Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-05-30 May 30, 2023No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.~ Edwin Hubbel ChapinThe true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.~ Jacob G. HornbergerAll might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.~ Samuel Adams May 29, 2023Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.~ Thomas PaineIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.~ General George S. Patton, Jr.I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.~ Nathan Hale May 26, 2023You don't have to scratch liberalism very deeply to find socialism underneath, nor socialism to find authoritarianism underneath.~ Don LuskinAn oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.~ Henry ClayAll lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.~ James Burgh May 25, 2023When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed...~ Civil Servants' Year BookThe fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.~ George GilderImagine the traditionalist as living in synopticon—a suspect that is the target of 24/7 viewing, indoctrination, and conditioning by progressive auditors. In other words, a 40-45 percent minority of Americans is relentlessly lectured, sermonized, demonized, and neutered by a 360- degree ring of prying institutional overseers. There is no escape. There is no respite. There is no quarter given.~ Victor Davis Hanson May 24, 2023[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.~ George WashingtonIf aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges.~ Justice Joseph Story[N]othing can be more opposed [to American principles] than the maxims of absolute monarchies. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greater number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogenous, incoherent, distracted mass.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print