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'''“'''''It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom – never.'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Victor Davis Hanson, March&nbsp;26,&nbsp;2004'''
 
'''“'''''It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom – never.'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Victor Davis Hanson, March&nbsp;26,&nbsp;2004'''
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'''“'''''We American citizens are, basically, in a cold war with the 202 area code.'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Rachel Maddow, July 25, 2014'''
 
'''“'''''We American citizens are, basically, in a cold war with the 202 area code.'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Rachel Maddow, July 25, 2014'''
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'''“'''''For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Aristotle, ''Politics'', 384-322 BCE'''
 
'''“'''''For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Aristotle, ''Politics'', 384-322 BCE'''
  
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'''“'''''Any revolution anywhere in the world in the history of time, in the beginning, seemed hopeless.
 
'''“'''''Any revolution anywhere in the world in the history of time, in the beginning, seemed hopeless.
 
'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;David&nbsp;Letterman,&nbsp;November&nbsp;13,&nbsp;2014'''
 
'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;David&nbsp;Letterman,&nbsp;November&nbsp;13,&nbsp;2014'''
 
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'''“'''''Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
 
'''“'''''Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
 
'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Emma&nbsp;Lazarus, from the sonnet, "The&nbsp;New&nbsp;Colossus",&nbsp;1883'''
 
'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Emma&nbsp;Lazarus, from the sonnet, "The&nbsp;New&nbsp;Colossus",&nbsp;1883'''
 
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'''“'''''If you still believe the same thing you believed 15 years ago, then you're a joke, you're a fossil.
 
'''“'''''If you still believe the same thing you believed 15 years ago, then you're a joke, you're a fossil.
 
'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Malcolm&nbsp;Gladwell,&nbsp;November&nbsp;2014'''
 
'''''”'''<BR>'''-&nbsp;Malcolm&nbsp;Gladwell,&nbsp;November&nbsp;2014'''

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You know firemen... they always have to tell the guys, 'Don't break down the door because if you try the door knob, it's probably open.
- Terry Crews, May 19, 2014

Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor...
- Gallup poll, Dec. 5-8, 2013

Common sense, sometimes is worth a lot more than highly, highly sophisticated theories.
- Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF, April 10, 2014

Change is hard. Fixing what's broken is hard. Overcoming skepticism and fear of something new is hard. A lot of times folks would prefer the devil they know to the devil they don't... but today should remind us that the goal we've set for ourselves... that goal is achievable.
- Pres. Barack Obama, April 1, 2014

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- Pres. John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961

The whole government should be fired – make a change – a change is, get rid of the old and in with the new.
- Sally Barnes-Breen, whose father-in-law died while waiting to get an appointment at the VA

We need simple rules that everyone understands.
- John Stossel, May 2014

Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it
- Chinese proverb

Every brand new start needs new beginnings.
- Michelle Knight, commenting on her future after being freed from ten years of enslavement by a kidnapper. April 2014

I've been to Harvard, I've been to Columbia, and there's a lot of dumb people out there...
- Jesse Watters, Fox News, O'Reilly Factor

People who receive bribes give rise to a feeling of disgust and cause the public to despise the state's institutions. The taker of bribes is like a traitor who betrays the public trust that was given to him - trust without which a proper public service cannot be maintained.
- Judge David Rozen, Tel Aviv District Court, May 2014

I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.
- Ronald Reagan, October 28, 1980

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.
- Pres. Ronald Reagan, January 25, 1984

If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?
- Gerald Cohen, 2000

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
- John Basil Barnhill

It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom – never.
- Victor Davis Hanson, March 26, 2004

We American citizens are, basically, in a cold war with the 202 area code.
- Rachel Maddow, July 25, 2014

For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
- Aristotle, Politics, 384-322 BCE

Where laws end, tyranny begins.
- William Pitt, January 9, 1770

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
- Daniel Webster, June 3, 1834

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
- John C. Calhoun, January 1848

Humans have a right to do what humans do. That's it. End of story. There's no argument, there's no exceptions. Humans have rights – they get to do what humans get to do. Case closed, good night.
- David Letterman, April 3, 2013

I think you have to renew the spirit of liberty and build on it and improve on it.
- Ron Paul, August 3, 2014

One of the best inoculators against terrorist infiltration is a society in which everybody feels as if they have a stake in the existing order and they feel that their grievances can be resolved through political means rather than through violence.
- Pres. Barack Obama, August 6, 2014

...absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans.
- John Jay, November 7, 1787

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol II (1840)

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol II (1840)

“'Vote early and vote often,' the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.
- William Porcher Miles, in a Congressional speech, March 31, 1858

People spend twice as much on candy for Halloween than they did for the elections.
- Peyton Craighill, on the campaign financing "problem". C-SPAN, November 9, 2014

Long shots can change when people hear the ideas and your vision for the future.
- Bernie Sanders, C-SPAN Newsmakers, November 9, 2014

Any revolution anywhere in the world in the history of time, in the beginning, seemed hopeless.
- David Letterman, November 13, 2014

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- Emma Lazarus, from the sonnet, "The New Colossus", 1883

If you still believe the same thing you believed 15 years ago, then you're a joke, you're a fossil.
- Malcolm Gladwell, November 2014

[In 2014] the economy improved and Washington had nothing to do with it — other than getting out of the way.
- Major Garrett, CBS News; December 21, 2014

With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963

Our government must be fundamentally reformed.
- Carly Fiorina, January 24, 2015

Are the American people fit to govern themselves, to rule themselves, to control themselves? I believe they are.
- Theodore Roosevelt, March 12, 1912

Should parents be able to make the choice about measles vaccinations for their own kids?
This is a purely medical issue. Certainly you have to respect the parents and their need to do what's best for their children, but we hope that they make that decision based on solid scientific evidence ... there is a very, very safe vaccine [for measles].
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, February 12, 2015

What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today? Answer: Dissatisfaction with government.
- Top answer from an open-ended question asked of the American people; Gallup, March 5-8, 2015

[A house] built by corrupt builders is more likely to fall when it is stressed...
- Manual of Structural Engineering and Earthquake Code Compliance, 1988

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison, Speech in the Virgina Convention, June, 16, 1788

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
- James Madison, The Federalist #51, February 6, 1788

Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
- Edmund Burke, 1780

People never give up their liberty but under some delusion.
- Edmund Burke, 1784

Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst those sands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shriveled, meager, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke, January 9, 1795

On the one hand, I am pleased with where we are now relative to where we were, but the kinds of changes I think to drive us forward are going to take fundamental reform.
- Henry Paulson, April 27, 2015

There are all kinds of battles we have to fight, but we miss the forest for the trees if we don't also recognize that huge chunks of us citizens just give away our power. We'd rather complain than do something about it... Seize the power that you have. Make this democracy work.
- Pres. Barack Obama, August 6, 2015

There are so many out there right now who are trying to divide us – to create friction between all the factions of our society: a war on women; race wars; income wars; age wars; religious wars; you name it, there's a war on it... and you can get people fighting each other all the time... It is important for we the people of America to realize that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are trying to divide us. And if we can remember that, it will make a big difference as we go forward.
- Ben Carson, August 28, 2015


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