-latina/chavezs-dynamic-speeches-connect/
The Vietnam war was...canceled, not lost.
John Armaos
RoR Was Vietnam Worth It?
People Sleep Peaceably in their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to do Violence on their Behalf.
George Orwell
http://theredhunter.com/war_on_terror/index.php
I swear eternal hate to the enemies of mind
Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rErukvYVPOI
As long as the arabs fight amongst themselves, they will remain a little people, a silly people, barbarous and cruel.
TS Lawrence
This land is the hope of the world
Mitt Romney
C-SPAN
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
http://quotes4all.net/quotations/margaret%20thatcher/quote_1360.html
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrels.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat
Government
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Mohandas Gandhi
To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.
Richard Dawkins
Freedom From Religion Foundation (http://www.ffrf.org/), Madison, Wisconsin, September 2001
The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us -- That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
Ron Paul
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ron_Paul
The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. And a state which postpones the interest of their mental expansion and elevation to a little more of an administrative skill, of that semblance of which practice gives in the details of business, a state which dwarves its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in it’s hands, even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished, and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything will in the end avail it nothing. For want of the vital power, which in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish.
John Stuart Mill
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction.
Ayn Rand
Negotiations without arms are like music books without instruments.
Aesop (ca. 550 BC)
Frederick the Great, the 18th century Prussian monarch and gifted musician and favorite quote of Robert Gates
"They took out Saddam Hussein and they hanged him, for good or worse. It's not up to me to judge any government, but that gentleman was the president of that country."
Hugo Chavez
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/21/D8MPUDV00.html
Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.
Benito Juárez
Blue gray haired old Christian spinsters bitter for wasting all those fruitful years now just waiting for those pearly gates. These are truly the wicked. You have seen them before. With their bogus self-righteousness they strut and sneer. How far we have not come.
Chuck Smalkowski
"Just Another Salem," American Atheist, August 2006
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald Ford
If anarchy is identified with chaos, destruction and death, then the distinction between anarchy and government does not tell us much.
Kenneth N. Waltz
Anarchy and It's Consequences.
Freedom is not the product of our power and wealth. Our power and wealth are a product of our freedom.
Senator John McCain, R-Arizona
C-SPAN Road to the White House 2008, Annual GOPAC Dinner
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Barry Goldwater
Acceptance Speech as the 1964 Republican Presidential Candidate
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
It is an ironic truth that those who seek to create systems which most assume the perfectibility of humans end up building the systems which are most soul destroying and most rigid, systems that rot from within until like great creaking rotten oak trees they collapse on top of themselves leaving a sour smell and decay. We saw it happen in 1989 with the astonishing fall of the USSR. Conversely, those systems which best take into account the complex, frail, brilliance of human nature and build in flexibility, checks and balances, and tolerance tend to survive beyond all hopes.
Adam Bosworth
http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000031.html
So here's what I don't understand: if profit is supreme, why doesn't a company like General Motors sell crack? Crack is a very profitable commodity. For every pound of cocaine that is transformed into crack, a dealer stands to make a profit of $45,000. The dealer profit on a two-thousand-pound car is less than $2,000. Crack is also safer to use than automobiles. Each year, 40,000 people die in car accidents. Crack, on the other hand, according to the government's own statistics, kills only a few hundred people a year. And it doesn't pollute.
Michael Moore
http://www.michaelmoore.com/dogeatdogfilms/whydoes.html
"I don't need to be lectured by you. You are no more a protector of the Constitution than am I."
Arlen Specter
shouted after Sen. Russ Feingold declared his opposition to the amendment, his affinity for the Constitution and his intention to leave the meeting.
I have heard Republicans who have read the Book of Mormon express astonishment that any rational person could believe that.
Robert Novak
"Religion may hinder Romney in '08", Chicago Sun-Times
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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
The Free Dictionary - Quotation of the Day
When I visit a mosque, I show my respect by taking off my shoes. I follow the customs, just as I do in a church, synagogue or other holy place. But if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.
Flemming Rose
Why I Published Those Cartoons
Democrats make sure we all share our toys, just like Mommy does.
Jeremy Zilber
http://littledemocrats.net/
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
The Free Dictionary - Quotation of the Day
Every immigrant makes America more American.
Ronald Reagan
It's the perfect solution to the "Middle East peace process": out of sight, out of mind. And given that Ahmadinejad's out of his mind, we're already halfway there.
Mark Steyn
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn11.html
The only two things a pirate will run for is money and public office.
Yosemite Sam
Just for the record, WMD was never my rationale. As I've said on many occasions, when it comes to toppling dictators, there's no such thing as an "illegitimate" rationale. In his obstruction of U.N. weapons inspectors, Saddam certainly acted as if he had WMD and, in his "trade" missions to Niger (principal exports: uranium, goats, cowpeas, and onions), as if he were eager to acquire more. There's something to be said for taking a chap at his word.
Mark Steyn
http://www.nationalreview.com/issue/steyn200511070904.asp
Anarchism is the most irrational, anti-intellectual notion ever spun by the concrete-bound, context-dropping, whim-worshiping fringe of the collectivist movement.
Ayn Rand
The Objectivist: September 1971
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
Robert Anson Heinlein
More from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long / Time Enough for Love
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel Johnson
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/samueljohn135383.html
The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybartic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must first know that he is wrong. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. These will be our weapons.
Salman Rushdie
Step Across This Line
What do firefighters fight? Fire. what do crimefighters fight? Crime. What do freedom fighters fight?
George Carlin
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
US President Grover Cleveland, 1887, upon vetoing legislation for relief for drought-striken Texas farmers
The American Republic will last only until its politicians discover that they can bribe their people with their own money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Seen on FARK.com
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I do agree Muslim Americans are just as law abiding and patriotic as most others bla bla bla.But can we stop pretending there is absolutely NOTHING intrinsic to Islam that promotes fanatical zealotry, terrorism, and violence against women?Can we stop pretending that what young Muslim boys are learning in Madrasahs of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan is good old fahsioned "love thy neighbor" theology?Can we stop ignoring the fact that the subjugation of women is a scripturally based tradition?Can we ignore the fact that Islam has become a religion bankrupt of intellectualism?Can we ignore the fact that any public figure who voices these concerns faces death threats?Say what you want about Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and the rest of the whackjob religious right, but if you criticize them on TV, one does not typically need to worry about being shiskabobbed by a motorcycle riding zealot.
Simon Magus
FARK.com, "Iranian president willing to share nuclear technology with other Arabic nations" thread at 2005-09-15 06:44:49 PM
[New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark]... never had a grand vision for New Zealand. She had a grand vision for herself.
Bob Jones
Radio Interview
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