Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-06-15 Jun 15, 2021America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good it will cease to be great.~ Alexis de TocquevilleAfter all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.~ Calvin CoolidgeIt is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.~ Camille Paglia Jun 14, 2021The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.~ Ludwig Von MisesHere in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerIn America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances you were born with.~ Amy Tan Jun 11, 2021These men - ..., the politicians, ... - use their position, their knowledge, and their power of disseminating misinformation to arouse and stimulate the latent instinct for bloodshed. When they have succeeded, they say they are reluctantly forced to war by the pressure of public opinion.~ Bertrand RussellThe history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.~ Friedrich August von HayekThe enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.~ Immanuel Kant Jun 10, 2021People may or may not say what they mean...but they always say something designed to get what they want.~ David MametWhen a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.~ Dresden JamesThose in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.~ Eric Hoffer Jun 9, 2021Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word “justice” into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason... and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play.~ Friedrich NietzscheAnyone who tells you that "It Can't Happen Here" is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no 'house rule' that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos.~ Mike VanderboeghNotice how some people even try to put socialists on the 'left' and fascists on the 'right' ... and then trap you into accepting the bizarre and evil notion that freedom is somehow a 'compromise' between, or a combination of, two allegedly 'opposite' collectivist extremes. This, of course, is absurd on its face, and actually leaves limited-government advocacy and the essence of freedom totally off the chart out of the picture.~ Rick Gaber Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print