Famous Americans Quote Threads

Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture, under Dwight D Eisenhower:

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.

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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman

"If Voting Made a Difference, They Wouldn’t Let Us Do It" - Mark Twain

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”

"No way!!!! We landed on the moon." - Dumb or was it Dumber

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"If Voting Made a Difference, They Wouldn’t Let Us Do It" - Mark Twain

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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

W.C. Fields

The tests are not unfair, life is unfair, and the test measure the results - Thomas Sowell

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring Liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth - h l Mencken

Freedom is never more than one generation away from Extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our Sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. - Ronald Reagan

I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs - Frederick Douglass

Socialism only works in two places: heaven, where they don't need it and hell, where they already have it - Ronald Reagan

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dances are in a Confederacy against him - Jonathan Swift

When freedom is outlawed, only Outlaws will be free - Tom Robbins

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the Injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them - Frederick Douglass

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid - Benjamin Franklin

In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man Brave, hated, and scorned. When has caused succeeds, however, the timid join him, but then it cost nothing to be a patriot. - Mark Twain

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have - Thomas Jefferson

The reward for Conformity is that Everyone likes you but yourself - Rita Mae Brown

The misfortune of a republic is when intrigues are at an end; which happens when the people are gained by bribery and corruption: in this case they grow indifferent to public affairs, and avarice becomes their predominant passion. Unconcerned about the government and everything belonging to it, they quietly wait for their hire.

- Montesquieu

"I will be eternally grateful that I got my education before it was fashionable for white people to like black people."...Walter Williams 2012

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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

“When the government fear the people, there is democracy.” -Thomas Jefferson

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