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Are we governed by the best and brightest this country has to offer?
Why not?

Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. —Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964 (1909-1998)

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. —Ayn Rand

Its not charity if its at the point of a gun. —Unknown

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. —Frederic Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy (1846)

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of crisis, have no opinion. —Dante Alighieri

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. —James Dale Davidson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. —Thomas Jefferson

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. —Ronald Reagan

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. —Theodore Roosevelt

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and
desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means. —Albert Jay Nock

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have a fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves. —Winston Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime
Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965

Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production. —Ayn Rand

When you go home
Tell them for us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today.
—Anonymous
From outside the Marine cemetary on Iwo Jima (Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley, 2000)

In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low. And the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. —John F. Kennedy, Economic Club of New York, December 14, 1962 on supply side taxes cuts

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark. —Lord John Whorfin

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly 'reforming' their own
handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy 'reforming' is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times. —Lawrence W. Reed, economist, in The Freeman

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you. —William E. Simon

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. —G. Gordon Liddy

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. —Winston Churchill (1903)

The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.' —Harry Browne (1996 & 2000 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate)

I look upon an increase of the power of the State with the greatest fear, because although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all progress. We know of so many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State has really lived for the poor. —Mahatma Ghandi

My language has always been that of liberty and humanity, and I know by
experience that nothing so exalts a nation as the union of these two
principles, under all circumstances. —Thomas Paine, 1737-1809

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

With the 16th Amendment, the battle cry of the American Revolution of taxation by consent became a fraud. ... The working principle of a democratic society is that a law, to be just, must give equal treatment to all. That's what the founders had in mind when they required taxes to be 'uniform.' When the tax makers are let loose to discriminate in taxation and abandon rules of uniformity and apportionment, the door is open to extortion. —Charles Adams, Author, in Investor's Business Daily, April 14, 1998

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. —Alan Greenspan, US Federal Reserve Chairman, Wall Street Journal March 26, 1997

[Government] can't tax things like businesses or corporations, it can only tax people. When it says it's going to 'make business pay,' it is really saying it is going to make business help it collect taxes. —Ronald Reagan 1978

"Free men know what tyrants never learn, that the ultimate economic resource is the mind and energy of a free person. Only from a free mind comes the direction of all productivity and the innovation that is tomorrow's prosperity…" —George Roche, 1994

Do we live in a land governed by the people? Or have we become a nation that will tolerate — even celebrate — any evil justified by a handful of arrogant ruling elitists? —Joseph Farah 1999

Patriots' Corner Archive

James Madison:
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

Master Sargeant Roy P. Benevidez,
U. S. Army (Ret.) Medal of Honor, Vietnam:
"Our youth need role models. They need to know and understand the price that has been paid for the freedom we enjoy… The youth of America will be our future leaders." Quote taken from A Gathering of Eagles, by Col. Jimmie D. Coy. Reprinted with permission. Book may be purchased through amazon.com.

Words from the Word Archive

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." II Chronicles 7:14

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