Favourite Quotes

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Democrats spent the first century of this country's existence refusing to treat black people like human beings, and the second refusing to treat them like adults.
Ann Coulter

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted."
Ann Coulter

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends…
Isabel Paterson

Never was so much expected by so many and paid for by so few.
Laurie Graham

Rock stars – is there anything they don’t know?
Homer Simpson

An ignorant man who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill.
Edmund Burke

In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin Franklin

You mean Maya Angelou is black?
Homer Simpson

Go ahead – make my day!
Det. Harry Callaghan and Ronald Reagan

No! No! No!
Mrs. Thatcher

Some chicken! Some neck!
Winston Churchill

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Barry Goldwater

I belong to a generation of men most of whom aren’t here any more. We all did the same thing for the same reason, no matter what we thought about politics. Well, that’s all over and done with, and we’re carrying on as best we can, as though nothing happened. But in fact several things happened, and one of them was this country suddenly got tired. She’s tired now. But the old girl’s got stamina, don’t you make any mistake about that, and it’s up to us ordinary people to keep things steady. Now, that’s your job. And just you remember it!
Noel Coward, script for “This Happy Breed”

The three laws of politics:
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left wing.
3. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
Robert Conquest

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
Thomas Sowell

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Thomas Sowell

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies—socialist politics and modernist art—have at least one feature in common: they are both forms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.
Roger Scruton

This is what we believe!
Margaret Thatcher brandishing a book by Friedrich Hayek

What the German and Italian who have learned the lesson above all want is protection against the monster state – not grandiose schemes for organisation on a colossal scale, but opportunity peacefully and in freedom to build up once more his own little world.
Friedrich Hayek

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson

The purpose of society should not be to transform men into something better, but to stop them cutting each other’s throats.
Toby Young

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it in to the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
Grover Norquist

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.
Roger Scruton

"C***"
Jame's Delingpole on Ted Heath

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton

“The moment a man falls in love or has a family, he gets a desire for property. We’ll destroy that desire; we’ll resort to drunkenness, slander, denunciations; we shall resort to unheard-of depravities; we shall smother every genius in infancy. We shall reduce everything to one common denominator. Full equality.”
Dostoevsky, The Devils

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Jung

The sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced ... to a single principle.
De Tocqueville

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programmes on their intentions rather than their results
Milton Friedman

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.
Walter Williams

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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats.
P.J. O’Rourke

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P.J. O’Rourke

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Adam Smith

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Thomas Mann

The only legitimate reason for the state to exists is to protect pre-political rights (liberty, life, etc) and institutions (marriage, the family, etc) - it has no other justifiable purpose.
If the state fails to protect these things, its existence is unwarranted. When it attacks these things, it is lawless.
E.F. Bartlam

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience.
Mark R. Levin

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Ronald Reagan

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
Ronald Reagan

To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.
Michael Oakeshott

By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world’s population and defending it for most of the rest.
Margaret Thatcher


Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?”

Oleg Atbashian

Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan


As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul II

They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams