The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.”
“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'”
“All adventure is now reactionary.”
“Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.”
“I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
“Was it possible that the emotion of love had somehow made me more susceptible to fear? Does the noble emotion of love make us start valuing our own lives and the lives of our loved ones more so tha...”
“Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself.”
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times re...”
“Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.”
“When justice is prioritized by any leader at any level then to give justice to the citizenry will always be at the back of the mind of such a leader.”
“The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nations virtues, with the nations value system, determine the true wealth of that nation”
“The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation’s virtues, with the nation’s value system, determine the true wealth of that nation”