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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
A classic since 1953 with over 20,000 quotes from over 3,000 authors.


Famous Last Words
Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bons Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure


Stretch Your Wings
Famous Black Quotations for the Young


American Quotations
An exhaustive collection of profound quotes from the founding fathers, presidents, statesmen, scientists, constitutions, court decisions


The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations


Last Words of Saints and Sinners
700 Final Quotes from the Famous, the Infamous, and the Inspiring Figures of History


America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations
Contains over 2,100 profound quotations from founding fathers, presidents, constitutions, court decisions and more


The Law
This 1850 classic is an absolute must read for anyone interested in law, justice, truth, or liberty. A most compelling and revolutionary look at The Law.


Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)


The Stupidest Things Ever Said by Politicians
Rise up, America -- and laugh out loud at the greatest gaffes that no spin doctor could possibly fix!


The 776 Even Stupider Things Ever Said
Another great collection of stupidity


Quotable Quotes
Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions from America's Most Popular Magazine


The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time
You don't have to be a genius to sound like one. Here's a collection of the most profound and provocative wit and wisdom in the English language in two lines or less.


2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs
Invaluable sampler of witticisms, epigrams, sayings, bon mots, platitudes and insights chosen for their brevity and pithiness.


Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts Funny Sayings
A stupendous collection of quotes, quips, epigrams, witticisms, and humorous comments for personal enjoyment and ready reference.


Quick Quips and Quotes; 532 Things I Wish I Had Said
Quick Quips and Quotes is the Ultimate Collection of one liners.


Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
The ultimate anthology of anecdotes, now revised with over 700 new entries.


Quotations for Public Speakers
A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology


Liberty - The American Revolution
This compelling series traces the events leading up to the war and America's fight for freedom.


Founding Fathers
The story of how these disparate characters fomented rebellion in the colonies, formed the Continental Congress, fought the Revolutionary War, and wrote the Constitution


Libertarianism: A Primer
David Boaz, director of the Cato Institute, has written a simple introduction to Libertarianism inteneded to appeal to disgruntled Democrats and Republicans everywhere.


The Libertarian Reader
Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman


Thomas Paine: Collected Writings
All the classics: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters

 
Edmund BurkeThe use of force alone is but temporary.  It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. 
Edmund BurkeAmong a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. 
Edmund BurkeTo govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil. 
Edmund BurkeIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. 
Edmund BurkeSociety cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. 
Edmund BurkeMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. 
Edmund BurkeIt is by this tribunal that statesmen [are tried] not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence but upon the enlarged and solid principles of morality. 
Edmund BurkeBut what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. 
Edmund BurkeWhen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. 
Edmund BurkeIt is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. 
Edmund BurkeAll that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing. 
Edmund BurkeWhenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. 
Edmund BurkeThe age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. 
Edmund BurkeIn such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered. 
Edmund BurkeYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 
Edmund BurkePeople crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous... 
Edmund BurkeTell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. 
Edmund BurkeThere never was a bad man that had ability for good service. 
Edmund BurkeI dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded. ... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin. 
Edmund BurkeIn a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations. 
Edmund BurkeExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. 
Edmund BurkeToleration is good for all, or it is good for none. 
Edmund BurkePower gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. 
Edmund BurkeWe must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. 
Edmund BurkeLiberty must be limited in order to be possessed. 
Edmund BurkeThere are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times. 
Edmund BurkeLiberty, without wisdom, is license. 
Edmund BurkeThe first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. 
Edmund BurkeThe greater the power the more dangerous the abuse. 
Edmund BurkeAll men have equal rights, but not to equal things. 
Edmund BurkeThe tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. 
Edmund BurkeThe people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. 
Edmund BurkeThere is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations. 
Edmund BurkeThe great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another. 
Edmund BurkeThere is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. 
Edmund BurkeThere is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. 
Edmund BurkeThose who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it. 
Edmund BurkeTo prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself. 
Edmund BurkePeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. 
Edmund BurkeThe only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle. 
Edmund BurkeIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. 
Edmund BurkeMy vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. 
Edmund BurkeThe true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. 
Edmund BurkeNobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. 
H. Sterling BurnettGuns are used for self-defense somewhere between 800,000 and 3.6 million times per year .... Using firearm crime and defensive gun use figures most favorable to advocates for stricter gun control, ... the benefits from defensive gun uses exceed the cost of violent firearm crimes ... by between $90 million and $3.5 billion. Using the most credible estimate for defensive gun uses, the benefits range from $1 billion to $38 billion. Putting these dollar figures in more human terms: Guns save lives. The fact is that the best defense against violence is an armed response. For example, women faced with assault are 2.5 times less likely to suffer serious injury if they defend themselves with a gun rather than responding with other weapons or by offering no resistance. ... [P]ersons defending themselves with guns during an assault are injured only 12 percent of the time, compared to 25 percent for those using other weapons, 27 percent for those offering no resistance and nearly 26 percent of those who flee. ... [F]irearms are the safest, most effective way to protect oneself against criminal activity -- which is why American police officers carry guns rather than going unarmed or merely carrying knives. 
George BurnsToo bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. 
Robert BurnsDare to be honest and fear no labor. 
Robert BurnsLiberty's in every blow! Let us do or die. 
William S. BurroughsOnce the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them. 
William S. BurroughsAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. 
Sir Richard Francis BurtonDo what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws. 
Sir Richard Francis BurtonThe dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. 
Edwin Arthur BurttAs compared with impulsive commitment to the first idea which dawns, that is, with intuitive action, reasoning is patient, exploratory of other possibilities, and deliberative. 
Barbara BushYour success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but what happens inside your house. 
George Herbert Walker Bush[The war in Iraq is] a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times...a new world order can emerge. 
George Herbert Walker BushYou know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature. 
George Herbert Walker BushIf we do not follow the dictates of our moral compass and stand up for human life, then this lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we’ve all worked toward for so long. 
George Herbert Walker BushFreedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American. 
George Herbert Walker BushIt was just one year ago that the world saw this new, invigorated United Nations in action as this Council stood fast against aggression and stood for the sacred principles enshrined in the U.N. Charter. And now it's time to step forward again, make the internal reforms, accelerate the revitalization, accept the responsibilities necessary for a vigorous and effective United Nations. I want to assure the members of this Council and the Secretary-General, the United Nations can count on our full support in this task. 
George Herbert Walker BushFor two centuries we’ve done the hard work of freedom. And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity. What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea—a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future. 
George Herbert Walker BushMy vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function. 
George Herbert Walker BushWe will succeed in the Gulf. And when we do, the world community will have sent an enduring warning to any dictator or despot, present or future, who contemplates outlaw aggression. The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a new world order—where brutality will go unrewarded, and aggression will meet collective resistance. 
George Herbert Walker BushUltimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order. Perhaps the world order of the future will truly be a family of nations. 
George Herbert Walker BushWe have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the rule of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the UN’s founders. 
George Herbert Walker Bush (False)It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance. 
George Herbert Walker BushIf the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.  
George W. BushLet us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty. 
George W. BushWe must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. 
George W. BushWe have every reason to assume the worst. 
George W. BushToday the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be. 
George W. BushThe Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today. 
George W. BushI don’t give a goddamn. I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper! 
George W. BushWe will fight with full force and might of the United States military. 
George W. BushSaddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger. 
George W. BushWe need an energy bill that encourages consumption. 


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