Quotes

Here you will find quotes from the famous as well as the infamous. Some will make you laugh, some will surprise you, and others may make you upset.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men (and women) do nothing. - Edmund Burke

I have heard of patriotism in the United States and I have found true patriotism among the people, but never among the leaders of the people. - Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" vol. 1, ch. 25 For the support of the declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. - Our founding fathers

I made my money selling too soon. - Bernard Baruch To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. - Thomas Jefferson The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

God, Isaiah 3:9 The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't wand to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. - Marcus Tillius Cicero, 55 B.C.

Buy Straw hats in January (when no one wants them) and mark them up and move them our in August (when everyone wants them). - Bernard Baruch

Whatever its origin, Europe today is no longer just about peace. it is about projecting collective power... Such a Europe can, it its economic and political strength, be a superpower - a superpower, not a superstate. - Tony Blair

Never, never, never, never give up! - Winston Churchill The United States should not sell gold from its reserves, although the idea of International Monetary Fund fold sales for their particular purposes is 'sound and sensible.' - Rubert Rubin, May 20, 1999 The reason that gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world,... gold is always accepted... and is perceived to be an element of stability in the currency and in the ultimate value of a currency. - Alan Greenspan

Part of growing up is learning how to control one's impulses. - Hillary Clinton, introducing President Clinton at a gun control speech.

The founders added the Second Amendment so that when, after a long train of abuses, a government evinces a methodical design upon our natural rights, we will have the means to protect and recover our rights. That is why the right to keep and bear arms was included in the Bill of Rights. - Alan Keyes, 8/14/98

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! - God, Isaiah 5:22-23

Will well-intended laws disarm potential victims? Crimes are stopped with guns about five times as frequently as crimes are committed with guns. - Wall Street Journal, 5/12/99 The president doesn't have to sign an executive order. He already has the power to go after our guns. - Larry Pratt (Head of GOA)

We are all internationalist now...like it or not. - Tony Blair

We will fundamentally undermine the role of the nation/state in Europe. - EU Head Romano Prodhi

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility. - President Clinton

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the governing of any other. - President John Adams

I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them...they would move on Washington, they would not wait for an election. It adds to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States. - George W. Malone, U.S. Senator from Nevada, 1957

Today, there's a national frenzy to make money, a frenzy probably unmatched since the 1920's. The unabashed urge 'to be rich,' to be a millionaire, has swept the nation. College kids don't want to be doctors anymore, they want to be venture capitalists or investment bankers. - Richard Russell 4/12/2000

I grant you that there are an awful lot of people in the market who cannot distinguish between what they are doing and what they would do at a casino. - Alan Greenspan, 4/14/2000

God Himself couldn't sink this ship. - 2:20 A.M. April 15, 1912, referring to the Titanic.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! - God, Isaiah 5:20 The degree of corruption is directly proportional to the level of speculation in society. - Anon.

We learn from history - we learn nothing from history. - Friedrich Hegel

Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. - George Santayana

Tell a lie, tell it often enough, and the people will believe it. - Adolph Hitler

Never underestimate the gullibility of the public. - Anon.

Of all the arts, for us, the most important is the cinema, - Lenin

If I could control the medium of the American motion picture, I would need nothing else to convert the entire world to Communism. - Stalin

You know the one thing that is wrong with this country - everybody gets a chance to have their fair say. - President Clinton, 5/29/93

Today's 'conservative' Republicans are about as conservative as Eleanor Roosevelt. - Walter C. Hancock

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! - God, Isaiah 5:21 As with most financial panics the stage had been set in advance by extravagant hopes and talk of a 'New Era'. ...Several times it seemed that the market had run its course and that a healthy reaction was on the way. Then a new stock would be brought forward and there would be another balloon ascension. - Bernard Baruch prior to the 1929 collapse But to make an omelet, you have to crack a few eggs! - Lenin The level of corruption in society is directly proportional to the level of speculation, which is directly related to the level of Fed monetary expansion (i.e., debt creation), which has been trillions of dollars in recent years. - Bill King, 2000

I will tell you something that will rock you. Kennedy was trying to get Castro, but Castro got to him first. - President Johnson to Howard K. Smith shortly before his death.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. - Bill of Rights, Amendment IV The enumeration on the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. - Bill of Rights, Amendment IX And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. - God, Isaiah 59:14-15 The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or the the people. - Bill of Rights, Amendment X

1935 will go down in history! For the first time a civilized nation has full gun control. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead in the future. - Adolph Hitler, 1935

Russia's Foreign Ministry praised the foreign policy of Gore, saying, "His objectives tended to coincide with those of the Kremlin." - Reuters, 2000

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and the corporation that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. - Thomas Jefferson

My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism. - President Clinton, Gabriel Carcia Marquez's article in "Salon Magazine," 2/1/99 The truth is this: The March of Providence is so slow and our desire so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long and that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are discouraged. It is history that teaches us hope. - Robert E Lee, 1860's

...the loss of 'constitutional morality,' the weakening of the authority of parents, pastors, priests, the sense of distance between governor and governed, the hopeless feeling that one does not count... We find ourselves, therefore, between those ready and anxious to scrap democracy on the one hand, and on the other, faint hears unwilling to defend it.

Shall we 'call it a day' and quit? Have we become so soft that we are no longer willing to fight, as our fathers did...? If so, we have sinned beyond absolution. The fault will not be in our leaders, whether statesmen or rabble-rousers. It will be in us. - Samuel Pettengill, a Democratic congressman, 1937

Ignorance ain't our problem, It's what we 'know' that ain't true. - Will Rogers

There can be no compromises with the Left. We are ideologically at opposite ends of the spectrum with no arbitration possible. Either they win or we do. They will run the government or we will. That's the only choice open to either of us. They know it...shouldn't we?! - H.L. Richardson, "Confrontational Politics"

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. - God, Lev 18:20 In harsh or melancholy epochs, free men may always take comfort from the grand lesson of history, that tyrannies cannot last except among servile races. The years that seem endless to those who endure them are but a flick of mischance in the journey. New and natural hopes leap from the human heart as every spring revives the cultivated soil and rewards the faithful, patient husbandmen. - Winston Churchill, "The History of the English Speaking Peoples" 1930's

If every parent in America knew what was really going on in the public schools, there would be a revolution. - Thomas Sowell

Theoretically, a society could be completely made over in something like 15 years, the time it takes to inculcate a new culture into a rising crop of youngsters. - John Stormer, "None Dare Call It Education"

The pre-dominant value system of an entire culture can be overturned in one generation, or certainly in two, by those with unlimited access to children. - Dr. James Dobson, early 1990's The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace. - Janet Reno, During a speech at a B'nai B'rith meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1991. (MIA 4/99, p. 21)

I solemnly affirm to exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience the functions entrusted to me as a member of the international service of the United Nations, to discharge those functions and regulate my conduct with the interest of the United Nations only in view and not to seek or accept instructions in respect to the performance of my duties from any government or other authority external to the organization. - Oath a U.S. military officer must swear when serving under the U.N.

[W}hen we got organized as a country...we wrote a fairly radical [U.S.] Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of freedom to Americans...so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom... When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. - President Clinton, 4/19/94

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. - God, II Chronicles 7:14

Always mistrust the obvious.

When weak, feign strength, and when strong, feign weakness. - Sun Tzu

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept a New World Order. - David Rockefeller

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. - Thomas Jefferson

Without a doubt, the worst source of news and information is TV. TV news is generally counterinformative. It precludes, dissuades you from getting the full story from the print format. It convinces you that you've got the news, instead of sound bites. TV news is voluntary brainwashing...Without truth, we are sheep. - Harry Schultz

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. - Secretary of Defense William Cohen, "Army Times" 1999 The event is in the hand of God. - George Washington A man can surely heat his stove by burning his furniture, yet he should not be deluded into believing that he has discovered a wonderful new method for heating his premises. - Ludwig von Mises

Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers and risked almost their entire existence...on a piece of paper. - Charles Mackay, "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the madness of Crowds"

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. - God, Prov 27:12

It's not Y2K related!

The stock market will take over just about every aspect of society. - Newsweek's User's Guide to the 21st Century

"...we envisage a single world community, as yet unrealized but advancing steadily toward fulfillment through our plans, our efforts, and our collective acts.

"Thus we see as our goal, not a super-state above nations, but a world community embracing them all." - President Eisenhower, speech to UN, Sept. 22, 1960

Good information doesn't cause a panic, it's the lack of such that incites fear. Forewarned people act with reason, but those caged in dark ignorance are most likely to lash out when surprised by unfortunate circumstances. - Mike Adams, founder of Y2K Newswire

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. - Winston Churchill

You can't have free trade with a country that isn't free. - Chuck Harder

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. - God, Prov 16:18

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. - God, Lev 18:22

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. - God, Prov 16:19

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. God, Lev 18:23 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. - God, Isaiah 3:14

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. - God, Psalm 33:12 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. - God, Psalm

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