Quotes - Words Worth Repeating
16 Choice Quotes from the Father of the Constitution“Equal laws, protecting equal rights.”

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United Sates, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition." 
Thomas Jefferson (opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 15 February 1791--PatriotPost.US
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“Capitalism is a source of value. It’s the most amazing vehicle for social cooperation that has ever existed."
John Mackey, Co-Founder of Whole Foods Market
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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Sir Francis Bacon
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"I've searched the parks in all the cities and found no statues to committees."
G.K.Chesterton
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"The Founders could not have anticipated what the America of 2011 would look like. They set down certain principles that could guide us into the future. These principles -- like limited government -- transcend eras. As with Scripture, the Constitution contains eternal truths. If followed, one leads to a more ordered life in America and the other to a better afterlife."
Cal Thomas in his 1/4/11 article, "Constitutionalists vs. 'Interpretationists'"
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“America is exceptional because, unlike any other nation, it is dedicated to the principles of human liberty, grounded on the truths that all men are created equal and endowed with equal rights.” While other nations are bound by a common ethnicity, religion, or history, America’s dedication to liberty makes it unique."
The Understanding America series examines the significance of the United States’ founding principles and why its continuing commitment to those principles matters to freedom everywhere.
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The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom." - Planning for Freedom
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"If we had indexed the retirement age to life expectancy, it would be way in the seventies now. The idea of a pension instituted by FDR and before him, Bismarck, was to support you in your old age. We are not retiring in old age, and it isn’t even close, and that’s the huge mistake we make. A third of your life is spent receiving the funds of other people who pay taxes, and that’s completely unsustainable."
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"The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind."
--Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 5, 1778 HT Patriot Post
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"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice & oppression of another equals an erroneous and mistaken policy"
-- B Franklin
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"The freedom and happiness of man...[are] the sole objects of all legitimate government." --T Jefferson, 1810 HT PatiotPost
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"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
Thomas Jefferson, autobiography, 1821 HT PatriotPost
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"Here, nearly everyone works for the state and official unemployment is minuscule, but pay is so low that Cubans like to joke that 'the state pretends to pay us and we pretend to work.'"
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Ludwig von Mises: "The main point in the propaganda of Nazism between 1919 and 1933 was: World Jewry and Western capitalism have caused your misery; we will fight these foes, thus rendering you more prosperous."
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and applying the wrong remedy.” Groucho Marx
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"Under an unhampered market economy the appraisal of each individuals effort is detached from any personal considerations and can therefore be free both from bias and dislike. The market passes judgment on the products, not on the producers." - L. Von Mises Bureaucracy
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Bill Gorton: "How did you go bankrupt?"
Mike Campbell: "Gradually, and then suddenly."
--Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
Ludwig Von Mises
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The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (yes, the one that took the grain from his people and let them starve)
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My doctors told me I would never walk again; my mother told me I would, so I believed my mother.
Wilma Rudolph (a great track star who overcame polio as a child with the help of her family)
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“We make a great mistake in calling the American War of Independence, the 'American Revolution,'...In 1776 the Americans rebelled against recent rules and impositions.  What they wanted was not a new type of government, but the old type they enjoyed.  They were used to many freedoms, which they claimed as the immemorial rights of Englishmen.  Once they defeated the English armies and expelled the Loyalists, they went back to their former ways, which they modestly enlarged, and codified in the Bill of Rights.” --Jacques Barzun - a professor and dean at Columbia University and a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner.
HT Star Parker

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”       -- Author Unknown
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"...Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with its French and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinian populations ... Third World hellholes like Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Central, L.A....'Diversity' is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: 'Cancer is a strength!' 'Pollution is our greatest asset!...'"  Ann Coulter

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"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual, than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses." Dag Hammarskjold, former UN Secretary-General

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"If you can't measure it; you can't manage it." Common-sense business advice.

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"...Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong..." Thomas Sowell

"...Our Founding Father's and our great leaders believed that Our Creator is the source of America's liberty and our freedom..." Newt Gingrich

“Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors, when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.” - Francisco d’Anconia - “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, 1957, via BlogsforVictory and Capitalism

The future's in your hands. Anyone that says differently is trying to rob from you the God that lives within you. Don't let anybody take it away." Gerald Celente in 5min06sec

"[O]f those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants." --    Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1

"The most ravaged environments are always those countries with the most struggling economies, and these things do have to go hand in hand. If you decide we're going to destroy our economy to protect our environment, you ultimately destroy our environment..." Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri

"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?" Milton Friedman

Obama voters: "If you didn't get the change you wanted, you got the change you deserve." MCC
"This is a recurring problem of liberals. They are forever into posturing, assuming heroic moral stands, but rarely consider the consequences in the real world." Patrick Buchanan, "Cheney Shows the Way."

"Liberty has never come from the government..." President Woodrow Wilson (Hat tip: Patriot Post)

"Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines. Compromise is not an option, yet. At some point, the synthesis will set in. But now is the time for clear alternatives and sharp disagreement. Only then can we hope to extract America from the clutches into which it has fallen." Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, "No Triangulation Now" May 11, 2008

"...if you're dependent on the apparatus of government for paying your bills and for giving you power, you'll fight until the last man. So the left has a real advantage against the right on this question, because the left has nothing else. The right has business, they have church, they have all sorts of other things they can do; the left only has government." Mike Munger, Chair of Political Science at Duke University in interview in the 4/ 09 Limbaugh Letter
   

“The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”  Will Rogers

“A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but who doesn’t have a civil services examination.”  Ronald Reagan

“They say that true democracy is a perfect marriage between the people and the state - and in April the government reminds us that they married us for our money.”  Anonymous

“A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.”  Ann Landers

“I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States.  The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.”  Arthur Godfrey

“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”  Mark Twain

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

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”  Albert Einstein

“What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.”  Sam Levenson

"The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money." Tax Auditor                                   (hat tip to Connie Erickson, Door Cty Realty, for compiling these!)
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"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson (Would love to find when and in what communication he said this. Please let me know if you know a source.)

 

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."
Voltaire (1764)
 

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

"Annual income, 20 pounds; annual expenditure, 19 pounds. Result? Happiness. Annual income, 20 pounds; annual expenditure, 21 pounds. Result? Misery."
Wilkins Micawber in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"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

 

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw

 

"Each of us, Leonard Read said, must become candles of liberty in the darkness of collectivist ideas. The brighter we each shine through our understanding and ability to articulate the meaning of freedom, the more we will be beacons that can attract others."
Richard Ebeling

 

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan

"I've searched the parks in all the cities and found no statues to committees."
G.K.Chesterton

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln

 

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush