Smart Men
"We
contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is
like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by
the handle."
-- Winston Churchill
"Government big
enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take
everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a
government grows, liberty decreases." ~Thomas Jefferson ~
Thirty-five
percent of Americans, according to a 2004 Pew Research survey,
call themselves conservative, while only 22 percent call
themselves liberal (43 percent call themselves moderate) - a 3
percent increase in conservatives since 1992. There is a reason
for this - liberals keep getting it wrong.
Larry Elder
In choosing a president, we really don't choose
a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a
leader.
Rudolph W.
Giuliani
Ecclesiastes 10:2: "A
wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's
heart directs him toward the left."
George
Washington: "It may be laid down as a primary position, and
the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the
protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his
property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
Thomas Jefferson: "The
tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood
of patriots and tyrants."
Abraham
Lincoln: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If
we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed
ourselves."
Theodore Roosevelt:
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting;
but never hit soft."
George
Orwell: "Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Winston Churchill: "If
you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a
conservative at 40, you have no head."
Dwight
D. Eisenhower: "History does not long entrust the care of
freedom to the weak or timid."
John Wayne: "Sure I wave
the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love
my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never
have been, never will be."
Ronald
Reagan: "We will always remember. We will always be proud. We
will always be prepared, so we may always be free."
George W. Bush: "I hear
you, we all hear you, and the people who knocked down these
buildings [WTC] will hear ALL of us soon!"
"Life consists
not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
"A camel is a
horse designed by committee."
"When buying
and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be
bought and sold are legislators."
"I do not
believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been
given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an
unorthodox enemy."
"The
politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They
want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and
helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of
both."
"The hardest
thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
"Tax reform
means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the
tree.'"
"Success always
occurs in private, and failure in full view."
"A successful
person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that
others throw at him."
"I don't know
the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone."
"The
thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
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