Quotes
On this page I will place quotes that I like and find thought provoking. Enjoy and feel free to use them wherever you want, just remember to give credit to the author of the quote. Check back as more quotes are added.
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”
- Will Durant
“Ask not what your government can do for you, but what you can do for yourself and others”
- Progressive Libertarianism
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
-Albert Einstein
“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it cost nothing to be a patriot”
-Mark Twain
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
-George Washington
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
-George Washington
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them.” – -Albert Einstein
“Be the change you wish to see in the world”
-Mohandas Gandhi
“Education, is the key to freedom from ignorance and oppression.”
-Clif Deuvall
“Drug prohibitionists are like gun prohibitionists, they try to keep something that will always exist away from people because they don’t think they’re competent enough to use it, rather than educate them on its proper safe usage.”
- Stephen Carter
“Go ahead, and have the courage to open that door and to step outside your comfort zone. For though the challenges are many, the rewards are more valuable than you can imagine.”
- Ralph Marston
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
- Ray Bradbury
“Free cheese is only found in mousetraps.”
- Author Unknown
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
– John Quincy Adams
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”
- Pericles
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
- Henry Ford
“Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”
- Robert F. Kennedy
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
- James Madison
“The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.”
- Henry L. Stimson
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
- Robert Heinlein
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
- Bill of Rights Amendment 10
“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?”
- Gandhi
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe