“When it comes to [education], you have to be a great deal more careful than you do in other spheres about preservation of the right of individual liberty. . . If you give the bureaucrats the children, you might as well give them everything else as well.” J. Gresham Machen
“Perhaps Colin Kaepernick and the ad executives at Nike should pay a visit to Walter Reed or Arlington Cemetery. They might have an opportunity to learn what it means to ‘sacrifice everything.’” —Catherine Smith, the mother of a severely wounded OIF veteran
“If the spirit of business adventure is killed, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.” Andrew Mellon
“If you think aficionados of a ‘living constitution’, want to bring you flexibility, think again.” Antonin Scalia
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill
“American’s give up their Constitutional right to limit government when they ignore the second clause of Article V.” Michael Kapic
“It is not true that the function of law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our wills, our education, our opinions, our work, our trade, our talents, or our pleasures. The function of law is to protect the free exercise of these rights, and to prevent any person from interfering with the free exercise of these same rights by any other person.” Fredrick Bastiat
“I got my start by giving myself a start.” Madam C. J. Walker
“There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” Booker T. Washington
“I’ll have those Niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” LBJ on his Great Society constituents.
“Racism is not dead, but it’s on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as “racists.” Thomas Sowell
“The rights of individuals ought to be the primary object of all government.” Mercy Otis Warren, Revolutionary critic, patriot and anti-Federalist.
“Politics is the only field of endeavor where people with such good intentions can do so much damage to society. I don’t care about your intentions. EVERYONE has good intentions when it comes to public policy. I care about your results. I care about your evidence. I care about the facts. I care about a proper definition of rights and a proper understanding of what government’s role should be with respect to those rights.” Dustin Romney
“Capital is always available; it’s just a matter of what the price, terms, and conditions are.” Robert H. Smith former CEO of Security Pacific Bank
“It is simply absurd to argue that increasing unemployment will stop inflation.” Robert Mundell
“You cannot step into the same river twice.” Heraclitus
“The investment banker is ‘a producer’ of money and credit, “the capitalist par excellence.” Joseph Schumpeter
“The effect of keeping interest rates artificially low, in fact, is eventually the same as that of keeping any other price below the natural market. It increases demand and reduces supply.” Henry Hazlitt