quotes

This is a list of all of my favorite quotes. You may also be interested in a list of specifically political quotes.

  • The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
     - David Friedman
  • Test everything. Hold on to the good.
     - Paul, 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (Bible)
  • I am not protesting, I am simply speaking loudly through a megaphone.
     - Danny, The Love Police
  • The wages of sin is death. The wages of government is taxes (to death).
     - Calen Fretts
  • Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
     - Aristotle
  • I get to my God through Christ. Christ, to me, is a Man of peace. He is for peace, He is not for war. He doesn’t justify preemptive war. I strongly believe that there is a Christian doctrine of just war. And I believe this nation has drifted from that. No matter what the rationales are, we have drifted from that, and it’s very, very dangerous, and I see in many ways being unchristian. Christ is for love, and forgiveness, and turning the other cheek for peace. And to justify what we do in the name of Christianity I think is very dangerous, and not part of what Christianity is all about. Christ came here for spiritual reasons, not secular war and boundaries and geography. And yet, we are now dedicating so much of our aggressive activity in the name of God, but God, he is the Prince of Peace. That is what I see from my God and through Christ. I vote for peace.
     - Ron Paul, Presidential Debate
  • Patriotism does not require one to agree with everything that his country does and would actually promote analytical questioning in a quest to make the country the best it possibly can be.
     - Socrates
  • In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
     - George Orwell, 1984
  • If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?
     - Edward Bernays, Propaganda
  • In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.
     - Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to the American Defense Society (1919)

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