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

"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small 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."

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly ... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."

Thomas Paine.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George S. Patton

Let this be the distinctive mark of an American that in cases of commotion, he enlists himself under no man's banner, inquires for no man's name, but repairs to the standard of the laws. Do this, and you need never fear anarchy or tyranny. Your government will be perpetual.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.
- Winston Churchill

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.- Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

"Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.' "

“We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw

Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.

Leo Tolstoy

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

We easily forget that smog is the price of freedom of our streets from manure, and from the flies and diseases it brought.

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."
~~George Washington~~

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

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.

I 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.

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

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

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

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

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

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.