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Famous Quotes about Liberty
 
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Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.
-- Henry Campbell Black		 
What finally emerges from the ‘clear and present danger’ cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished…It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments—Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political “mistakes” without being subjected to governmental penalties.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
... any broad unlimited power to hold laws unconstitutional because they offend what this Court conceives to be the ‘conscience of our people’ ... was not given by the Framers, but rather has been bestowed on the Court by the Court.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the First Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The United States has a system of taxation by confession.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
It is my belief that there are “absolutes” in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize the oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all... It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
Among the religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, ethical culture, secular humanism and others.
-- Justice Hugo L. Black		 
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
-- Harry A. Blackmun		 
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.
-- Sir William Blackstone		 
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
-- Sir William Blackstone		 
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
-- Sir William Blackstone		 
It is better ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
-- Sir William Blackstone		 
[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.
-- Sir William Blackstone		 
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
-- Lawana Blackwell		 
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
-- Reuben Blades		 
More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.
-- William Blake		 
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
-- William Blake		 
A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.
-- William Blake		 
Where there is money there is no art.
-- William Blake		 
I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is 16 tends to lead toward the elimination of religious superstition. The average high school child acquires a high school education, and this militates against Adam and Eve and all other myths of alleged history. When I was one of the editors of The Nation in the twenties, I wrote an editorial explaining that golf and intelligence were the two primary reasons that men did not attend church. Perhaps today I would say golf and a high school diploma.
-- Paul Blanchard		 
To be paranoid means to believe in delusions of danger and persecution. If the danger is real, and the evidence credible, then it cannot be delusional. To ignore the evidence, and hope that it CANNOT be true, is more an evidence of mental illness.
-- William Blase		 
Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice…
-- Joseph L. Blau		 
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
-- Lady Marguerite Blessington		 
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.
-- Dr. Walter Block		 
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.
-- Walter Block		 
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.
-- Alan Bloom		 
Q. What is meant by the term “constitution”?
A. A constitution embodies the fundamental principles of a government. Our constitution, adopted by the sovereign power, is amendable by that power only. To the constitution all laws, executive actions, and judicial decisions must conform, as it is the creator of the powers exercised by the departments of government.
Q. Why has our Constitution been classed as “rigid”?
A. The term “rigid” is used in opposition to “flexible” because the provisions are in a written document which cannot be legally changed with the same ease and in the same manner as ordinary laws. The British constitution, which is unwritten, can, on the other hand be changed overnight by an act of Parliament. ...
Q. Where, in the Constitution, is there mention of education?
A. There is none; education is a matter reserved for the States. ...
Q. Does the Constitution give us our rights and liberties?
A. No, it does not, it only guarantees them. The people had all their rights and liberties before they made the Constitution. The Constitution was formed, among other purposes, to make the people’s liberties secure -- secure not only as against foreign attack but against oppression by their own government. They set specific limits upon their national government and upon the States, and reserved to themselves all powers that they did not grant. The Ninth Amendment declares: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

-- Sol Bloom		 
Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.
-- Michael Bloomberg		 
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
-- Leon Blum		 
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
-- Léon Blum		 
What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes. In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly financing through federal and state grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order.
-- Samuel L. Blumenfeld		 
When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.
-- George Boas		 
The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many agencies perform functions that are not Federal responsibility. The founders delegated to the Government only strictly defined authority in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. Search the entire Constitution, and you will find no authorization for Congress to subsidize the arts, finance and regulate education or invest tax revenues in energy research.
-- David Boaz		 
Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.
-- David Boaz		 
American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.
-- David Boaz		 
Power always corrupts, and the power of government to tell people how to live their lives or to transfer money from those who earn it to others is always a temptation to corruption. Taxes and regulations reduce people’s incentive to produce wealth, and government transfer programs reduce people’s incentive to work, to save, and to help family and friends in case of sickness, disability, or retirement. ...[I]t is nonetheless clear that government enterprises are less efficient, less innovative, and more wasteful than private firms.... [C]ompare what it’s like to call American Express versus the IRS to correct problems. Or compare a private apartment building with public housing.
-- David Boaz		 
The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That’s enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce’s office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.
-- Alan Bock		 
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.\\ You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.\\ You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.\\ You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer.\\ You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.\\ You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.\\ You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.\\ You cannot establish security on borrowed money.\\ You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.\\ You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
-- William Boetcker		 
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
-- Niels Bohr		 
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr		 
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux		 
In the whole history of law and order, the biggest step was taken by primitive man when...the tribe sat in a circle and allowed only one man to speak at a time. An accused who is shouted down has no rights whatever.
-- Curtis Bok		 
It will be asked whether one would care to have one's young daughter read these books. I suppose that by the time she is old enough to wish to read them she will have learned the biologic facts of life and the words that go with them. There is something seriously wrong at home if those facts have not been met and faced and sorted by then; it is not children so much as parents that should receive our concern about this. I should prefer that my own three daughters meet the facts of life and the literature of the world in my library than behind a neighbor's barn, for I can face the adversary there directly. If the young ladies are appalled by what they read, they can close the book at the bottom of page one; if they read further, they will learn what is in the world and in its people, and no parents who have been discerning with their children need fear the outcome. Nor can they hold it back, for life is a series of little battles and minor issues, and the burden of choice is on us all, every day, young and old
-- Judge Curtis Bok		 
Some people are calling for the federal government to restrict the right to keep and bear arms of people who are on the federal government’s terrorism watch list. This is not only unconstitutional, but sets an extremely dangerous precedent for all our rights. If the federal government can take away someone else’s right to defend themselves simply because it has unilaterally decided to place them on a secret, wildly inaccurate list that’s virtually impossible to be removed from, eventually, some bureaucrat is going to find some way to put you on that list for another reason.
-- Michael Boldin		 
Whatever power you give politicians and bureaucrats to use against other people will eventually be used by future politicians and bureaucrats against you.
-- Michael Boldin		 
Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
I want a situation without censorship, because I do not want to be responsible for whatever they may say.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte		 
I'm not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I'm sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do.
-- Kit Bond		 
From the rostrum of the United Nations, we shall convince the colonial and semicolonial people to liberate themselves and to spread the Communist theory all over the world.
-- Soviet General Pantelei Bondarenko		 
The trouble with gold is that it turns its back on world improvers, empire builders and do-gooders.
-- Bill Bonner		 
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.
-- Bill Bonner		 
Whose service is perfect freedom.
-- Book of Common Prayer		 
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
-- Daniel Boorstin		 
Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.
-- Neal Boortz		 
I can’t think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.
-- Neal Boortz		 
You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'
-- Neal Boortz		 
Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back?  Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?
-- Neal Boortz		 
Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one.  Once again -- the word 'democracy' does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, or the constitution of any of the fifty states.  Not once. Furthermore, take a look at State of the Union speeches.  You won’t find the 'D' word uttered once until the Wilson years.
-- Neal Boortz		 
THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents' sending children to the government to be educated.
-- Neal Boortz		 
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools to teach children to question the authority of government?
-- Neal Boortz		 
This kind of rhetoric should be familiar to any who lived through the McCarthy era of the 1950s. It allows for no differences, not agreement to disagree, among adults or children.
-- David Booth		 
No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.
-- William E. Borah		 
Who could impose such socialistic confiscatory rates?
-- William E. Borah		 
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
-- William E. Borah		 
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.
-- William E. Borah		 
Social Security is an unfunded pay-as-you-go system, fundamentally flawed and analogous in design to illegal pyramid schemes. Government accounting creates the illusion of a trust fund, but in fact, excess receipts are spent immediately. The government’s own actuaries predict the system will be bankrupt by 2030, but Social Security could face financial crisis as early as 2014. Moreover, Social Security’s relatively poor rate of return makes the program an increasingly worse investment for today’s young worker. ... The system design itself is fundamentally flawed and cannot be repaired. It must instead be replaced by one derived from free markets and operated by free citizenry making individual economic decisions in their own self-interest. ... Reform is long overdue. If we fail to act soon, our children will either inherit a bankrupt system or be forced to pay an impossibly high level of taxes. Only private pensions with individual property rights to accumulate fund balances can create a secure pension system. Chile, which privatized its system in 1981, provides evidence of such a system’s effectiveness.
-- Karl Borden		 
If a state militia guarantee rather than an individual right of citizens to keep and bear arms were the purpose of the second Amendment, it would have been totally unnecessary and irrelevant to include any guarantee of “the right of the people to keep and bear arms,” since by its very nature a militia is necessarily an armed force and without arms it would be impossible to carry out its constitutional functions of suppressing insurrections and repelling invasions.
-- Bernard J. Bordonet		 
Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.
-- Dr. Jim Boren		 
Every bureaucrat has a constitutional right to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate. It's a part of our freedom of speech...If people can understand what is being said in Washington, they might want to take over their own government again.
-- Dr. Jim Boren		 
Public apathy is more powerful than public opinion. There's more of it.
-- Dr. Jim Boren		 
When in charge, ponder... When in trouble, delegate... When in doubt, mumble.
-- Dr. Jim Boren		 
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
-- Jorge Luis Borges		 
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
-- Jorge Luis Borges		 
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
-- Jorge Luis Borges		 
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.
-- Judge Robert Bork		 
The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.
-- Judge Robert Bork		 
[A] society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
-- Robert Bork		 
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
-- Robert Bork		 
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
-- Ludwig Börne		 
A functioning police state needs no police.
-- William S. Borroughs		 
This country is not pro-American. It is United States property.
-- Juan Bosch		 
Who lies for you will lie against you.
-- Bosnian Proverb		 
[It is] a natural Right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the [English] Bill of rights, to keep arms for their own defense; and as Mr. Blackstone observes, it is to be made use of when the sanctions of Society and law are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.
-- Boston Evening Post		 
When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover that check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money.
-- Boston Federal Reserve Bank		 
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
-- James Boswell		 
Firearms, especially long guns, occupy a noble place in Canadian history since they are no doubt responsible for the exploitation of a vast and wild territory that had long remained untouched. From 1534 until 1979 (!), the importance of firearms remained uncontested. More than a simple tool of everyday life, they became truly a phenomenon of civilization. At all times and whoever he was, the Canadian was directly in contact with firearms, and he cannot be imagined otherwise. Even today, this symbol of liberty remains intimately related to wide, open spaces, and to a tolerant society. It is the distinctive mark of today's and yesterday's America. Here, in New France, let's repeat it, it is not only soldiers and nobles who have the possibility or privilege to bear arms. Century-old Canadian customs recognize equally to everybody the legal and moral right to acquire a firearm and to use it freely and noncoercively.
-- Russel Bouchard		 
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
-- Elias Boudinot		 
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.
-- Kenneth Boulding		 
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
-- Kenneth Boulding		 
Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.
-- Paul Bourget		 
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.
-- Randolph Bourne		 
War is the health of the State.
-- Randolph Bourne		 
Every ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it! ... If America ever does seek Empire, and most nations do, then planned reforms in our domestic life will be abandoned, States Rights will be abolished -- in order to impose a centralized government upon us for the purpose of internal repudiation of freedom, and adventures abroad. The American Dream will then die -- on battlefields all over the world -- and a nation conceived in liberty will destroy liberty for Americans and impose tyranny on subject nations.
-- George S. Boutwell		 
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.
-- James Bovard		 
Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn’t hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.
-- James Bovard		 
As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.
-- James Bovard		 
The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.
-- James Bovard		 
Subsidies entail politicians’ taking the citizen’s paycheck and then using it to buy his submission.
-- James Bovard		 
Assault weapons laws resemble hate speech laws. Hate speech laws usually begin by targeting a few words that almost no one approves. Once the system for controlling and punishing “hate speech” is put into place, there is little or nothing to stop it from expanding to punish more and more types of everyday speech. Similarly, once an assault weapons law is on the books, there is little to prevent politicians from vastly increasing the number of weapons banned under the law. The main effect of banning assault weapons is to give government an excuse to arrest and imprison millions of Americans while doing little or nothing to reduce crime. America has a limited number of police, and politicians must decide who the real public enemies are. If Mr. Clinton signs an assault weapons ban, it could signal the start of an attack on gun owners’ constitutional rights that could far surpass all previous gun bans.
-- James Bovard		 
The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.
-- James Bovard		 
However accurate or inaccurate the agency’s numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.
-- James Bovard		 
No-knock police raids destroy Americans’ right to privacy and safety. People’s lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people’s lives in order to control what others ingest.
-- James Bovard		 
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-- James Bovard		 
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
-- Chester Bowles		 
The government expands at will, based on what might be charitably called flimsy constitutional reasoning and less charitably and more accurately called arrogant judicial tyranny. Government authority these days rarely comes from the Constitution as written but from the last carefully crafted misinterpretation of it. This is called legal precedent.
-- Linda Bowles		 
The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice.
-- Linda Bowles		 
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
-- William Lisle Bowles		 
This [audit] was made extremely difficult because [IRS] existing Systems were not designed to provide reliable financial information... on their operations.
-- Charles A. Bowsher		 
Constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of constitutional rights against any stealthy encroachments thereon.
-- Boyd v. U.S.		 
If all were to share alike, and all were to do alike, then all were on an equality throughout, and one was as good as another; and so, if it did not actually abolish those very relations which God himself has set among men, it did at least greatly diminish the mutual respect that is so important should be preserved amongst them. Let none argue that this is due to human failing, rather than to this communistic plan of life in itself....
-- William Bradford		 
The experience that was had in ... the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth ... was found to breed much confusion and discontent; and retard much employment which would have been to the general benefit.... For the young men that were most able and fit for labor and service objected that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children, without any recompense.... The strong man or the resourceful man had no more share of food, clothes, etc., than the weak man who was not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men, who were ranked and equalized in labor, food, clothes, etc., with the meaner and younger ones, thought it some indignity and disrespect to them.
-- William Bradford		 
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.
-- Charles Bradlaugh		 
If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.
-- Charles Bradlaugh		 
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
-- General Omar Bradley		 
In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive....Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.
-- Keith Bradsher		 
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-- Anne Bradstreet		 
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
-- Anne Bradstreet		 
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
-- Anne Bradstreet		 
Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
-- Sarah Brady (False)		 
I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won’t part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn’t sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn’t any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he’d do well to spend more time analyzing what’s the matter with his work, and less time figuring what’s the matter with the public.
-- Berton Braley		 
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen... If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
'Stare decisis' is usually the wise policy.... [b]ut where correction through legislative action is practically impossible, this Court has often overruled its earlier decisions...
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
Ways may someday be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
[The founding fathers] conferred, as against the Government, the right to be left alone -- the right most valued by civilized men.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means – to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal – would bring terrible retribution.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
They: The makers of the Constitution: conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system, that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
The most important political office is that of private citizen.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis		 
A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.
-- Nathaniel Branden		 
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism ...
-- Nathaniel Branden		 
Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights ...
-- Nathaniel Branden		 
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism -- the belief that the individual exists to serve others -- is translated into political reality.
-- Nathaniel Branden		 
As teachers, we enter the minds of others; thus we live in eternity. We help others live better lives, thus teaching remains a mercy.
-- Dr. Paul F. Brandwein		 
Every child who believes in God is mentally ill.
-- Dr. Paul F. Brandwein (False)		 
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
-- Robert Brault		 
There is no wisdom without knowledge.
-- Tom Braun		 
If you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.
-- Tom Braun		 
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
-- Bertolt Brecht		 
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
-- Bertolt Brecht		 
All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance – unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].
-- Justice William J. Brennan		 
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to “create” rights. Rather they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
-- Justice William J. Brennan		 
The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.
-- Justice William J. Brennan		 
There is no such thing as a false idea.
-- Justice William J. Brennan		 
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.
-- Justice William J. Brennan		 
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.
-- Justice William J. Brennan		 
If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.
-- Justice William J. Brennan		 
Historians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.
-- Reuven Brenner		 
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
-- Kingman Brewster		 
And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, [President Trump] could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control what people think. And that, that is our job.
-- Mika Brezinski		 
No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.
-- Harry Bridges		 
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.
-- Robert Briffault		 
Force is not a remedy.
-- John Bright		 
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant		 
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant		 
I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant		 
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant		 
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
-- David Brin		 
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
-- David Brinkley		 
Anybody that wants the Presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
-- David Broder		 
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.
-- Jacob Bronowski		 
But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.
-- Yaron Brook		 
. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.
-- Henry Brooke		 
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
-- Bellamy Brooks		 
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers		 
Free speech is about as good a cause as the world has ever known. But it…gets shoved aside in favor of things which at a given moment more vital…everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
-- Heywood Broun		 
The censor believes that he can hold back the mighty traffic of life with a tin whistle and a raised right hand. For after all, it is life with which he quarrels.
-- Heywood Broun		 
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
-- Heywood Hale Broun		 
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian.
-- Heywood Hale Broun		 
The American communists worked energetically and tirelessly to lay the foundations for the United Nations which we were sure would come into existence. … It can be said, without exaggeration, that ever closer relations between our nation and the Soviet Union are an unconditional requirement for the United Nations as a world coalition. … The United Nations is the instrument for victory. Victory is required for the survival of our nation. The Soviet Union is an essential part of the United Nations. Mutual confidence between our country and the Soviet Union and joint work in the leadership of the United Nations are absolutely necessary.
-- Earl Browder		 
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.		 
People take different roads seeking fulfillment & happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.		 
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.
-- James A. C. Brown		 
There exists a “fear of freedom” of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.
-- James A. C. Brown		 
The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable [...] There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.
-- Justice Janice Brown		 
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence.
-- Jerry Brown		 
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense.
-- Norman O. Brown		 
[T]he best elements of the national and state bars are seriously and energetically working for practical reforms in legal procedure, in the manner of the selection of judges, and in the prevention of delays and against the miscarriage of justice, and this, too, by feasible and constitutional measures and by every constructive and really progressive method which can be devised; and that the fact that satisfactory remedies have not yet been attained, is not the fault of the bench or of the bar, whose leaders have for years been urging upon the people, through the legislatures, fully formulated and efficient remedial measures. The fault lies with the people themselves, whose direct representatives in the legislatures, national and state, refuse properly to consider and act upon proposed laws of authenticated and undeniable efficacy.
-- Rome G. Brown		 
The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
-- Harry Browne		 
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
-- Harry Browne		 
Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.
-- Harry Browne		 
For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.
-- Harry Browne		 
The press is hostile to the idea of liberty.  Most people in the press are for big government.  Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is -- it's got to be more government.
-- Harry Browne		 
The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.
-- Harry Browne		 
We should never define libertarian positions in terms coined by liberals and conservatives, nor as some variant of their positions. We are not fiscally conservative and socially liberal. We are libertarians, who believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times.
-- Harry Browne		 
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within 5 years men would be having abortions!
-- Harry Browne		 
The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.
-- Harry Browne		 
There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.
-- Harry Browne		 
Government is a parasite—a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others’ lives won’t give up and start minding their own business.
-- Harry Browne		 
Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
-- Harry Browne		 
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		 
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -- because the first leads inevitably to the second.
-- Harry Browne		 
Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken.
-- Harry Browne		 
I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.
-- Harry Browne		 
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
-- Harry Browne		 
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
-- Merry Browne		 
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.
-- Sir Thomas Browne		 
Be assured that if this new provision [the 14th Amendment] be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our government, and sweep away all the guarantees of safety devised and provided by our patriotic Sires of the Revolution.
-- Orville Browning		 
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning		 
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.
-- Robert Browning		 
[U]nderlying the gun control struggle is a fundamental division in our nation. The intensity of passion on this issue suggests to me that we are experiencing a sort of low grade war going on between two alternative views of what America is and ought to be. On the one side are those who take bourgeois Europe as a model of civilized society: a society just, equitable, and democratic; but well ordered, with the lines of responsibility and authority clearly drawn, and with decisions made rationally and correctly by intelligent men for the entire nation. To such people, hunting is atavistic, personal violence is shameful, and uncontrolled gun ownership is a blot on civilization. On the other side is a group of people who do not tend to be especially articulate or literate, and whose world view is rarely expressed in print. .... They ask, because they do not understand the other side, “Why do these people want to disarm us?” They consider themselves no threat to anyone; they are not criminals, not revolutionaries. But slowly, as they become politicized, they find an analysis that fits the phenomenon they experience: Someone fears their having guns, someone is afraid of their defending their families, property, and liberty. Nasty things may begin to happen if these people begin to feel that they are cornered.
-- B. Bruce-Briggs		 
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce		 
They call it the Halls of Justice because the only place you get justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce		 
Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.
-- Lenny Bruce		 
As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.
-- Tammy Bruce		 
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.
-- Tammy Bruce		 
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
-- Giordano Bruno		 
Every time we establish a new crime, we’re creating a new mechanism for the government to check up on you.
-- James A. Bruton, III		 
I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.
-- Brutus		 
Money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
-- William Jennings Bryan		 
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
-- William Jennings Bryan		 
If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave.
-- John "Birdman" Bryant		 
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
-- William Cullen Bryant		 
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.
-- William Cullen Bryant		 
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.
-- James Bryce		 
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth – matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.
-- James Bryce		 
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski		 
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
-- James Buchanan		 
I like the noise of democracy.
-- James Buchanan		 
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
-- James Buchanan		 
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'
-- Patrick J. Buchanan		 
The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.
-- Patrick J. Buchanan		 
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
-- Art Buchwald		 
If the sincere and thoughtful Mason would “take notice” of the symbolism and the use made everywhere in the Lodge of the word “Light,” and remember that the real Initiates are called also “the Illuminati.”
-- J.D. Buck		 
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
-- Pearl S. Buck		 
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
-- Pearl S. Buck		 
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr.		 
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr.		 
Now it is one thing to say (I say it) that people shouldn’t consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?
-- William F. Buckley, Jr.		 
Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr.		 
Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr.		 
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
-- Buddha		 
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
-- Buddha		 
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
-- Buddha		 
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
-- Buddha		 
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
-- Buddha		 
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
-- Buddha		 
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
-- Buddha		 
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
-- Buddha		 
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha		 
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
-- Buddha		 
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
-- Buddha		 
Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-- Buddha		 
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
-- Buddha		 
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
-- Buddha		 
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
-- Buddha		 
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
-- Buddha		 
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
-- Buddha		 
Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings…that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
-- Buddha		 
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
-- Buddha		 
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
-- Buddha		 
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-- Buddha		 
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
-- Buddha		 
To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
-- Buddha		 
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-- Buddha		 
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
-- Buddha		 
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
-- Buddha		 
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
-- Buddha		 
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
-- Buddha		 
Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
-- Buddha		 
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
-- Buddha		 
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
-- Buddha		 
We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
-- Buddha		 
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
-- Buddha		 
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
-- Buddha		 
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-- Buddha		 
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
-- Buddha		 
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
-- Buddha		 
Born out of concern for all beings.
-- Buddha		 
A jug fills drop by drop.
-- Buddha		 
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
-- Buddha		 
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
-- Buddha		 
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
-- Buddha		 
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
-- Buddha		 
There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.
-- Buddha		 
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
-- Buddha		 
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
-- Buddha		 
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
-- Buddha		 
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
-- Buddha		 
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.
-- Buddha		 
Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
-- Buddha		 
If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.
-- Buddha		 
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
-- Buddha		 
Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
-- Buddha		 
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
-- Buddha		 
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
-- Buddha		 
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha		 
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
-- Buddha		 
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
-- Buddha		 
All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
-- Buddha		 
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
-- Buddha		 
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
-- Buddha		 
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
-- Buddha		 
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
-- Buddha		 
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
-- Buddha		 
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
-- Buddha		 
He is able who thinks he is able.
-- Buddha		 
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
-- Buddha		 
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
-- Buddha		 

-- Buddha		 
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
-- Buddha		 
Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
-- Buddha		 
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
-- Buddha		 
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
-- Buddha		 
What we think, we become.
-- Buddha		 
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.
-- Buddha		 
To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
-- Buddha		 
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
-- Buddha		 
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
-- Buddha		 
Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished.
-- Buddha		 
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
-- Buddha		 
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
-- Buddha		 
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
-- Buddha		 
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
-- Buddha		 
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
-- Buddha		 
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
-- Buddha		 
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
-- Buddha		 
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-- Buddha		 
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
-- Buddha		 
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
-- Buddha		 
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
-- Buddha		 
You are all the Buddha.
-- Buddha		 
Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.
-- Warren Buffett		 
...it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.
-- Warren Buffett		 
Marihuana is a more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine. I am surprised to learn that certain police officers have been inclined to minimize the effects of the use of marihuana. They would, I am sure, be convinced that the drug is adhering to its Old World traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization, and mental breakdown. A study of the effects of marihuana shows clearly that it is a dangerous drug, and Bureau records prove that its use is associated with insanity and crime.
-- Bulletin of the FBI		 
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
-- Alan Bullock		 
'Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes.
-- Christopher Bullock		 
The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton		 
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton		 
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
-- Luther Burbank		 
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
There can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right” and the Amish or others like them are “wrong.” A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
-- Justice Warren E. Burger		 
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
-- Frank Gelett Burgess		 
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.
-- James Burgh		 
All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.
-- James Burgh		 
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
-- Edmund Burke		 
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
-- Edmund Burke		 
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
-- Edmund Burke		 
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The 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 Burke		 
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
-- Edmund Burke		 
To 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 Burke		 
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Society 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 Burke		 
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
-- Edmund Burke		 
It 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 Burke		 
But 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 Burke		 
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
-- Edmund Burke		 
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
-- Edmund Burke		 
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.
-- Edmund Burke		 
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Your 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 Burke		 
People 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 Burke		 
Tell 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 Burke		 
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
-- Edmund Burke		 
I 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 Burke		 
In 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 Burke		 
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
-- Edmund Burke		 
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
-- Edmund Burke		 
There 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 Burke		 
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
-- Edmund Burke		 
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
-- Edmund Burke		 
There 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 Burke		 
The 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 Burke		 
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
-- Edmund Burke		 
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
-- Edmund Burke		 
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
-- Edmund Burke		 
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The 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 Burke		 
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
-- Edmund Burke		 
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
-- Edmund Burke		 
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
-- Edmund Burke		 
Guns 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.
-- H. Sterling Burnett		 
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
-- George Burns		 
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
-- Robert Burns		 
Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
-- Robert Burns		 
Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
-- William S. Burroughs		 
After 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.
-- William S. Burroughs		 
Do 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 Burton		 
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
-- Sir Richard Francis Burton		 
As compared with impulsive commitment to the first idea which dawns, that is, with intuitive action, reasoning is patient, exploratory of other possibilities, and deliberative.
-- Edwin Arthur Burtt		 
Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but what happens inside your house.
-- Barbara 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 Bush		 
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
If 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 Bush		 
Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
It 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 Bush		 
For 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 Bush		 
My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
We 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 Bush		 
Ultimately, 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 Bush		 
We 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		 
It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush (False)		 
If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.
-- George Herbert Walker Bush		 
Let 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. Bush		 
We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.
-- George W. Bush		 
We have every reason to assume the worst.
-- George W. Bush		 
Today 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. Bush		 
The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today.
-- George W. Bush		 
I 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. Bush		 
We will fight with full force and might of the United States military.
-- George W. Bush		 
Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.
-- George W. Bush		 
We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.
-- George W. Bush		 
I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want -- I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.
-- George W. Bush		 
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.
-- George W. Bush		 
There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.
-- George W. Bush		 
The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's], and if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him in the name of Peace.
-- George W. Bush		 
I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office and foreign policy matters with war on my mind.
-- George W. Bush		 
And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.
-- George W. Bush		 
If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.
-- George W. Bush		 
There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.
-- George W. Bush		 
There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there [in Iraq]. My answer is, 'Bring 'em on.'
-- George W. Bush		 
We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.
-- George W. Bush		 
Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.
-- George W. Bush		 
During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more.
-- George W. Bush		 
Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists -- and every government that supports them.
-- George W. Bush		 
They misunderestimated me.
-- George W. Bush		 
We're too great a nation to allow the evildoers to affect our soul.
-- George W. Bush		 
Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.
-- Vannevar Bush		 
My liberty is not for sale.
-- Edward Bushell		 
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.
-- Bishop Joseph Butler		 
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler		 
The old world order died with the setting of that day’s sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler		 
Politics is the art of the possible.
-- R. A. Butler		 
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
-- Samuel Butler		 
The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary it is that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.
-- Samuel Butler		 
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
-- Samuel Butler		 
Authority intoxicates,\\ And makes mere sots of magistrates;\\ The fumes of it invade the brain,\\ And make men giddy, proud and vain.
-- Samuel Butler		 
There should be some schools called deformatories to which people are sent if they are too good to be practical.
-- Samuel Butler		 
I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
-- Samuel Butler		 
I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street...
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 

-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler		 
No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.
-- Stephen T. Byington		 
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house. The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties. It will create a complicated machinery. Under it businessmen will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. They will compel men of business to show their books and disclose the secrets of their affairs. They will dictate forms of bookkeeping. They will require statements and affidavits. On the one hand the inspector can blackmail the taxpayer and on the other, he can profit by selling his secret to his competitor.
-- Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.		 
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house.... The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.
-- Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.		 
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
-- Sen. Robert C. Byrd		 
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
-- Robert Byrne		 
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.
-- Lord Byron		 
Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
-- Lord Byron		 
For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.
-- Lord Byron		 
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
-- Lord Byron		 
The wish, which ages have not yet subdued In man, to have no master save his mood.
-- Lord Byron		 
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
-- Lord Byron		 
He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace.
-- Lord Byron		 
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.
-- Lord Byron		 
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that "Carpe Diem" is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?
-- Lord Byron		 
I wish men to be free, as much from mobs as kings,—from you as me.
-- Lord Byron		 
The statute mandating recitation of the pledge [of allegiance] is secular because it aims to foster democracy, which is both necessary to the survival of the concept and entirely independent of religion. [...] It is clear in the 2001 [Virginia] state law that no student is forced to accept the beliefs the pledge espouses.
-- James C. Cacheris		 
When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you.
-- Gaius Julius Caesar		 
All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.
-- Gaius Julius Caesar		 
Men willingly believe what they wish.
-- Gaius Julius Caesar		 
Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword. It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect. And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights. The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage. Why do I know that? I know it, because this is, what I did. And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar.
-- Gaius Julius Caesar (False)		 
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage		 
The people’s right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes that they may desire to cast, for they are entitled to an active role in shaping every fundamental decision of state.
-- Edmond Cahn		 
“Due process,” a standard that arose in our system of law and stemmed from the desire to provide rational procedure and fair play, is equally indispensable in every other kind of social or political enterprise.
-- Edmond Cahn		 
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.
-- Justice Millard Fillmore Caldwell		 
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ...
-- John C. Calhoun		 
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.
-- John C. Calhoun		 
In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.
-- Oscar Callaway		 
I regret to say it, but we are gradually turning over the business of Congress, turning over all our constitutional rights, turning over our powers delegated by the people to a lot of editors, theorists, and college professors who are not capable of conducting our affairs and to whom we should not abdicate.
-- Oscar Callaway		 
It would not be unreasonable, by analogy with a motor vehicle licence, that a permit to reproduce should also be needed with a minimum age of, for example, twenty-five, and a proof required that the parents are of sufficient maturity and financial resource to take proper care of the child. Young, sexually active, but emotionally immature teenagers would need help.
-- Sir Roy Yorke Calne		 
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do...
-- Italo Calvino		 
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
-- Simon Cameron		 
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
-- Dalton Camp		 
When we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.
-- C. Arthur Campbell		 
Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! . . . . O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.
-- Thomas Campbell		 
Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.
-- William J. Campbell		 
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.
-- Albert Camus		 
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
-- Albert Camus		 
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
-- Albert Camus		 
Integrity has no need of rules.
-- Albert Camus		 
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
-- Albert Camus		 
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
-- Albert Camus		 
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus		 
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-- Albert Camus		 
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
-- Albert Camus		 
I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
-- Albert Camus		 
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
-- Albert Camus		 
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
-- Albert Camus		 
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
-- Albert Camus		 
It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
-- Albert Camus		 
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-- Albert Camus		 
The aim of art, the aim of a life, can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
-- Albert Camus		 
The regulation prohibiting abusive comment that tends or is likely to expose a person or a group to hatred or contempt is necessary not only to avoid harm to the persons targeted, but also to ensure that Canadian values are respected for all Canadians. The broadcast of remarks that could expose individuals or groups to hatred or contempt can attract individuals to its cause and in the process create serious discord between various groups in Canadian society to the detriment of all of Canadian society. This harm undermines the cultural, political and social fabric of Canada which the Canadian broadcasting system is expressly meant to safeguard, enrich and strengthen. It also undermines the multicultural and multiracial nature of Canadian society, which the programming of the Canadian broadcasting system should reflect. Protection from the harms of abusive comment is for the benefit of all Canadians.
-- Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission		 
After listening to the recordings containing the remarks made by on-air personalities on 10 and 27 September and 8 October and reading the stenographic notes, the Commission identified several remarks about the complainant related to her physical attributes, and sexual attributes in particular. There are multiple references to the size of her breasts; [translation] 'her incredible set of boobs' ... The Commission considers that the remarks made about Ms. Chiasson were abusive and tended to expose her, and women in general, to contempt on the basis of sex, in contravention of section 3(b) of the Regulations. Further, the remarks do not meet the objectives of the broadcasting policy for Canada set out in the Act. The remarks did not meet the objective of high standard of programming required by section 3(1)(g) of the Act.
-- Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission		 
[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.
-- Candidus		 
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.
-- Georg Cantor		 
Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance.
-- Mortimer Caplin		 
The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.
-- Father Robert F. Capon		 
When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
-- Al Capone		 
Remember to vote early -- and often.
-- Al Capone		 
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
-- Al Capone		 
You cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own.
-- G. R. Capp		 
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
-- Orson Scott Card		 
It is time for our school systems to stop accepting the gospel of that false religion and start doing their due diligence. Our children should be taught about the demonstrable solar cycles; and the whole human-caused Global Warming theory, along with the Hockey Stick Hoax, should be taught only as another example, after Piltdown Man and pre-Copernican theories of planetary movement, of how science can be corrupted when ideology gets ahead of the data.
-- Orson Scott Card		 
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
-- Orson Scott Card		 
The only way to learn is by changing your mind.
-- Orson Scott Card		 
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo		 
Of...freedom [of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo		 
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo		 
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
-- Justice Benjamin Cardozo		 
We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans:\\ My country 'tis of thee,\\ Sweet land of liberty,\\ Of thee I sing.\\ Land where my fathers died,\\ Land of the Pilgrims' pride\\ From every mountainside\\ Let freedom ring!\\ \\ That's exactly what we mean -- from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia -- let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth -- may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!
-- Rev. Archibald Carey, Jr.		 
Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution -- the only necessary Law of the Constitution.
-- Richard Carlile		 
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
-- Thomas Carlyle		 
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
-- Thomas Carlyle		 
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man.
-- Thomas Carlyle		 
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling buisness: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
-- Thomas Carlyle		 
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. They never pauperize. They reach the aspiring and open to these chief treasures of the world -- those stored up in books. A taste for reading drives out lower tastes.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium... Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors.
-- Andrew Carnegie		 
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain -- and most fools do.
-- Dale Carnegie		 
As the federal government has progressively become larger over the decades, every significant introduction of government regulation, taxation and spending has been to the benefit of some big business.
-- Timothy P. Carney		 
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.
-- Hippolyte Lazare Carnot		 
I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone.
-- David Carr		 
...no nation which signs this [UN] Charter can justly maintain that any of its acts are its own business, or within its own domestic jurisdiction, if the security council says that these acts are a threat to the peace.
-- William Carr		 
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.
-- Charles Carroll		 
When I use a word...it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less....The question is...which is to be master -- that's all.
-- Lewis Carroll		 
Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
-- Lewis Carroll		 
My mother worked as a domestic, two, sometimes three jobs at a time because she didn’t want to be on welfare. She felt very strongly that if she gave up and went on welfare, that she would give up control of her life and of our lives, and I think she was probably correct about that. … But, one thing that she provided us was a tremendous example of what hard work is like.
-- Dr. Ben Carson		 
The more solid the family foundation, the more likely you are to be able to resist peer pressure. Human beings are social creatures. We all want to belong, we all have that desire, and we will belong, one way or another. If the family doesn’t provide that, the peers will, or a gang will, or you will find something to belong to. That’s why it becomes so critical for families with young children to understand what a critical anchor they are.
-- Dr. Ben Carson		 
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
-- Hodding Carter		 
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.
-- Jimmy Carter		 
I think that every true reformer, every real friend of liberty, will agree with me in saying that if we must erect safeguards, they should be rather for the security of the individual than of the mass, and that our chiefest care must be to train the majority to respect the rights of the minority, to prevent the claims of the few from being trampled under foot by the caprice or passion of the many.
-- Sir Richard John Cartwright		 
The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That’s why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.
-- James Carville (Questionable)		 
For good or evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
-- Joyce Cary		 
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.
-- Joyce Cary		 
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted.  I don't accept it.
-- Pablo Casals		 
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
-- Pablo Casals		 
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-- Douglas Casey		 
The growth of drug-related crime is a far greater evil to society as a whole than drug taking. Even so, because we have been seduced by the idea that governments should legislate for our own good, very few people can see how dangerously absurd the present policy is.
-- John Casey		 
Considering that senior officials at the Internal Revenue Service are fully aware of the fact that there is no law currently in existence making a U.S. citizen liable for or required to pay either the income tax or the social security employment tax, only a truly generous citizen would, upon discovering this, continue to voluntarily donate these taxes to the government by allowing them to be withheld from his paycheck on a 100% voluntary W-4 withholding agreement. But, then again, the IRS would be dead in the water without the "voluntary (and docile) compliance" of employers and employees and has said so all along.
-- William Cash		 
The freedom to express varying and often opposing ideas is essential to a variety of conceptions of democracy. If democracy is viewed as essentially a process – a way in which collective decisions for a society are made – free expression is crucial to the openness of the process and to such characteristics as elections, representation of interests, and the like.
-- Jonathan D. Casper		 
Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear.
-- Helena Cassadine		 
In the end, legalization of certain substances may be the only way to bring prices down, and doing so may be the only remedy to some of the worst aspects of the drug plague: violence, corruption, and the collapse of the rule of law.
-- Jorge Castañeda		 
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
-- Fidel Castro		 
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
-- Henry Cate VII		 
The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.
-- Willa Cather		 
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
-- Catherine of Siena		 
By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
-- Cato		 
...I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason...
-- Cato		 
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
-- Cato		 
Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech...
-- Cato		 
I must own, I know not what Treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason, in the eternal and original Nature of Things.
-- Cato		 
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
-- Cato the Younger		 
There are two kinds of restrictions on human liberty -- the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt		 
Most reporters are very sympathetic to gun-control agendas and will skew or lie outright about facts to promote them.
-- Dennis Cauchon		 
Each peso [or dollar] is a contract between the government and the peso holder. That contract guarantees that each peso -- as a unit of value that the holder has worked hard to get -- will be worth as much tomorrow as today. If the government breaks the contract, it's breaking the law. The only role of government in the economy should be to guarantee the integrity of market transactions.
-- Domingo Cavallo		 
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
-- Dick Cavett		 
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
-- Dick Cavett		 
It's about food. It’s about your home. It’s about your life. The government is worried about all of the above. All I’m saying is you should be worried they’re worried. Here’s why: They’re telling you that you can’t take care of yourself. You can’t be trusted with what you put in your mouth or what you sign on the mortgage dotted line. So they’ll tell you what to put in your mouth and they’ll save you from what you signed on that dotted line. Does anyone see a trend here? Personal responsibility has now become government responsibility.
-- Neil Cavuto		 
You had me on (before) to talk about the new world order ... I talk about it all the time ... It's one world now ... The council (Council on foreign Relations) can find, nurture and begin to put people in the kinds of jobs this country needs. And that's going to be one of the major enterprises of the Council under me..
-- Les Celb		 
Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
-- Cervantes		 
There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.
-- Aimè Cèsaire		 
Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk but to the majority that does not want to listen.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
Freedom from something is not enough. It should also be freedom for something. Freedom is not safety but opportunity. Freedom ought to be a means to enable the press to serve the proper functions of communication in a free society.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk, but to the majority that does not want to listen.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.		 
The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.
-- Edmund B. Chaffee		 
One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle-class families of financial reserves. [It] has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State.
-- W. H. Chamberlin		 
One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.
-- W. H. Chamberlin		 
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.
-- Whittaker Chambers		 
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
-- Nicolas-Sebasstien Chamfort		 
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.
-- John Chancellor		 
Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.
-- Otis Chandler		 
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
-- Raymond Chandler		 
He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.
-- Raymond Chandler		 
Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
-- Gabrielle Chanel		 
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith...
-- William Ellery Channing		 
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
-- William Ellery Channing		 
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin		 
At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
-- E. H. Chapin		 
Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own.
-- John Jay Chapman		 
Our duty, as men and women is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin		 
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need, be they aged parents or their unfortunate neighbors—“compassion” having become the province of the state.
-- Mona Charen		 
The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
-- Charles I		 
Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
-- Charles I		 
The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions.
-- Alexander Chase		 
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
-- Mary Ellen Chase		 
The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.
-- Justice Salmon Chase		 
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. ... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
-- Salmon P. Chase		 
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
-- Samuel Chase		 
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
-- Samuel Chase		 
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
-- Stuart Chase		 
It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.
-- Dick Cheney (False)		 
The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world’s oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.
-- Dick Cheney		 
[A]fter unleashing the Red Guards … to serve his political purposes, Mao Zedong was no longer able to control them.
-- Nien Cheng		 
Day and night the city resounded with the loud noise of drums and gongs … looting and the ransacking of private homes … The violence of the Red Guards seemed to have escalated. … Articles in the newspapers … encouraged the Red Guards and congratulated them on their vandalism. They were … exhorted to be fearless in their work of toppling the old world and building a new one based on Mao’s teachings.
-- Nien Cheng		 
The newspaper announced that the mission of the Red Guards was to rid the country of the ‘Four Olds’: old culture, old customs, old habits, and old ways of thinking. There was no clear definition of ‘old’; it was left to the Red Guards to decide. First of all, they changed street names.
-- Nien Cheng		 
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.
-- Lord Chesterfield		 
It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic--that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone’s account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
But there is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master, for the machine would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion of how it was really being produced.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially on sexual morality. And it is coming, not from a few Socialists surviving from the Fabian Society, but from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last, with neither Popery nor Puritanism nor Socialism to hold them back. … The roots of the new heresy, God knows, are as deep as nature itself, whose power is the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye and the pride of life. I say that the man who cannot see this cannot see the signs of the times; cannot see even the skysigns in the street that are the new sort of signs in heaven. The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow but much more in Manhattan.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton		 
The Rothschilds can start or prevent wars. Their word could make or break empires.
-- Chicago Evening American		 
David Rockefeller, President of Chase Manhattan Bank, briefed President Johnson today on his recent meeting with Premier Nikita Khrushchev of Russia.
-- Chicago Tribune		 
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
-- Lydia M. Child		 
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
-- Lydia M. Child		 
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
-- Chilon of Sparta		 
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
-- Chinese Proverb		 
Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors … had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.
-- Charles Chiniquy		 
The federal criminal code currently includes more than 3,000 offenses and hardly a congressional session goes by without an attempt to add new sections.
-- Stephen Chippendale		 
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
-- Shirley Chisholm		 
In the United States, Sovereignty resides in the people, who act through the organs established by the Constitution.
-- Chisholm v. Georgia		 
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.
-- Dr. G. Brock Chisolm		 
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.
-- Dr. G. Brock Chisolm		 
The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.
-- Joseph H. Choate		 
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
-- Rufus Choate		 
At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as "free education" is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
[I]n America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.
-- Frank Chodorov		 
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media.
-- Noam Chomsky		 
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
-- Agatha Christie		 
Democracy is essentially coercive. The winner gets to use public authority to impose their policies on the losers.
-- John Chubb		 
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 so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory -- victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes. The moral effect should be good … and it would spread a lively terror.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
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.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The price of greatness is responsibility.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I like a man who grins when he fights.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.  But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: 'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.'
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
-- Sir Winston Churchill		 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.
-- Winston Churchill		 
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.
-- Winston Churchill		 
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
-- Winston Churchill		 
In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound.
-- Winston Churchill		 
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
-- Winston Churchill		 
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.
-- Winston Churchill		 
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill		 
The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charges known to the law, and particularly to deny him judgment by his peers for an indefinite period, is in the highest degree odious, and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments...Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation.
-- Winston Churchill		 
The public library is the most dangerous place in town.
-- John Ciardi		 
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
The more laws, the less justice.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born... is to live the life of a child for ever.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
By doubting we all come at truth.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
We are taxed in our bread and our wine, in our incomes and our investments, on our land and on our property not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men, but for foreign nations, complaisant nations who will bow to us and accept our largesse and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace - these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare, and surely it is becoming bare! We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and order and the Pax Romana, a document which will fall into dust when it pleases our allies and our vassals. We keep them in precarious balance only with our gold. Is the heartblood of our nation worth these? Were they bound to us with ties of love, they would not ask our gold. They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more? ... When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Questionable)		 
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero		 
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
-- Quintus Tullius Cicero		 
During war, the laws are silent.
-- Quintus Tullius Cicero		 
Gravity is still just a theory, too. Would you like to test it by placing your neck beneath a guillotine?
-- Ralph Cicerone		 
Our major mistakes have not been the result of democracy, but of the erosion of democracy made possible by the mass media’s manipulation of public opinion.
-- Robert Cirino		 
When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed...
-- Civil Servants' Year Book		 
Les femmes sont tout à fait compétentes pour assurer leur légitime défense, pourvu que la loi ne les transforme pas en criminelles si elles emploient des moyens efficaces à cette fin." "Women are quite able to see to their own defence, as long as the law does not transform them into criminals if they take effective measures to do so.
-- Claire Joly, Marie Latourelle, Maryse Martin, and Karen Selick		 
There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.
-- Frank Clark		 
[The program of American disarmament outlined in State Department Paper 7277] is the fixed, determined and approved policy of the government of the United States.
-- Joseph S. Clark		 
The last damn thing blacks should do is get into the vanguard of banning books. The next step is banning blacks...
-- Dr. Kenneth Clark		 
Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an inordinate degree of power in shaping the course of America in the dangerous postwar era. I could not help wondering and worrying whether we were faced with open enemies across the conference table and hidden enemies who sat with us in our most secret councils.
-- General Mark Clark		 
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
-- Ramsey Clark		 
But we’re not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we’re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
-- Ramsey Clark		 
Those who do not believe in the ideology of the United States, shall not be allowed to live in the United States.
-- Tom Clark		 
From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.
-- Justice Tom C. Clark		 
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.
-- Justice Tom C. Clark		 
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
-- Arthur C. Clarke		 
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearence of magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke		 
It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances.
-- John Hessin Clarke		 
...there is no provision in the Charter itself that contemplates ending war. It is true the Charter provides for force to bring peace, but such use of force is itself war... The Charter is a war document not a peace document... Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting.
-- J. Reuben Clark, Jr.		 
He who wants peace must prepare for war.
-- Claudius		 
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
-- Henry Clay		 
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
-- Henry Clay		 
An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
-- Henry Clay		 
I would rather be right than President.
-- Henry Clay		 
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to denigration without the usual interval of civilization.
-- Georges Clemenceau		 
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
-- Georges Clemenceau		 
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government.
-- Grover Cleveland		 
For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.
-- Harlan Cleveland		 
It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
-- William Kingdon Clifford		 
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
-- William Kingdon Clifford		 
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
-- William Kingdon Clifford		 
There is no reason for anyone in this country -- anyone except a police officer or military person -- to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun. The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns.
-- Bill Clinton (False)		 
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.
-- Bill Clinton (Questionable)		 
Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.
-- Bill Clinton		 
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.
-- Bill Clinton		 
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.
-- Bill Clinton		 
There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election.
-- Bill Clinton		 
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
-- Bill Clinton		 
No one wants to get this (Lewinsky) matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people,
-- Bill Clinton		 
It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
-- Bill Clinton		 
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.
-- Bill Clinton		 
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...
-- Bill Clinton		 
You can't say you love your country and hate your government.
-- Bill Clinton		 
I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is the absolute truth.
-- Bill Clinton		 
A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.
-- Bill Clinton		 
It depends on what the meaning of the word is. If the– if he– if "is" means is and never has been, that is not– that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.... Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.
-- Bill Clinton		 
I am here because I want to redefine the meaning of citizenship in America... If you’re asked in school ‘What does it mean to be a good citizen?’ I want the answer to be, ‘Well, to be a good citizen, you have to obey the law, you’ve got to go to work or be in school, you’ve got to pay your taxes and, oh, yes, you have to serve in your community to help make it a better place.’
-- Bill Clinton		 
Q.- "If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?" A.- "Sure, if I could... I tried before!
-- Bill Clinton		 
You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.
-- Bill Clinton		 
African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.
-- Bill Clinton		 
You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable.
-- Bill Clinton		 
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...
-- Bill Clinton		 
Nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones or requires all religious expression to be left behind at the schoolhouse door. … Government’s schools also may not discriminate against private religious expression during the school day.
-- Bill Clinton		 
The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools.
-- Bill Clinton		 
Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'
-- George Clinton		 
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
God bless the America we are trying to create.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
-- Hillary Clinton		 
This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.
-- James Clyburn		 
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.
-- Frank I. Cobb		 
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.
-- Frank I. Cobb		 
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers ... and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he... should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.
-- Frank I. Cobb		 
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
-- William Cobbett		 
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
-- David B. Coblitz		 
The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the "high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and 'is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.
-- Cockrum v. State		 
The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the high powers delegated directly to the citizen, and is excepted out of the general powers of government. A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.
-- Cockrum v. State		 
Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.
-- Paulo Coelho		 
The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.
-- Paulo Coelho		 
I join others who throughout history have recognized that an individual in this country has a protected right, within the confines of the criminal law, to guard his or her home or place of business from unlawful intrusions. ... Surely nothing could be more fundamental to the “concept of ordered liberty” than the basic right of an individual, within the confines of the criminal law, to protect his home and family from unlawful and dangerous intrusions.
-- John Louis Coffey		 
It has been said that the greatest threat to our liberty is from well-meaning, and almost imperceptible encroachments upon our personal freedom.
-- John Louis Coffey		 
The right to privacy is one of the most cherished rights an American citizen has; the right to privacy sets America apart from totalitarian states in which the interests of the state prevail over individual rights. A fundamental part of our concept of ordered liberty is the right to protect one’s home and family against dangerous intrusions subject to the criminal law.
-- John Louis Coffey		 
Prohibition ended in 1933 because the nation’s most influential people, as well as the general public, acknowledged that it had failed. It had increased lawlessness and drinking and aggravated alcohol abuse.
-- Thomas M. Coffey		 
Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.
-- John Cogley		 
We must realize that our Party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races, that for centuries have been oppressed by the Whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party ... In America, we will aim for subtle victory. While enflaming the Negro minority against the Whites, we will instill in the Whites, a guilt complex for the exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions, and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negroes will be able to intermarry with the Whites, and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause.
-- Israel Cohen (Questionable)		 
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen		 
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
-- Morris R. Cohen		 
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.
-- Morris R. Cohen		 
We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with the issues and subjects we choose to deal with.
-- Richard M. Cohen		 
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
-- William S. Cohen		 
We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.
-- William S. Cohen		 
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
-- Jean Baptiste Colbert		 
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
-- Frank Moore Colby		 
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
-- William Colby		 
The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It’s possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.
-- William Colby		 
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.
-- Hartley Coleridge		 
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
I have seen gross intolerance show in support of tolerance.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge		 
Two hundred ten years ago, the people who drafted our Bill of Rights decided that banning books wasn't the way to handle disagreements. They thought the best thing was more speech. It is a pity that county commissioners in 2002 don't agree.
-- Matt Coles		 
The core issue here is not whether you agree or disagree with the commissioners about gay people. It is whether you think the answer to a disagreement is to yank the words of anyone who disagrees with them out of the library.
-- Matt Coles		 
While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny.
-- Rev. Nicholas Collin		 
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
-- Robin George Collingwood		 
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.
-- R. G. Collingwood		 
By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
-- Anthony Collins		 
The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.
-- Colorado Constitution		 
A governmental purpose to control or prevent certain activities, which may be constitutionally subject to state or municipal regulation under the police power, may not be achieved by means which sweep unnecessarily broadly and thereby invade the area of protected freedoms. Even though the governmental purpose may be legitimate and substantial, that purpose cannot be pursued by means that broadly stifle fundamental personal liberties when the end can be more narrowly achieved.
-- Colorado Supreme Court		 
The 1st Amendment embraces the individual's right to purchase and read whatever books she wishes to, without fear the government will take steps to discover which books she buys, reads, and intends to read.
-- Colorado Supreme Court		 
[The state] cannot disarm any class of persons or deprive them of the right guaranteed under section 13, article 2 of the Constitution, to bear arms in defense of home, person, and property. The guaranty thus extended is meaningless if any person is denied the right to possess arms for such protection....
-- Colorado Supreme Court		 
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
-- Charles Caleb Colton		 
[W]e are living in a sick Society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbors but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them.
-- William Comer		 
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion... In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
-- Henry Steele Commager		 
Lawyers are being graduated from our law schools by the thousands who have little knowledge of the Constitution. When  organizations seek a lawyer to instruct them on the Constitution, they find it nearly impossible to secure one competent.
-- Committee on American Citizenship		 
We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists.
-- Communist Party Education Workers Congress		 
Communist Rules for Revolution...
-- Communist Rules for Revolution (Questionable)		 
[When] Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology, why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
-- Auguste Comte		 
Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. ... Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions.
-- Auguste Comte		 
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
-- James Bryant Conant		 
Eight days after taking over the reins of his country, a beloved leader urged everyone to turn in their arms - “There is no longer an enemy,” he said. A slogan, “Arms—What For?” appeared throughout the nation. Thirty days later he ordered his militia to turn in their arms. Promised elections are cancelled, the loved leader becomes a tyrant and his people lose all rights, including freedom of speech and press, becoming a totalitarian state for the next 35 years. For those Americans currently willing to agree to have some of their rights curtailed for temporary security, I’d urge them to look south -- to Cuba.
-- Yvonne M. Conde		 
Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them.
-- Pat Condell		 
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
-- Confucius		 
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
-- Confucius		 
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
-- Confucius		 
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
-- Confucius		 
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand.
-- Confucius		 
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
-- Confucius		 
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-- Confucius		 
The superior man understands what is right. The inferior man understands what is popular.
-- Confucius		 
By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart.
-- Confucius		 
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
-- Confucius		 
No mask like open truth to cover lies,\\As to go naked is the best disguise.
-- William Congreve		 
Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.
-- Connecticut Constitution		 
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
-- Joseph Conrad		 
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.
-- Joseph Conrad		 
Thus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt...
-- Benjamin Constant		 
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being...
-- Benjamin Constant		 
First ask yourselves, Gentlemen, what an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a citizen of the United States of America understand today by the word 'liberty'. For each of them it is the right to be subjected only to the laws, and to be neither arrested, detained, put to death nor maltreated in any way by the arbitrary will of one or more individuals. It is the right of everyone to express their opinion, choose a profession and practice it, to dispose of property, and even to abuse it; to come and go without permission, and without having to account for their motives or undertakings. It is everyone's right to associate with other individuals, either to discuss their interests, or to profess the religion which they or their associates prefer, or even simply to occupy their days or hours in a way which is more compatible with their inclinations or whims. Finally, it is everyone's right to exercise some influence on the administration of the government, either by electing all or particular officials, or through representations, petitions, demands to which the authorities are more or less compelled to pay heed. Now compare this liberty with that of the ancients. The latter consisted in exercising collectively, but directly, several parts of the complete sovereignty; in deliberating, in the public square, over war and peace; in forming alliances with foreign governments; in voting laws, in pronouncing judgments; in examining the accounts, the acts, the stewardship of the magistrates; in calling them to appear in front of the assembled people, in accusing, condemning or absolving them. But if this was what the ancients called liberty, they admitted as compatible with this collective freedom the complete subjection of the individual to the authority of the community.
-- Benjamin Constant		 
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.
-- Constitution for the United States		 
We the People of the united States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
-- Constitution for the USA		 
In all criminal cases whatsoever, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts.
-- Indiana Constitution		 
Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms; and this right shall never be questioned.
-- Maine Constitution		 
The people have a right to keep and bear arms for the common defense. And as, in times of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the Legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the Civil authority, and be governed by it.
-- Massachusetts Constitution		 
Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state.
-- Michigan Constitution		 
The right of any person to keep or bear arms in defense of his own home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but nothing herein contained shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons.
-- Montana Constitution		 
Every citizen has the right to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes.
-- Nevada Constitution		 
All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.
-- New Hampshire Constitution		 
The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
-- New Hampshire Constitution		 
All lawful authority comes from God to the people.
-- Constitution of the Irish Free State		 
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury... nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any Criminal Case to be a witness against himself, not be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
-- Constitution of the United States		 
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
-- Constitution of UNESCO		 
That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing, and publishing their sentiments; therefore, the freedom of the press ought not to be restrained.
-- Pennsylvania Constitution		 
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...
-- U. S. Constitution		 
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
-- U.S. Constitution		 
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
-- Alistair Cooke		 
As for the rage to believe that we have found the secret of liberty in general permissiveness from the cradle on, this seems to me a disastrous sentimentality, which, whatever liberties it sets loose, loosens also the cement that alone can bind society into a stable compound -- a code of obeyed taboos. I can only recall the saying of a wise Frenchman that `liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.' Historically, those peoples that did not discipline themselves had discipline thrust on them from the outside. That is why the normal cycle in the life and death of great nations has been first a powerful tyranny broken by revolt, the enjoyment of liberty, the abuse of liberty -- and back to tyranny again. As I see it, in this country -- a land of the most persistent idealism and the blandest cynicism -- the race is on between its decadence and its vitality.
-- Alistair Cooke		 
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
-- Alistair Cooke		 
Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force.
-- Samuel Cooke		 
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
-- Charles Horton Cooley		 
We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.
-- Marvin Cooley		 
I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in Hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruption
-- Marvin Cooley		 
The right is general. It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent. The militia, as has been explained elsewhere, consists of those persons who, under the law, are liable to the performance of military duty, and are officered and enrolled for service when called upon. . . . [I]f the right were limited to those enrolled, the purpose of the guarantee might be defeated altogether by the action or the neglect to act of the government it was meant to hold in check. The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms, and they need no permission or regulation of law for that purpose.
-- Thomas Cooley		 
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
-- Calvin Coolidge		 


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