Saturday, December 22, 2007

Poltical Quotes

"Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."-John Adams

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."-Winston Churchill

"Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners."-Charlton Heston

"Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom."-Will Rogers

"Federalism sometimes restrains you from doing things you want to do. You have to leave the job to someone else – who may even choose not to do it at all. However, if conservatives abandon this valued principle that limits the federal government, or if we selectively use it as a tool with which to reward our friends and strike our enemies, then we will be doing a disservice to our country as well as the cause of conservatism."-Fred Thompson

2 comments:

Michael Follon said...

Here are a few quotes which I find interesting -

"Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law."

- Thomas Jefferson

'No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, "Thus far shalt thou go and no further".'

- Charles Stewart Parnell (1846 - 1891)

"Stop the world - Scotland wants to get on."

- Winnie Ewing (Madame Ecosse), SNP winner of the Hamilton by-election in 1967.

This is a saying which I recall from the 1970's -

'In order to be an internationalist you must first be a nationalist'.

Unknown said...

Hi Michael,

Thanks for posting these quotes. I like them.