"In Washington, second guessing has become second nature"

George W. Bush

"Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times"

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith

Alexis de Tocqueville

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar"

Robert Brault

"Democracy is the worst form of government except all others"

Winston Churchill

“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”

James Madison

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born"

Ronald Reagan

"It’s not the votes that count. It’s who counts the votes"

Joseph Stalin

"Tell me and I forget - Teach me and I remember - Involve me and I learn"

Benjamin Franklin

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in time of great moral crisis"

Dante Alighieri

“Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to”

Benjamine A. Rooge

''Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.''

Charlotte

"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.”

Margaret Thatcher

“If the facts don’t fit the theory, just change the facts”

Albert Einstein

“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.”

Thomas Paine (December 23, 1776)

"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"There are two ways of doing things: the right way, and the way they do it in Washington"

Ronald Reagan

“It’s unprofessional to confuse loyalty with integrity”

Robert David Steele (CIA)

"The most valuable thing you can spend on your children is your time"

"Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it"

Harry S. Truman

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it”

Margaret Sanger (Founder of Planned Parenthood)

“Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut”

Larry Elder

"Truth has no agenda"

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter"

Mark Twain

"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use"

Joseph Stalin

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory"

Ingrid Bergman

"Abortion is not a woman’s rights issue but a human rights issue"

Kathy Ireland

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense"

Mark Twain

"I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.”

Margaret Thatcher

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear"

Mark Twain

"If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed"

Mark Twain

"Agenda 21 is not a "conspiracy theory", it is an Action Plan."

"Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving"

Bill McIntire - NRA Spokesman (1992)

"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."

Vladimir Lenin

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off”

Ayn Rand

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do"

Joseph Stalin

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see"

Ayn Rand

“America is the best half-educated country in the world”

Nicholas Murray Butler

“The path to perfection, the loftiest goal, is success in and of itself”

"The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread"

"I'll bet you never dreamed you'd look back at Jimmy Carter as the good old days."

Mitt Romney

"The progressive mind is as deep as the pavement puddle"

WAG

"The Second Amendment has never been about hunting or crime prevention; it’s about keeping our government in check."

Patrice Lewis

"Better a broken promise than none at all"

Mark Twain

“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life"

Mark Twain

"Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.”

Margaret Thatcher

"Every time Congress makes a joke, it’s a law. And every time it makes a law, it’s a joke"

Will Rogers

“I may be ignorant, but I’m in the majority”

American Citizen

"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

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds"

Francis Bacon

"A government that requires "integrity provisions" is by definition past the stage where they will do any good."

Mark Steyn

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Chinese Proverb

"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief."

Thomas Fuller

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”

Aaron Levenstein

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Philip K. Dick

“A country that can't control its borders isn't really a country anymore”

Ronald Reagan

"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty"

Eugene McCarthy

"An informed public is essential to a democracy"

Thomas Jefferson

“An individual who believes their lies cannot be considered a liar.”

Progressive apologist

“About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation”

Will Rogers

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman"

Margaret Thatcher

"The measure of a man’s character is how he treats another who can do nothing for him"

Rush Limbaugh

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there”

John Wooden

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be”

Thomas Jefferson

"Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does"

Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)

"A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying,"

Pope John Paul II

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live"

Mark Twain

"The last time France needed more proof it rolled through the streets of Paris in the form of a German tank"

David Letterman

"Let it never be said that failure arose from lack of effort"

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”

Benjamin Franklin

"Funny term “progressive” – oxymoron if ever I heard one when used to describe an ideology so destructive to the liberties and freedoms of the individual."

WAG

"Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation"

Peter Drucker

"Expect the best, prepare for the worst, capitalize on what comes"

"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its trouble - it empties today of its strength"

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so"

Mark Twain

"They keep saying, 'A school is supposed to be a safe place!' Yeah well so is a womb."

Pastor John MacArthur

"The American constitution was designed by a group of geniuses, knowing it would be administered by a group of idiots"

"Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace"

Rod Serling

"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"Money is like manure; If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell"

Clint Murchison

"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation"

Adlai E. Stevenson

“Men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese"

"He who would give up a little liberty in return for a little security deserves neither liberty nor security"

Benjamin Franklin

“The power to tax is the power to destroy”

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“It is not the responsibility of parents to pave the road for their children, but to provide them a road map”

"Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."

Abraham Lincoln

“To possess a memory is to be blessed with a priceless good. It is our link to the past, our guidepost to the present and our passport to the future”

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and them misapplying the wrong remedies”

Groucho Marx

"That government governs best that governs least"

Thomas Jefferson

"History will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening."

Ronald Reagan

"Every member of the State ought diligently to read and to study the Constitution [the documents] of this country...By knowing their rights they will sooner perceive when they are violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them."

John Jay, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free"

P.J. O'Rourke

"Influence peddling and corruption are bipartisan sins: those out of power allege them, those in power commit them"

"There are times in one’s life, and in a nation’s life, where siting on the sidelines just isn’t an option."

WAG

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"

Mao Tse-Tung

"Truth Does Not Fear Knowledge"

"When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water"

"When you find you are digging yourself into a hole, dig faster, you’ll get to your destination sooner”

WAG

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much"

Ronald Reagan

"And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men"

Ayn Rand

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

James Madison

"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."

"That to which we aspire, though can not attain, we tear down"

WAG

"Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference"

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government"

James Madison

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”

Mark Twain

"The US dollar is backed by little more than confidence. Confidence in people's lack of understanding of how America's monetary system functions."

"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak"

"Why would anyone save for tomorrow, if tomorrow, that which you can buy today, will be so much more expensive. Therein lies the problem. Therein lies the plan."

WAG

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics”

Robert Green Ingersoll

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims”

Ayn Rand

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets”

Will Rogers

“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil”

Ayn Rand

“The honesty of the press is as great an object to society as the freedom of it.”

Thomas Paine

"Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience"

"Ask why until you understand"

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think"

Adolf Hitler

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

Paul Horning

"Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you"

John D. Ashcroft

“My greatest thought is my accountability to God”

Daniel Webster

"Freedom is never won in a single battle - It must be fought for every day"

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left"

Yesterday is history; Tomorrow is a mystery: Today is a gift, that’s why we call it the Present"

Winnie the Pooh

"Nothing beats a failure but the failure to try"

"I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money"

Bob Hope

"Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine."

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Pastor Martin Niemöller

"A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks"

Charles Gordy

"Until such time that compassion is measured by helping people to help themselves, we will only ensure the enslavement of others, in the very name of compassion"

WAG

“We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

“Man is not free unless government is limited … As government expands, liberty contracts”

Ronald Reagan

"It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man."

Psalm 118:8

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people"

Victor Borge

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men"

Thomas Henry Huxley

"The power to unite is stronger than the power to destroy"

Anonymous

“Liberalism is not really a political philosophy. Instead, it is a state of arrested emotional development. It is a way of thinking, which leads to no place in the real world. It is a place existing only in the imagination”

Mike S. Adams

“The tragedy in life is not reaching your goals, it is to have no goals to achieve”

"I know of no way to judge the future but by the past"

“One man with courage is a majority”

Thomas Jefferson

"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul"

Yiddish Proverb

“Rarely is it said after Senate debate that everything has not been said, rather it is whether every Senator has said it”

"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little"

Mark Twain

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”

Winston Churchill

"Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed often, and for the same reason."

Mark Twain

"Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were"

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic”

"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity"

Karl Marx

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"

Mark Twain

“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing how it happened”

Norman Thomas - Socialist Party Presidential candidate (1976)

“There’s only one kind of patriotism, and that’s the kind that loves and supports – not loathes and fears – America”

Rush Limbaugh

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it"

William Arthur Ward

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief"

Joseph Addison

"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin"

Mark Twain

"Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God"

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today"

Cherokee proverb

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."

Pericles (495-429 BC)

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain"

Mark Twain

“I used to think of Wall Street as a financial center. I now think of it as a crime scene.”

Danny Schecter

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"

Mark Twain

“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”

Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity"

Albert Einstein

"An armed man is a citizen; a disarmed man is a subject"

"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"

Thomas Edison

"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."

Justice Felix Frankfurter

“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it”

Ayn Rand

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”

James Madison

“May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past”

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves”

Thomas Sowell (1992)

"Should FDR have warned us about Pearl Harbor?"

Rush Limbaugh

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

George Santayana

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it"

Thomas Jefferson

"You can't have freedom of speech, and at the same time have people not being offended"

Rush Limbaugh

"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective - election and power are"

Cal Thomas

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ships are safe in harbors, but that's not what ships are for...

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington

“The satisfaction acquired through giving surpasses those pleasures attained from receiving”

"Beer: helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B.C."

W. C. Fields

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time."

George Sutherland

“A woman's outfit should be like a barbed-wire fence - serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”

Sophia Loren

"Welfare is mistrusted by those who pay for it, and held in contempt by those who receive it"

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”

Vince Lombardi

"God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for her first question."

“It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think."

Eugene Ionesco

"Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back"

Steven Wright

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

Margaret Thatcher

"The purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the First Amendment"

"If you tell the truth often enough, people will come around to believing it"

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress”

Mark Twain

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents"

James Madison

"Republicans in Washington have shown that the word ‘cave’ is a noun in places like Afghanistan, but it’s a verb in places like Congress"

Rush Limbaugh

“Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured.... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”

"When GOD fights for Israel, Israel wins"

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar"

Mark Twain

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Taylor - 1816)

"If we're dealing with Islamic nations, the suspects are Middle Eastern. Some people call that profiling. Law enforcement people would call it a clue."

Wayne LaPierre

“To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth”

"One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

Moliere

"Half the people you know are below average"

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value"

Albert Einstein

"If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are"

Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him”

Robert A. Heinlein

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes"

Mark Twain

"If you tell a lie, but have a good reason for telling that lie, then it really is not a lie."

WAG

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."

Thomas Jefferson

"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."

Wendell Phillips

“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation”

James Madison

"Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition"

"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour"

"If Mother Nature doesn’t get you, Father Time will"

"Don't steal - The government hates competition"

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts"

Abraham Lincoln

"Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Accept the past, look to the future, live in the present”

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"

Thomas Jefferson

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned in life. It goes on."

Robert Frost

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

George Washington

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed”

Joseph Stalin

"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil"

Ephesians 6:11

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half”

“The tragedy in life is not reaching your goals, it is to have no goals to achieve”

“Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”

Alexis de Tocqueville

Thinking is hard work – that is why so few engage in it”

Mark Twain

"If you choose public service, choose it to serve the public, not your bank account. When you're done serving, go home. Get a real job."

Jack Abramoff

"I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson

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

Ronald Reagan

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins”

William Pitt

"Laughing at oneself is often the best source of humor"

WAG

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."

Ronald Reagan

“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself”

James Madison

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up"

Mark Twain

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder"

George Washington

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax"

Albert Einstein

"The best thing you can do for the poor is not become one"

Reverend Ike

"We are fast approaching a time when the majority sign the back of the check, rather than the front"

"The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money"

Margaret Thatcher

"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin"

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"A bad day on the lake is better than a good day at the office"

"The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office"

Will Rogers

“The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them”

Jason Laumark

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing"

Albert Einstein

"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind"

Hugo Black

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine"

Lord Byron

"You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom"

"Knowledge is power yes, and often a burden as well"

WAG

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence"

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”

Robert Green Ingersoll

"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors."

Plato

"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that aren't true”

Mark Twain

"Few men think, yet all will have opinions"

George Berkeley

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises"

Demosthenes

"If you’re not getting flack, you’re not over the target"

"it is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."

Benjamin Franklin

“We always have enough time to do a job a second time – and never enough time to do it right the first time”

"Wise men learn from their mistakes, wiser men learn from the mistakes of others"

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

Thomas Paine

“The University campus is the only place where everything that a parent has taught a young person for 18 years is completely undermined in one semester of their freshman year"

Kevin McCullough

"Knowledge is a powerful tool. Without it, a powerful tool one becomes."

WAG

"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees"

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain"

Robert Frost

"BEER: "I" before "E," except in Budweiser."

Professor Irwin Corey

"Those ignorant of history are condemned to repeat it."

"At least the federal governments is there to hand you a crutch after it breaks your leg, right?"

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

Patrick Henry

"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory"

"The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Law, once a shield of the innocent, is now a weapon in the hands of government"

Paul Craig Roberts

"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done"

George W. Bush

"You can observe a lot just by watchin"

Yogi Berra

"If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates"

Jay Leno

“It’s better to die a Hero, than live the life of a Coward”

Charles Woods (father of murdered Benghazi SEAL Tyrone Woods) in a message to President Obama

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."

Edward Langley (artist)

“Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer”

Ludwig von Mises

"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms"

Thomas Jefferson

“If you tax something more, you get less of it. If you subsidize something you get more of it”

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."

George Washington

"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."

Anonymous

"Before you open your mouth to speak, please make sure it's an improvement upon the silence"

"If you really want to judge a man's character, give him power"

"Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production"

Ayn Rand

"When in doubt tell the truth"

Mark Twain

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

Edmund Burke

“May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live”

"The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits."

Albert Einstein

"The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list"

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't"

Mark Twain

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

Thomas Jefferson

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

Albert Einstein

"In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act"

George Orwell

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

Kenneth Boulding (economist)

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."

H.L. Mencken

"Adversity makes a good man better"

"The day that you are born is the day that you begin to die"

William Faulkner

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."

Thomas Jefferson

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it"

Bob Hope

"Everything the Democrats do is the result of a political calculation designed to take advantage of something going wrong"

Rush Limbaugh

"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach"

Albert Einstein

"Ask not that GOD be on our side, insist that we be on His"

WAG

"A joy shared is doubled, a sorrow shared is halved"

"Sports do not build character, they reveal it."

"Just because someone says something that’s not factual, does not mean it’s not truthful, if they believe what they are saying."

Liberal Logic

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

James Madison

"Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it"

"All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures"

Julius Caesar

"Inflation rewards debt – and erodes savings. It is legalized counterfeiting, the deliberate creation of money with nothing to back it up."

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"

Thomas Jefferson

"There’s no such thing as the future, just history that hasn’t happened yet."

Harry Truman

"Reputation is what others perceive you to be. Character is what you are"

John Wooden

"There has never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others."

David Boaz

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny"

Edmund Burke

People once came to America to GIVE all that they had, to become all that they could. Now they come only to TAKE all that they can.

WAG

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow"

Mark Twain

"The government that can give you everything you want, can take everything that you have"

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target"

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian."

Henry Ford

Scheme: “To be shady or otherwise use intellectual power to deceive or carry out a plan for a personal interest. To plan to do something to get someone’s money, most often by cheating.”

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them"

Bill Vaughan

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”

Ronald Reagan

“Government is not the answer to our problems -- government is the problem"

Ronald Reagan

"We now have more people in the business of preparing tax returns than we have in the … army”

Dick Cheney

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance."

James Madison

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"

Mark Twain

"I have more guns than I need but fewer than I want"

Mike Adams

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy"

Winston Churchill

“You don’t marry someone you can live with; you marry the person who you cannot live without”

"Go put your creed into your deed."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed”

Robert A. Heinlein

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality"

Ayn Rand

“It’s a funny thing about free speech: It can’t be just for your political friends. If freedom means anything, it is the one valuable gift you have to give to your worst enemies, in order to keep it for yourself”

Doug Christie

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"

John Adams

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend" .

Martin Luther King, Jr

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means"

Albert Einstein

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get"

Mark Twain

"Never pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel"

Mark Twain

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable"

Mark Twain

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly"

Robert Schuller

“Always speak the truth, and you will never be concerned with your memory”

"For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

Margaret Thatcher

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program"

Milton Friedman

"Rights are granted by the individual, or governmental agency, that signs your welfare check"

WAG

"The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice"

Plato

"Don't cry because it’s over, smile because it happened"

"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron"

Joseph Stalin

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

Patrick Henry

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it."

Frederic Bastiat

"Failure is sucess if we learn from it"

Malcolm S. Forbes

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand"

Mark Twain

"A free people ought to be armed"

George Washington

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul”

George Bernard Shaw

"A woman with a gun can't be beaten"

GR

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated"

Mohandas Gandhi

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

Benjamin Franklin

“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Life is but an experiment, and we are all lab rats."

WAG

“To be fair, we should all be allowed our own set of facts, truth be dammed”

WAG

"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but it is wise if we are foolish"

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

John F. Kennedy

“Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation”

Fletcher Knebel, Historian

“Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

”In war there is no substitute for victory”

General Douglas MacArthur

"One man with courage is a majority"

Thomas Jefferson

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."

"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment"

Willis Player

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"

Thomas Jefferson

"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."

Cicero, 55 BC

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular"

Adlai E. Stevenson

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If I could live my life over again, I wouldn't have time"

Bob Hope

"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself."

St. Augustine

"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

“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

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws"

Ayn Rand

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

Thomas Jefferson

"That which does not destroy me, makes me stronger"

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead”

Will Rogers

"Make sure the government treats others the same, as you would want the government to treat you. … Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution”

Charley Reese

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”

Thomas Jefferson

"No Man is a Failure who has Friends"

It's A Wonderful Life

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead"

Benjamin Franklin

It's not that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so"

Ronald Reagan

“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court Justice)

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."

John Adams

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings"

Hodding Carter, J.R.

"A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip"

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of a Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

John Jay

"To some it's a six-pack, to me it's Support Group Salvation in a can"

Leo Durocher

"Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with"

"Golf is a good walk spoiled"

Mark Twain

“There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do”

Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money."

Daniel Webster

“Worse than evil is the apathy that allows it”

"A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality"

"Disobedience to tyrants is Obedience to God"

Benjamin Franklin

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives"

Mark Twain

"Ignorance is the sperm of APATHY"

WAG

“You cannot strengthen the weak, by weakening the strong.”

Abraham Lincoln

“There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give it everything”

Vince Lombardi

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty"

Thomas Jefferson

"A day without laughter is a day wasted"

Charlie Chaplin

"Look at yourself, like yourself, and find the positive"

Dana Buchman

“You learn a lot about people not just by what they say, but by what they don't say”

"Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not"

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance”

Spanish Proverb

"Winners make things happen - Losers let things happen"

"I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty"

Strom Thurmond

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top"

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

George Washington

“The Nine most feared words – I am with the government and here to help”

Ronald Reagan

"Ronald Reagan pursued those things which he believed in, not necessarily those things which he knew he could win"

Rush Limbaugh

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace"

George Washington

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Upton Sinclair

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it"

Mark Twain

“So far consumers are worried about the future. Once they start worrying about the present, we’re in trouble.”

“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"The irony of life is that, by the time you're old enough to know your way around, you're not going anywhere."

"Life without GOD is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point"

"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."

George Orwell

"It is never too late to be what you might have been"

George Eliot

"Hey, don’t get me wrong. I 'm all for the government (spending) investing our money into “shovel” ready projects, so long as I’m the one selling the shovels."

WAG

"Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get”

Kinky Friedman

“The first duty of government is the protection of life, not its destruction. The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.”

Thomas Jefferson

"If most thinking people supported him, it still wouldn't be enough in America because "I need a majority"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"A great man never ignores the simplicity of a child"

Chinese fortune cookie

"Media outlets exist not to inform us, but to influence us; not to educate us, but to enrich themselves"

WAG

"When people fear government, there is tyranny – When government fears the people, there is liberty"

Thomas Paine

"Never allow success to go to your head, nor failure to your heart."

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Government can solve nearly any problem. After all, they created most of them"

WAG

"Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom"

Mark Twain

"Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves."

Author Unknown

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing"

Mark Twain

“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them"

George Mason

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."

George Washington

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation"

"The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese"

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

Samuel Adams

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted"

Vladimir Lenin

“I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”

Margaret Thatcher

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones"

Phillip Brooks

"There are lies, damned lies and statistics"

Mark Twain

"The truth is usually pretty simple, but as I’m sure you would agree, finding it in the mainstream media is next to impossible"

Ann Coulter

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf"

Bob Hope

"When you vote to allow the taking of another life, you are complicit in the taking of that life."

"I’ve had my fun and I didn’t enjoy it"

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities”

Ayn Rand

"Debt is the slavery of the free."

Publilius Syrus

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical"

Yogi Berra

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

"He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all."

"It is so much more difficult to manipulate people when they are educated and enlightened"

WAG

"The idea of war is not to die for your country. It's to make the other poor S.O.B. die for his"

General George Patton

"If you cannot prove a lie is a lie, is it then the truth?"

WAG

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal."

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

Frederic Bastiat

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

Vladimir Lenin

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."

Thomas Sowell

"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step"

Dr. Martin Luther King

"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."

Tullius Cicero

“To be clever enough to get all that money, you must be stupid enough to want it”

G. K. Chesterton

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies"

Thomas Jefferson

"As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

Andrew Carnegie

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none"

Thomas Jefferson

"The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry"

Maya Angelou

"Never spend your money before you have it"

Thomas Jefferson

“Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne”

Robert Green Ingersoll

"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."

Vladimir Lenin

"A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give."

Unknown

“I know enough to know, there is so much that I do not know”

"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."

Milton Friedman

"If voting made a diference, it would be illegal"

"I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality"

Bob Hope

"Ignorance is the lifeblood of every politician"

WAG

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public"

"Who better to solve a problem then the people responsible for creating it in the first place."

WAG

"When resolving any problem I look to the source. Government is the answer"

WAG

"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it"

Mark Twain

“The largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources and to a higher rate of economic growth is the unrealistically heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative and incentive.”

John F. Kennedy - special message to Congress on tax reduction and reform (1/24/63)

"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”

Margaret Thatcher

"Debt is the worst poverty."

Thomas Fuller

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked”

Voltaire

"If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong"

"For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle"

Winston Churchill

"It is said that all humor has a little bit of truth to it. Sarcasm, it is said, often contains a lot of truth with the thinnest veneer of humor."

"Every morning is the dawn of a new error."

"The man that sets out to change the world without first changing himself is a fool"

"Heroes get remembered - but legends never die"

"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse"

Adlai E. Stevenson

"Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own"

"Liberalism faltered when it turned out it could not cope with the truth"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Perception is today’s reality”

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."

Ronald Reagan

"Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail"

“When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws”

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"If you're not out there upsetting idiots, you just might be yourself an idiot"

Ted Nugent

"I don’t know what my future holds, but have faith in whose hands it’s held."

"Belief in a falsehood does not make it true"

WAG

"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party"

Winston Churchill

"Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it"

Edmund Burke

“Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency: their sole object is gain”

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party"

Joseph Stalin

“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates"

Tacitus

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress"

John Adams

"I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you"

"Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerly exercised for the good of its victims may be the most opressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

C. S. Lewis

"One man practicing good sportsmanship is far better than 50 others preaching it"

Knute Rockne

"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."

James A. Garfield

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously"

Oscar Wilde

“If you laid all the economists in the world end to end, they would not reach a conclusion”

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it"

Albert Einstein

"Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe"

Thomas Jefferson

"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."

Richard Henry Lee (1787)

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session"

Mark Twain

“The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about”

"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”

Margaret Thatcher

"An armed society is a polite society"

Robert A. Heinlein

“Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves”

Benjamin Constant, Brazilian statesman

"As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials."

Newt Gingrich

"When you give a monkey the choice between an addictive drug and food, it will starve to death."

Rick Perry

"Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state."

Vladimir Lenin

“Finding your purpose in life begins with Faith, Hope, and Charity”

“When the power of Love overcomes the love of Power, the world will know PEACE”

Jimi Hendrix

"Liberals have two sets of rules – one for the average Joe, the ordinary American who they have contempt for and don’t have much faith in, and another set of rules for themselves"

Rush Limbaugh

“There's nothing better than a friend ... unless it's a friend with chocolate.”

Charles Dickens

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill

"Golf scores are directly proportional to the number of witnesses"

“Be truthful … Truth leads to trust”

"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope"

Karl Marx

"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain"

"If you can’t explain what you're doing in simple English, you’re probably doing something wrong"

Alfred Kazin

"Destroy the family, you destroy the country."

Vladimir Lenin

"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders"

Larry Elder

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

Robert Green Ingersoll

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks"

Doug Larson

"Sometimes, it's what you do not do, that makes you who you are"

"I oppose the war, but support the troops"

Liberal Lingo

"The more comfortable you make welfare recipients, the more welfare recipients you will have."

WAG

“If you voted for Obama to prove that you were not a racist - Who will you vote for in 2012 to prove that you are not an idiot?”

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have."

"If it ain't broken, fix it until it is"

Government Motto

"Socialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left. While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another, they both march in the same direction"

Paul Proctor

"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing"

Miecyslaw Kasprzyk

"Spend other people's money as though it was your own"

WAG

"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal"

Adlai E. Stevenson

“I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS”

Malcolm Forbes (when asked if he was afraid of terrorism)

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."

Josef Stalin

"May your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and may nothing but happiness come through your door"

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily"

George Washington

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure"

Mark Twain

"Find something that you love, and you will never work a day in your life"

"If only the Nazis and Soviets had been as merciful to the innocent as America is to the guilty"

Senator Jim Talent

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it”

Henry David Thoreau

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen"

Mark Twain

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value"

Albert Einstein

"A memorandum is written to protect the writer -- not to inform the reader"

Dean Acheson

"It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future"

Yogi Berra

"Bureaucracy is nothing more than the hardening of an organization's arteries"

William P. Anthony

"A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station"

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."

George Washington

At that point when we put America first, will be the time that this nation begins to heal itself”

WAG

"Comedy is tragedy plus time"

Woody Allen

"Free speech is a two-way street, and if you use it, you'd better be prepared to dodge oncoming traffic"

Doug Powers

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom”

Thomas Jefferson

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think"

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

Vladimir Lenin

"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself"

Ronald Reagan

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

Charles de Montesquieu

"Real courage is found, not in the willingness to risk death, but in the willingness to stand, alone if necessary, against the ignorant and disapproving herd"

Jon Roland (1976)

"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation."

John Adams

"Feed a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys”

P. J. O'Rourke

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery”

Winston Churchill

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back"

“Don't ever argue with an idiot.... they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

Anonymous

"The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas"

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail"

Benjamin Franklin

"To delve inside the liberal progressive mind, one must endure a dark and errie place, absent all logic and devoid all reason and common sense"

WAG

"A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it."

"You're never too old to learn something stupid"

"Comedy brings out laughter, tragedy fear. Hopelessness leads to despair, sadness a tear. It takes a unique individual who can elicit all of these emotions by the mere mention of their name – Obama is a unique individual"

WAG

"I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"

Ayn Rand

"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."

Dave Barry

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap"

Napoleon Bonaparte

“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of citizens to give to the other”

Voltaire (1764)

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves”

Winston Churchill

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

Benjamin Franklin

“Paper money is founded upon fraud and knavery”

George Mason (letter to George Washington)

“To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will."

Ronald Reagan

"The woman’s mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.”

Margaret Thatcher

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward"

“Tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth”

Joseph Goebbels

"Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing"

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning"

Albert Einstein

"Modern day liberalism is a disease that literally has the power to poison the character of those who fall under its spell"

Rush Limbaugh

"This is like deja vu all over again"

Yogi Berra

“A person who lives by logic and studies history and tries to implement the lessons learned by history cannot begin to rationally explain the conduct of this president or his attorney general or this administration,” Nugent said. “It is psychotic, it is crazy, it is illogical.”

Ted Nugent

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The only real power comes out of a long rifle"

Joseph Stalin

"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut"

Sam Rayburn

“Success in business, as in life, requires character, confidence, consistency, commitment and courage. It's a marathon, not a sprint"

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For when democracy becomes tyranny, those of us with rifles still get to vote"

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

Ronald Reagan

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance"

Joseph Stalin

"Plan ahead, Noah didn’t build the Ark in a storm"

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

William Pitt

“If you have truth on your side, you really don't need to lie”

Paul Jacob

“When your talent interests a human need, you are on the path of your life’s purpose”

"Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns"

Thomas Jefferson

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter"

Mark Twain

"I love my job, I love fighting for what I believe in, I love having fun while I am doing it, I love reporting stories that the complex refuses to report, I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and famously I enjoy enemies."

Andrew Breitbart

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years you would have a shortage of sand.”

Milton Friedman

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

Bertrand Russell

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty"

John F. Kennedy

"No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child"

Abraham Lincoln

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval"

Mark Twain

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice"

WAG

"It is far easier to introduce a government program than to get rid of it"

Milton Friedman

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

Joseph Stalin

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent"

Abraham Lincoln

"In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity"

Alexander Pope

“The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

“A goal without a plan is just a wish”

Larry Elder

"The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency."

Vladimir Lenin

“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains”

Winston Churchill

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."

George Washington

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it - If it keeps moving, regulate it - And if it stops moving, subsidize it“

Ronald Reagan

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

Margaret Thatcher

“Always love your country — but never trust your government”

Robert Novak

“I am proud of my country, yet ashamed of my government”

"Rather than being a selfless act of service, becoming a politician is now about enriching oneself"

WAG

“If a man doesn’t find something he is willing to die for, he isn’t fit to live”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing is more destructive to a democracy than ignorance and an uniformed citizenry"

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"

Thomas Jefferson

"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."

Mohandas Gandhi

“Wisdom is the chief element of happiness”

Sophocles

"Police in Austria are looking for a bank robber who wears a Sarah Palin mask while committing robberies. He started out with a Barack Obama mask, but no one took him seriously"

Jay Leno

"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns"

Joseph Stalin

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you want to protect vital national security secrets from WikiLeaks, just put them in the same vault as Obama's birth certificate"

Mike Huckabee (a.k.a The Guv)

"Why is it that so many individuals place their trust in people to solve the very problems which those people created in the first place?"

WAG

"The great ignorant failure of the left: Though it has learned how to get elected, it has not learned how to govern."

Daniel Greenfield

“When the desire for success, overcomes the fear of failure, great things can be achieved”

WAG

"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."

Douglas Casey

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education"

Mark Twain

"The optimist simply does not have all the facts."

WAG

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them"

Mark Twain

"Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied"

Mark Twain

"Show me your friends I'll show you your future"

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read"

Mark Twain

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty"

Thomas Jefferson

"How the media reports what they report (their bias) is important. What they choose to report (or not report) is equally important"

WAG

“When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already....”

Adolph Hitler

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one"

Alexander Hamilton

“Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’”

Margaret Thatcher

"One of the greatest ironies of our day is that in this age of information, so many are so ignorant"

WAG

"Life is not measured by the breaths that we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!"

Unknown

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"One man with a gun can control 100 without one"

Vladimir Lenin

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical”

Thomas Jefferson

"Profanity is the act of a feeble mind attempting to express itself forcibly"

"Our political parties are broken and have failed miserably. They stand for nothing and will compromise everything”

David Stockman

“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong”

Ronald Reagan

"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors"

Plato

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

"He who fails to prepare, prepares for failure"

“In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

Hunter S. Thompson

“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them"

Alfred Adler

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not"

Thomas Jefferson

"There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the world"

Thomas Jefferson

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate” Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."

James Bovard

"Most bad government has grown out of too much government"

Thomas Jefferson

"You don’t get ahead in life by looking into your rear view mirror"

WAG

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"

Charles Caleb Colton

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”

John Adams (1826)

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror"

Byrd Baggett

"Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go"

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Benjamin Franklin

"There is no right way to do wrong"

"Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent"

Ayn Rand

“A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

Winston Churchill

"Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals"

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April fifteenth"

Ronald Reagan

“Gold is important, but so are guns and ammunition, and it’s the guys with the guns and ammunition that’ll get the gold in the end”

"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up"

"A nation of sheep will get a government of wolves"

Edward R. Murrow

"When the Federal Reserve cites statistics to claim that there is not much evidence of inflation, we need to keep in mind that the statistics they rely on exclude food and energy prices. The cost of living is no sweat if you can do without electricity and food."

Thomas Sowell

Common Sense: “when we remove the sense, it becomes all too common”

WAG

"Japan would never invade the United States. We would find a rifle behind every blade of grass."

Isoroku Yamamoto

"Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat"

Mark Twain

"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Look to Government to solve most problems. Often going to the source is the best solution"

WAG

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare"

Mark Twain

“American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it”

Dave Barry

"In America today, it's considered anti-American to be pro-American"

Rush Limbaugh

"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."

George Washington

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."

Mahatma Ghandi

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force"

Ayn Rand

"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart"

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue." - Iwo Jima

“If government didn’t create problems they’d be left will none to solve”

WAG

"Aspire to inspire before you expire."

"In politics, never let facts get in the way of a good story"

WAG

“No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury”

Alexander Tytler

"Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach"

“Bureaucracy -- the organizational weaknesses that cause smart people to make dumb decisions”

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Winston Churchill

"We are great because we are good"

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them"

Frederick Douglass

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time"

Mark Twain

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy"

Ernest Benn

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Thomas Jefferson

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured"

Mark Twain

"The experiment of self-government can't work where people do not govern themselves"

James Madison

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"

Albert Einstein

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard"

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned"

Mark Twain

"The goal of socialism is communism."

Vladimir Lenin

“Every library is an arsenal”

Robert Green Ingersoll

"Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.”

Margaret Thatcher

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence"

C. A. Beard

"Ignorance is the truest form of freedom"

"Democracy is the road to socialism."

Karl Marx

"This year will go down in history; for the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"

Adolph Hitler (1935)

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"

Abraham Lincoln

"I will prepare, and some day my chance will come"

Abraham Lincoln

"Great men do not set out to be great, they set out to do great things"

"I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure"

"History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall"

Adolf Hitler (1939)

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left"

Ecclesiastes 10:2 NIV

"How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire"

"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research"

"Gray hair is God's graffiti"

Bill Cosby

"If we agreed 100 percent of the time, one of us wouldn't be necessary"

"Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does"

Whittaker Chambers

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves”

Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing is more powerful in a democracy than knowledge”

Rudy Giuliani

"Al Gore proved that you can win the Presidential election without a single Southern state"

John Kerry

"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke off the unused path"

"It took Teddy Kennedy longer to call the police after his Oldsmobile sunk at Chappaquiddick, than it took the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard"

Rush Limbaugh

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of anyone else”

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything”

Mark Twain

"You can not raise the weak, by holding down the strong"

Abraham Lincoln

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt"

Abraham Lincoln

“If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution”

“The very people, who will go to the ends of the earth to defend the most heinous of murderers, do not give a second thought to the taking of an innocent life”

WAG

Ineptocracy: (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of achieving, and where the members of society least likely to succeed or even to sustain themselves, are abundantly rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

"Laws were most numerous when the state was most corrupt"

Tacitus, The Annals III.27

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

Confucius

"We provide Americans an education in exchange for their commitment to serve in our armed forces, while at the same time, we offer amnesty to illegal immigrants in exchange for their commitment to vote Democrat for life."

WAG

"The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is opened"

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"

Confucious

"The more one worries, the older one gets; the more one laughs, the younger one feels"

Chinese proverb

"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Matthew 16:26

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

Ronald Reagan

"All receive advice - only the wise profit from it"

Syrus

"Truth will always fuel the embers of liberty"

WAG

"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one"

Mark Twain

"Terrorism is the weapon of the weak, against the strong"

“Nothing in the world will take the place of persistence … and determination”

Calvin Coolidge

"Don’t tell me how ruff the water is – just bring in the ship."

"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes"

Thomas Paine

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together"

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."

Theodore M. Hesburgh

"We have our theory; don't confuse me with the facts"

"Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy"

"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something"

“When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.”

Alexis de Tocqueville