“South Carolinians could care less who I work with,” he said. “Most people in South Carolina are looking for their elected officials to improve their lives, get the unemployment situation turned around and help our environment to get cleaner.”
Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as "the masses." This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, "the full power of centralized government"—this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments' programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
PATRICK HENRY
The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A republic...if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, predicated upon the glory of man, and the corresponding duty of society, is that the rights of the citizens are to be protected with every power and resource of the State, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document, of the name American. Beyond this, the principle that it is the obligation of the people to rise and overthrow government which fails in these respects. But above all, the call to duty, the pledge of fortune and life, nobility of character through nobility of action: this is Americanism.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
The time for choosing is coming. Whose side are you on?
Send Lindsey, his buddy McCain, Scozzafava, and the rest of the RINOs to the back of the unemployment line!
Don't tread on me!
God save the Republic!