Common Sense

When you're 20, if you're not a Liberal, you have no heart.
When you're 40, if you're not a Conservative, you have no brain.
-- Winston Churchill

Liberals -- More Taxes, More Government, Less Liberty.
Conservatives -- Less Taxes, Less Government, More Liberty.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
-- Patrick Henry

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-- Thomas Jefferson

The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
-- Margaret Thatcher

The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else.
-- Adrian Rogers

There is only one way to kill capitalism ... by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.
-- Karl Marx

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
-- Ronald Reagan

Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the Socialist State.
-- Vladimar Lenin

Socialism only works in two places: heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.
-- Ronald Reagan

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
-- Winston Churchill

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
-- President John Adams

What one person receives without working for ... another person must work for without receiving.

A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
-- Thomas Sowell

The American system of Democracy will flourish until the day that the politicians learn that they can bribe the electorate with their own money.
-- French philosopher Alexis De Tocqueville

There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.
-- Ronald Reagan

The goal of "entitlement" programs is to create dependency because that translates into votes for politicians who play Santa Claus. We have all heard the old saying about how giving a man a fish feeds him for a day, while teaching him to fish feeds him for a lifetime. Independence makes for a healthier society, but dependency is what gets votes for politicians. For politicians, giving a man a fish every day of his life is the way to keep getting his vote. “Entitlement” is just a fancy word for dependency. As for the scary stories politicians tell, in order to keep the entitlement programs going, as long as we keep buying it, they will keep selling it.
-- Thomas Sowell

The closest thing to immorality on earth is a government program.
-- Ronald Reagan

When the people fear the government - that is tyranny.
When the government fears the people - that is liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
-- Dr. Adrian Rogers

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until he voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship.
-- Professor Alexander Tyler -- This was written over 200 years ago while our 13 original colonies were still a part of Great Britain. In fact, Tyler was at the time writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic over 2,000 years earlier.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
-- Benjamin Franklin

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill

I am for doing good to the poor, but ... I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
-- Benjamin Franklin

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
-- James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C. S. Lewis

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrats have adopted our platform.
-- Norman Thomas - Six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
-- Samuel Adams

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
-- Milton Friedman

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
-- Ronald Reagan

That government is best which governs least.
-- Thomas Paine

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
-- Edmond Burke

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
-- Henry David Thoreau

He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.
--Leonardo Da Vinci

Fear is the motivator, money is the means, and control is the end. A proper skeptic always keeps these things in mind.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Con-men know that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable gullible people to continue to believe what they want to believe.

Bible Welfare System:
2 Thessalonians 3:10
10. If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

1 Timothy 5:8
8. But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

There are too many people in the wagon and not enough people pulling the wagon.

Whenever you rob Peter to pay Paul, you will always get Paul's vote.

Equality of opportunity not equality of results.

All of the Bill of Rights are individual rights.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes … Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
-- Thomas Jefferson

With 20,000 "reasonable" gun laws already on the books, what part of "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" don't the gun grabbers understand?"

We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty, rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is responsible for his actions.
-- Ronald Reagan

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
-- James Madison, The Federalist Papers #46 at 243-244

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
-- Thomas Jefferson

The truth is that the cops arrive in time to draw chalk lines around the dead bodies, it is your responsibility to make sure that the cops don't draw their lines around your body.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.

You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

A gun in the hand is better than a 911 operator on the phone.

When seconds count, the police are only five minutes away.

I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.

It is irresponsible to continue to imagine that police can be everywhere, or that they can respond with sufficient speed to prevent a homicidal rampage.

Police are second responders. The first responders are always we, the people, on the scene as events unfold.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
-- Adolf Hitler April 11, 1942

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the Party.
-- Mao Tze Tung, Nov 6, 1938

The Brady bill will make the streets of America so safe that our nation's police will not even need to carry guns anymore.
-- William Jefferson Clinton, on TV, while signing the Brady bill in 1993, quoted in Sheriff Richard Mack's book, The Magic of Gun Control.

God made man. Colonel Colt made them equal.

A gun is the only way that a 100-pound woman is equal to a 300-pound man.

“Gun Free Zones" are not "Criminal Free Zones”

A Conservative is a Liberal who just had his brother-in-law move in with his family.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Freedom means no tolls on Interstate highways and bridges.

To every man, there comes, in his lifetime, that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talent; what a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour.
-- Winston Churchill

Pastors such as the Reverend Martin Luther King, the Reverend Je$$e Jack$on, and the Reverend Al $harpton have been an embarrassment to God. God’s teachers should not be running all over the country protesting, being arrested, and thrown in jail. They should be at home tending to their church and preaching the gospel.

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs---partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."
-- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), American educator and author

10% National Retail Sales Tax -- No Deductions, No Exemptions, No Exceptions, No Social Engineering, No IRS, No Complicated Tax Code, No Withholding, No Audits, No Tax Attorneys, No Big Brother. No Taxes on Property. No Taxes on Investments. Only the end user pays the tax. Nobody gets a free ride. Even the drug dealers and the illegal aliens pay. Everyone pays because everyone spends money. The rich will pay more because the rich will spend more. If you spend more, you pay more. If you spend less, you pay less.

Sodomites and Sodomettes are not gay, they're perverts.

There is nothing gay, happy, or joyful about being a pervert.

Life begins at conception. A little baby is no longer just another part of its mother’s tissue. At the moment of conception, a little baby is a little person who has its own unique DNA. Once that fertilized egg multiplies from one cell to two cells, it becomes a new person with a DNA that is unique to this world. A little baby has a God-given, inalienable right to life. At conception, the mother’s relationship to that new little person who is growing inside her body must change. A mother has a stewardship (management of another person’s property entrusted to their care) responsibility to protect that tiny, new life. It’s the same concept as the fiduciary relationship that your financial adviser has to you. If he acts irresponsibly … if he makes any decisions that are against your best interests, he can be prosecuted. God knew that new little person before He created the heavens and the earth.

Jeremiah 1:5
5. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;

1,000 Vietnams are equal to the 52 million innocent babies who have been murdered in the United States at the rate of over 1,500,000 every year for 37 years since the January 22, 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal.

Why does everyone who is pro-choice always choose death?

If the government cannot run the Post Office, DMV, Amtrak, Veteran’s Hospitals, Social Security, Medicare, and our educational system, why put them in charge of our health care?

If you think that health insurance is expensive now, just wait until it's free!

Universal Health Care means mandatory health care rationing.

There is nothing more expensive than a second rate air force.

Though the mills of God grind slowly;
Yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting,
With exactness grinds he all.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow









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