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The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society. – John Adams Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right. – Lawrence Auster Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more. – John F. McManus Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
[A] public policy of simply discouraging people from owning or using firearms is not, in and of itself, a constitutionally permissible objective, any more than discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declassé as progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms .... And any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental hazard. – Daniel D. Polsby Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
The notion of editorial independence from ownership only dates back to the 1930s. Prior to that time the media was openly biased and that includes the Press that the founding fathers dealt with. Some of the founders like Hamilton and Franklin had actually ran media outlets that were very biased. You used to have things like Newspapers that openly proclaimed they were a Democratic or Republican or Whig or a Federalist newspaper right on the banner. The concept of an independent and allegedly neutral press was and still is mainly pushed by people from the left who do NOT want anything remotely neutral, but who instead want to make sure those evil business interests don't have a means of getting their side aired without it being filtered by their idea of what a neutral press consists of. – John Dobbins Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is -- it's got to be more government. – Harry Browne Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom… What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint. – Tom Wicker Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. – Hubert H. Humphrey Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone. – Edgar Watson Howe Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree – Thomas Paine Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. – Dalai Lama Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
It is a basic principle of a tyrant to unarm his people of weapons, money, and all means whereby they resist his power. – Sir Walter Raleigh Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
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 Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
It is unreasonable... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life. – Charles de Montesquieu Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. – Mark Twain Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings. – Edmund B. Chaffee Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know. – Arthur Hays Sulzberger Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of the public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of the public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valueable, and your freedom less complete. – Benjamin Disraeli Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. – Ezra Pound Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Throughout the history of the United States, war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance. – Bruce D. Porter Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Only a debt-backed system of paper money could finance the great wars, the social improvements and the fevered dreams of the 20th century. – Brian Maher Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. – General George Patton Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. – Epictetus Famous Quote	added 2 years ago

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