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 The USI College Republicans are proud to tear up the liberal argument, one idea at a time. You can quote us on that. Famous Conservatives\Historical Americans\Past Presidents Quotes Ronald Reagan "Any government powerful enough to give you everything you want, is powerful enough to take from you everything you have." - Ronald Reagan "Government is not the solution to our problems, Government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan "You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it to the wind." - Ronald Reagan "We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free." - Ronald Reagan "[N]o arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women." - Ronald Reagan "Freedom is not something to be secured in any one moment in time. We must struggle to preserve it every day. And freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan "America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally." - Ronald Reagan "[T]here are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams." - Ronald Reagan "Man is not free unless government is limited ... as government expands, liberty contracts." - Ronald Reagan "Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence." - Ronald Reagan Abraham Lincoln "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." - Abraham Lincoln "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong." - Abraham Lincoln "You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence." - Abraham Lincoln "In all that people can do for themselves, the government ought not to interfere." - Abraham Lincoln Miscellaneous "Republicans have never mastered the knack, as Democrats seem to have, of winking while knifing an opponent's jugular." - James W. Naughton "Clinton is most comfortable when thinking about little things - school uniforms, the minimum wage and, above all, himself." - George Will "The Democratic party is like a man riding backward in a carriage. It never sees a thing until it has gone by." - Benjamin F. Butler "If liberals can't beat you, if they're losing on the issues, they do one of two things. They either call you a bigot or a racist. Or they sue you." - J.C. Watts "Democrats believe kids shouldn't pray in school, especially not during moments of silence because silence can lead to thinking and thinking causes people to become Republicans." - P.J. O'Rourke "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." - Margaret Thatcher "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard "There's nothing in the middle of the road but dead armadillos and some yellow lines." - Former Texas Senator, John Hightower "Tell the American people never to lose their guns. As long as they keep their guns in their hands, what's happened here will never happen there." - A dying Chinese Citizen shot in Beijing "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too." - Voltaire "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." - William O. Douglas "For those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know." - Veteran of Khe Sanh, Vietnam "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Louis Brandeis "True Liberalism is found not in striving to spread bureaucracy but in striving to set bounds to it." - Herbert Hoover "Civilization declines in relation to the increase in Bureaucracy." - Victor Yannacone "The ... most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power." - John Stuart Mill "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke "Government should only do for you what you can't do for yourself." - Jesse Ventura "While it is true that a lack of law gives way to anarchy, it is equally true that an excess of law is a sure path to revolution." - Unknown "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus "When a government becomes powerful, it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurper which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance for votes with which to perpetuate itself." - Cicero "When government takes responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves." - George Pataki "Liberals need not bother with logical persusasion as long as they can prey on people's sense of weakness" --Ann Coulter "It is important for liberals to demean the people they oppose to reinforce their sense of class superiority" --Ann Coulter "The media will tolerate any disreputable behavior in order to win. Principle is nothing to liberals. Winning is everything." --Anonymous Founding Fathers Quotes George Washington "Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness." --George Washington "Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations." --George Washington "We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions." --George Washington "A people ... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything." --George Washington "Much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to, so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass. The Great Governor of the Universe has led us too long and too far...to forsake us in the midst of it....We may, now and then, get bewildered; but I hope and trust that there is good sense and virtue enough left to recover the right path." --George Washington "...I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home." --George Washington "The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations." --George Washington "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." --George Washington "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." --George Washington "If we desire to 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 ready for War." --George Washington "Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of a brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or to die." --George Washington "To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington "And now, Almighty Father, if it is Thy holy will that we shall obtain a place and name among the nations of the earth, grant that we may be enabled to show our gratitude for Thy goodness by our endeavors to fear and obey Thee. Bless us with thy wisdom in our counsels, success in battle, and let our victories be tempered with humanity. Endow, also, our enemies with enlightened minds, that they become sensible of their injustice, and willing to restore our liberty and peace. Grant the petition of Thy servant, for the sake of whom Thou hast called Thy beloved Son; nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done." --George Washington "We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it." --George Washington "'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world." --George Washington Thomas Jefferson "...[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established...are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering." --Thomas Jefferson "To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson "If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." - Thomas Jefferson "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." --Thomas Jefferson "Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." --Thomas Jefferson "[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore...never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market." --Thomas Jefferson "A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable." --Thomas Jefferson "A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society." --Thomas Jefferson "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." --Thomas Jefferson "No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson "It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power [the judiciary] is independent of the nation." --Thomas Jefferson "Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them...But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature and executive also, in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch" - Thomas Jefferson "I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty." --Thomas Jefferson "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." --Thomas Jefferson "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." --Thomas Jefferson "I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing." --Thomas Jefferson "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." --Thomas Jefferson "The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." --Thomas Jefferson "On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas Jefferson "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." - Thomas Jefferson "One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson "When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." - Thomas Jefferson "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson "The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of the wolves." - Thomas Jefferson "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." - Thomas Jefferson John Adams "National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --John Adams "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate for the governing of any other." --John Adams James Madison "A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts." --James Madison "It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object." --James Madison "America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat." --James Madison "What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite." --James Madison "We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." --James Madison "Religion, or the duty we owe our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the magistrate, unless under color of religion any man disturb the peace, the happiness, or safety of society, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forebearance, love and charity toward each other." --James Madison "(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation... (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." --James Madison Alexander Hamilton "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton "Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence" --Alexander Hamilton Benjamin Franklin "It is a great mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." --Benjamin Franklin "The way to be safe is never to be secure." --Benjamin Franklin "Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech." --Benjamin Franklin "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin George Mason "Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens." --George Mason "As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins, by national calamities." --George Mason "The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth." --George Mason "To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them..." -- George Mason "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." --George Mason John Quincy Adams "Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." --John Quincy Adams "All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse." -- John Quincy Adams "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -- John Quincy Adams "To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs." -- John Quincy Adams "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government whith the principles of Christianity. From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct." -- John Quincy Adams "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." -- John Quincy Adams "So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society." -- John Quincy Adams "I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year." -- John Quincy Adams "The Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth [and] laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity." -- John Quincy Adams "I speak as a man of the world to men of the world and I say to you, search the scriptures, the Bible is the book of all others to be read at all ages and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day and never to be intermitted unless by some overruling necessity." -- John Quincy Adams "The pretence of an absolute, irresistible, despotic power, existing in every government somewhere, is incompatible with the first principle of natural right. Take for example the right to life. The moment an infant is born, it has a right to the life which it has received from the Creator . . . no human being, no combination of human beings, has the power, I say not the physical, but the moral power, to take a life not so forfeited [by commission of a crime], unless in self-defense or by the laws of war." --John Quincy Adams "Duty is ours; results are God's. The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue." --John Quincy Adams Thomas Paine "A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation." --Thomas Paine "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." --Thomas Paine "If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." --Thomas Paine "Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." --Thomas Paine "But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." --Thomas Paine "Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?" - Thomas Paine Patrick Henry "To erect and concentrate and perpetuate a large monied interest ... must in the course of human events produce one or other of two evils, the prostration of agriculture at the feet of commerce, or a change in the present form of federal government, fatal to the existence of American liberty." --Patrick Henry "Is life so sweet, or peace so dear, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!" --Patrick Henry It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." --Patrick Henry "This that brought on the war which finally separated the two countries, gave independence to ours. Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people make of the blessings, which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others." --Patrick Henry "The Bible is worth all books which have ever been printed." --Patrick Henry "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined...The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun. --Patrick Henry "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry Samuel Adams "The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." --Samuel Adams "If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation." --Samuel Adams "If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security." --Samuel Adams "Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security." --Samuel Adams "The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought." --Samuel Adams "Go on, then, in your generous enterprise with gratitude to Heaven for past success, and confidence of it in the future. For my own part, I ask no greater blessing than to share with you the common danger and common glory ... that these American States may never cease to be free and independent." --Samuel Adams "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --Samuel Adams "In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator." --Samuel Adams "A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader." --Samuel Adams "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks." --Samuel Adams "Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty." --Samuel Adams "Truth loves an appeal to the common sense of mankind." --Samuel Adams "The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams John Witherspoon "A Republic must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty...." --John Witherspoon "There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage." --John Witherspoon Daniel Webster "The contest, for ages, has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." --Daniel Webster "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens." --Daniel Webster |
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