Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-05-31 May 31, 2023The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.~ H. L. MenckenThe highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.~ George McGovernAmericans find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. America is the land of the free and home of the brave -- we don't need a Patriot Act, because we are already patriots. We know freedom means responsibility, but I am not sure Congress and its domestic enforcement agencies do. More often than not, new security measures enacted by the government have resulted in more violations of the citizenry than terrorists have ever done. The terrorists want us to be afraid -- well, we are not afraid. Stop wasting dollars on this program -- it is not good for America. To give up essential liberty for a little security provides neither. The right to be left alone from government intrusion is the beginning of all freedoms.~ Eric Schaub 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print