Notable Quotes

Below are a collection of quotes from some of the great political minds of history, from our Founding Fathers all the way up through the modern day.

Quotes are not only an excellent source of inspiration, but also a powerful tool for examining the world around us and thinking about the present through the wisdom and observations of the past.

After all . . . "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it."
George Santayana

Founding Fathers

"Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is [sic] taken to bring it to light."
George Washington

"If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."
Thomas Jefferson

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."
John Adams

"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
James Madison

"Where there is no law, there is no liberty."
Benjamin Rush

"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."
Thomas Jefferson

"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."
Andrew Jackson

"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
Benjamin Franklin

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson

"America belongs to 'We the People'. It does not belong to Congress. It doesn't belong to special interest groups. It does not belong to the courts. It belongs to 'We the People'..."
John Jay

"if it be asked, what is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, an inviolable respect for the Constitution and laws."
Alexander Hamilton

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty."
Patrick Henry

"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine

"No People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved."
Samuel Adams

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson

Recent

"We're churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work."
Mike Rowe, "Dirty Jobs"

"Dems have officially declared war on America. It's no longer Republicans vs Democrats. It's America vs Communism. And that's a battle America must win."
Unknown

"Keeping vulnerable people dependent on the government and imprisoned by their afflictions is not compassionate; it is ultimately cruel and destructive."
Newt Gingrich

Others

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
George Orwell

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

"A Lie doesn't become Truth, Wrong doesn't become Right and Evil doesn't become Good just because it's accepted by a Majority."
Booker T. Washington

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Margaret Thatcher

"if you're not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart.
If you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain."
Winston Churchill

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue the equal sharing of misery..."
Winston Churchill

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.
Josef Stalin, Communist Tyrant & Mass Murderer

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
Ronald Reagan

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy

"Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness."
Abraham Lincoln

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government IS the problem."
Ronald Reagan

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."
Albert Einstein

"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people."
Napoleon

"We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William Arthur Ward

"A wise man can change his mind. A fool never will."
Japanese Proverb

"You only grow old when you run out of new things to do"
Unknown

"The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
Ronald Reagan

"Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins."
John Locke

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
Ronald Reagan