Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.
I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.
The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.
Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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