Jesse Helms Quotes

• Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

  Jesse Helms

  Zoos, Hills, Fence

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• Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

  Jesse Helms

  Believe, Bologna, Causes

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• If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

  Jesse Helms

  Jesus, Use, Metrics

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• White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

  Jesse Helms

  Daughter, White, Race

  "Come on, you liberals" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2001.

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• The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.

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  New York, Homosexual, Persons

  "Jesse Helms: Yankee Doodle Jesse" by Martin Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.

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  Sick, Weak, Homosexual

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• They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

  Jesse Helms

  Daughter, Son, Parent

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• Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.

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  Hands, Democracy, Good Things

  "Stupidity is not a resignable offense" by Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2003.

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• If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

  Jesse Helms

  Want, Fine, Call Me

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• On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

  Jesse Helms

  Fighting, Thoughtful, Winning

  Jesse Helms (2005). “Here's where I Stand: A Memoir”, p.64, Jesse Helms Center

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• To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.

  Jesse Helms

  Fashion, Thinking, Dancing

  "Ideas & Trends; The Quotations of Chairman Helms: Race, God, AIDS and More" by Kevin Sack, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2001.

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• Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

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  Children, School, Learning

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• I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

  Jesse Helms

  Strong, Believe, Fighting

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• It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

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  Disease, Responsible, Disgusting

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• The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

  Jesse Helms

  Men, Rights, Forever

  Jesse Helms (1984). “"A Lot of Human Beings Have Been Born Bums": 20 Years of the Words of Senator No”, Carolina Indepnt Publication Corporation

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• I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

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  Decision, Important, Speak

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• We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.

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  Country, Hate, School

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• Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.

  Jesse Helms

  Christian, Religious, Government

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• There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

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  Race, Two, Differences

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• Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.

  Jesse Helms

  People, Politics, Internet

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• Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.

  Jesse Helms

  Watches, Clinton, Bodyguard

  "Helms Takes New Swipe at Clinton, Then Calls It Mistake" by Steven Greenhouse, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 1994.

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• I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!

  Jesse Helms

  Marijuana, Two, Smoking

  "For Helms, His Home State Is Source of Foreign Policy" by David E. Sanger, www.nytimes.com. April 2, 1996.

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• The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

  Jesse Helms

  United States, Reform, Influence

  "UNA Greater Philadelphia: U.S. Should Fund the U.N. in Full and On Time!" by Louis Bolling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2017.

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• I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.

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  New York, America, World

  Jesse Helms (2005). “Here's where I Stand: A Memoir”, p.64, Jesse Helms Center

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• I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

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  Encouragement, Government, Want

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