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"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves." -Nietzsche

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

"The buck stops here!" - Harry Truman

"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill

"Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses." — George Washington Carver

"By any measure, my administration has inherited a fiscal disaster." - Barack Obama

"Without people feeling the need to work to make a living, sheltered by state regulations that are excessively paternalistic and irrational, we will never stimulate a love for work." - Raul Castro July 18, 2010

"Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. " - Thomas Sowell

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future." - John F. Kennedy

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln

"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." - George Washington

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." - Thomas Sowell

"We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude..." - Thomas Paine

"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it..." - Alexis de Tocqueville

"Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good...

"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now ..." - John F. Kennedy

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today." - Thomas Sowell

"Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies." - Thomas Sowell

"People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln

"Error does not become truth because it is widely accepted; Truth does not become error, even when it stands alone." - Unknown

"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man" - Albert Einstein

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

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

"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides." - Walter Cronkite

"Compare this (40% to 75% total local, State and Federal tax rate) to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor a third of their output and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?" - Daniel J. Mitchell

"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it." - Thomas Sowell

"Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left..." - Thomas Sowell

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain

“rent ceilings are the most effective means yet for destroying cities, even more effective than the hydrogen bomb.” - Assar Lindbeck Swedish economist

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” - Gerald Ford

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

"If you think redistricting is always partisan and political which it is...it's going to be on steroids this time." - Rahm Emanuel President Obama's Chief of Staff

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich...

"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

"We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!" - Henry Morganthau FDRs Treasury Secretary

"I am above God and above the law." - Mao Zedong (or Tse Tung)

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power." - Benjamin Franklin

"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages." - H.L. Mencken

"No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity." - Ronald Regan

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. - James Madison

There's no such thing as a free lunch - Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. - Milton Friedman

"The fanatical atheists are like slaves..."

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. - Theodore Roosevelt

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell

in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable...2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax - Carl Marx

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. - Benjamin Franklin

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - John F. Kennedy

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. - Joseph Goebbels

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

Cui bono - Latin for, "To whose benefit?"

Imagine possibilities, not problems - Thomas Paine 2

"The government is best which governs least." - Thomas Jefferson

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