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Showing posts with label Famous Quotes on Patriotism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous Quotes on Patriotism. Show all posts

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Famous Patriotic Quotes

“The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”
Thomas Jefferson

If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
Thomas Sowell


"To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering."
Barry Morris Goldwater

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too."
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), British writer

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
-Thomas Sowell

"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses."
- Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
- Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

"As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom."
- Pythagorus

"Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery."
- Jameson Green



A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Socrates

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
- Friedrich August von Hayek

History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
- Milton Friedman (b. 1912), American economist



It is glorious to get rich
- Deng Xiaoping

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into laws.
- Thomas Sowell