"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."
- Anonymous

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
- Oscar Wilde

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an Anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
- Ronald Reagan

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

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

"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
- Winston Churchill

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
- Dr. Adrian Rogers

'The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists.'"
- Willi Schlamm

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
- Winston Churchill

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
- John Adams (1814)

"Democracy is the worst form of government; but better than other forms we know of (autocracy, anarchy)"
- Winston Churchil

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."
- Edward Langley

"It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself."
- Justice Casey Percell

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow

"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."
- G. Gordon Liddy

"Where morality is present, laws are unnecessary. Without morality, laws are unenforceable."
- Anonymous

"If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all."
- Jacob Hornberger (1995)

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
- Thomas B. Reed (1886)

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
- Thomas Jefferson

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Goethe

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
- H.L. Mencken