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Quote Archives Listed Alphabetically by Author Q-S Ayn
Rand "If
it is now believed that my fellow men may sacrifice me in any manner
they please for the sake of whatever they deem to be their
own good, if they believe that they may seize my property simply
because they need it -- well, so does any burglar. There is only this
difference: the burglar does not ask me to sanction his act."
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or
“The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in
the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of
another.” Ronald
Reagan "I've
spoken of the shining city all my political life. In my mind it was a
tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept,
God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and
peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity.
And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors
were open to anyone with the will and heart to get here." President
Ronald Reagan Farewell
Address to the Nation January
11, 1989
"The taxpayer -
that's someone who works for the federal
"If
we do not stand up to be counted, we will have to
Generosity
is a reflection of what one does with his or her own resources and not
what he or she advocates the government to do with everyone's money.
Ronald
Reagan, 1984
It is time
to realize that profit, property and freedom are inseparable. You
cannot have any one of them without the others.
Ronald
Reagan, 1974
Lawrence Reed
“Many Europeans see us as heartless and uncaring because we don't expect Uncle
Sam to coddle us from cradle to grave. But because we still largely take care of
ourselves and of those around us, we don't drop dead by the tens of thousands
when the temperature goes up.” --Lawrence Reed
Leonard E. Read
“There is really nothing that
can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only
individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only
individuals can combat statism.” -- Leonard E. Read Thomas
B. Reed
"One of
the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this
world are to be cured by legislation."
George Reisman
The truth is that economic competition is the
very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in
the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal
kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and
additional wealth.
-- George Reisman H.L.
Richardson
“Dogs bark, snakes wiggle, jackasses bray, vultures vomit and radical
Leftists lie, it’s their nature to do so.” – Senator H.L. Richardson,
Ret. In Confrontational Politics Llewellyn
H. Rockwell Jr. The
laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't
go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.
And that's beginning to happen. More than six decades of hard work for
American liberty beginning with the Old Right opposition to the
Roosevelt Revolution and continuing with the Mises Institute, is
beginning to bear fruit. --Llewellyn
H. Rockwell, Jr. Peter Roff
“There are some who
derive profit, power or prominence by exploiting America's racial
divisions. They keep hate, rather than hope, alive for many of the very
same people whose interests they profess to have in mind.”
Peter Roff Will Rogers
"Lord, the money we do spend on government and it's not one bit better than the
government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago." --Will Rogers
“Diplomacy is the art of saying
'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.”-- Will Rogers
Richard Rumbold "I am sure
there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world
with a saddle upon his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him."--
Richard Rumbold (1679)
Arthur
Schopenhauer All
truth passes through three stages: Felix E.
Schelling
Hans Sennholz
It is as
if we have two souls in our breasts: one that seeks to live by
Judeo-Christian principles, and one that loves to steal and plunder,
especially by majority vote.
Hans
Sennholz George
Bernard Shaw "The reasonable man adapts
himself to the world; the unreasonable
Richard
E. Sincere, Jr. “In a free
society, standards of public morality can be measured only by whether
physical coercion – violence against persons or property –occurs.
There is no right not to be offended by words, actions, or symbols.”
– Richard E. Sincere, Jr.
Joseph
Sobran "Can
the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans
depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn' t
authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only
envy. Ignorant people don'
t understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government
checks with their names on them." - Joseph Sobran (from "The
Silent Revolution," December 5, 2000) We are taught that the change from monarchy to democracy is progress;
that is, a change from servitude to liberty. Yet no monarchy in Western
history ever taxed its subjects as heavily as every modern
democracy taxes its citizens…. Democracy has proved only that the best
way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are
ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully
submissive slaves. Thomas
Sowell ~"Affirmative
action is great for black millionaires, but it has
~"An
independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making
decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay
no price for being wrong.”
~~"The
first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything
to satisfy all those who want it. The
first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of
economics."
"Guns are completely
inappropriate for the kind of sheep-like people the anointed envision or
the orderly, prepackaged world in which they are to live. When you are in
mortal danger, you are supposed to dial 911, so that the police can arrive
on the scene some time later, identify your body and file reports in
triplicate."
- Columnist Thomas Sowell
~~People who
are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are
often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of
all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the
intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially
to impose ignorance on knowledge.
Thomas
Sowell
~~Mystical
references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts
of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the
hands of bureaucrats. ~~The poverty rate among
blacks fell by half between 1940 and 1960, before any of the major federal
civil rights legislation or the vast expansion of the welfare state under
President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs...In short, most blacks
raised themselves out of poverty, but their leaders robbed them of this
achievement and the respect it deserved ...by making it seem like a
concession from the government and a product of agitation. Thomas Sowell ~~What is scary about our times is how easy it is
to get Americans to give up our most basic rights if you just use some
pretty words. You can violate the "equal protection of the laws"
provided by the 14th Amendment if you use the word "diversity" and you
can violate the free speech protections of the First Amendment if you
call it "campaign finance reform." Thomas Sowell The sad irony is that it is the self-righteous
activists who are exploiting Third World people -- politically -- and
the much demonized employers who hire them who are providing the poor
with much-needed income. Thomas Sowell
What is politically defined as economic "planning" is the forcible
superseding of other people's plans by government officials. Socialism in
general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual
could ignore or evade it. “The constant whining and
complaining of today's snivel rites "leaders" may be a passing annoyance
to some whites but the real -- and tragic -- victims are those in the
younger generation among blacks who buy the idea that the deck is so
stacked against them that there is no point doing their best in school or
on the job. They will be paying a huge price for that attitude for the
rest of their lives.” Thomas
Sowell
"One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who
produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who
complain." --
No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who
criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?"
When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? “The only people whose taxes can be
cut are people who are paying taxes… That ensures that any serious tax
cut will qualify as "tax cuts for the rich" -- as defined by liberals.
How they get away with this phony stuff is one of the mysteries of our
time.” ~~Thomas Sowell ~“As
long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending
the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical
stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating
imperfections is the price of freedom.” --Thomas Sowell
Herbert Spencer
The
ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill
the world with fools.
Josef
Stalin "Those
who cast the votes decide nothing.
Supreme
Court; Savings and Loan Assc. v. Topeka "To
lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the
citizen and with the other to bestow upon favored individuals, to aid
private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a
robbery because it is done under forms of law and is called
taxation." - Vin Suprynowicz
"By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites.
Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored
under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the
20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of
Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't
read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy
quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real
money on schooling as we did 60 years ago." --Vin Suprynowicz |
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