quotes

Quote 1876

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, 1743-1826

Quote 1875

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

— Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826

Quote 1874

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, 1743-1826

Quote 1873

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

— Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826

Quote 1860

If the Cocaine Industry had commissioned a consultant to design a mechanism to insure profitability, it couldn't have done better than the War on Drugs.

Nancy Gertner, US District Court Judge

Quote 1855

Extracting a government loyalty oath from public school children is legalized extortion.

Quote 1825

Look, Dumbass. Gun laws INCREASE violent crime. Go Google it!

Quote 1796

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.

— Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826

Quote 1795

So obviously, if someone is against this they must not like kids, right?

Well, I love kids…especially with fava beans and a good Chianti...

Quote 1785

Some would ask, “How could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil.” They have missed a greater conundrum: “Why would a perfect God create a universe at all?"

— Sister Miriam Godwinson

Quote 1781

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

— Peter Drucker

Quote 1764

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

— Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963

Quote 1750

Saddlebacking: the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities (Saddlebacking.com)

— Dan Savage

Quote 1746

We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

— Woodrow Wilson

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Quote 1740

I'm a woodpecker for freedom. I'll just keep pecking away at the tyranny tree...

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