“In any bureaucracy, there’s a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.” — Chris Fussell “The minute you’re working with the government, you’re dealing with bureaucracy, you’re dealing with time lags, you’re dealing with rigidity, you’re dealing with a slow pace.” — Bob Simon “Every year the Federal Government wastes billions […]
“If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.” — Thomas Jefferson “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” — John Adams “A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has […]
“I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I’m fascinated by it. I’m fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it.” — Bill Hicks, Comedian who died at 32 of pancreatic cancer. “The important thing to […]
“The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.” — Ted Nugent “I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the […]
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may only act by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” — Ayn Rand “From its earliest days, […]
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” — C.S. Lewis “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name […]
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” — John Adams, Notes for an Oration at Braintree, Massachusetts, 1772 “Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.” — Edmund Burke […]
“They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they’re coming from, and they have no idea where they’re going. And if that’s the case, how can we, as the public, trust the NSA with all of our information, with all of our private records, […]
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” — Frederick Douglas “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” — Benjamin Franklin “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell “We’re the only […]
“The founders knew that a democracy would lead to the same kind of tyranny the colonies suffered under King George III. Our founders intended for us to have a republican form of limited government…The word democracy appears in neither of our founding documents: our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.” — Walter Williams “Remember, democracy never […]
“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.” — Leon Trotsky “‘Lawfare’ is a weapon designed to destroy the enemy by using, misusing, and abusing the legal system and the media in order to raise a public outcry against that enemy.” — Professor Susan Tiefenbrun, Thomas Jefferson School of Law. “Just […]
“If a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.” — Frank Church 1975 “You can’t come forward against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free […]
“Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.” — Joseph B. Wirthlin “When you’re a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you’re smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify […]
“Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.” – John F. McManus “Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.” — Adlai E. Stevenson, Democrat politician and former UN Ambassador from […]
“You can’t love God without loving the Jewish people.” — Corrie Ten Boom “For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will He forsake his inheritance.” — Psalm 94:14 “Behold, I have engraven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.” — Isaiah 49:16 “Wherever replacement theology has […]