Quotes to live by

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. – Winston Churchill

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. – Thomas Jefferson

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. -- Curtis LeMay
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process. – Ronald Reagan

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. –General William T. Sherman

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. -- George Washington

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Calvin Coolidge

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. – Milton Friedman

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abe Lincoln

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. - Teddy Roosevelt

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. - C. S. Lewis

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 central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy. If these villains could be put down, he holds, he would at once become rich, powerful and eminent. – H.L Mencken