Another great actor named Charlton Heston would agree.
Charlton Heston during the 1963 March on Washington
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, & Charlton Heston
"Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients."
-October 27, 1964
"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing."
-October 27, 1964
"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.' "
-October 27, 1964
"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. "
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."
"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."
"Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980's were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair."
-RNC Annual Gala, Feb. 3, 1994
(Of course, according to Kerry, 2001-2003 was the worst period since the Great Depression. The hypsurdity never ends.)
Another great actor named Charlton Heston would agree.
Charlton Heston during the 1963 March on Washington
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, & Charlton Heston