Other Quotes & Stuff to Read

WPA Interview of 74 yr. old Samuel Mobley of Blackstock:

"The frantic assertions and demonstrative [ebulitions?] in regard to State's rights are less proclaimed than they were forty years ago."

Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions, 1798

Transcript of Mr. Jefferson's draft of the Kentucky Resolutions, with important comments on states' rights and the limitation of powers delegated to the U.S. govt.

Selected Quotes from the Thomas Jefferson Papers

[quotations selected by Library of Congress staff]

Mark Twain

"Take that noble passion, love of country, patriotism. A man who loves peace and dreads pain, leaves his pleasant home and his weeping family and marches out to manfully expose himself to hunger, cold, wounds, and death." (in What is Man)

 

"A man is never anything but what his outside influences have made him." (in What is Man)

 

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

Thomas Sowell

"The essence of bigotry is claiming for yourself the rights that you would deny to others."

In 1849, Frederick Douglas said:

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress."

Jesse Helms

"Compromise, hell!  That's what happened to us all down the line — and that's the very cause of our woes.  If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bolgona to be bartered a slice at a time?" — 1959

Charlton Heston

Heston said about political correctness, "It's just tyranny with manners."  He also said, "I wish for you the courage to be unpopular."

Alan Greenspan

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.... Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden" confiscation of wealth.... [Gold] stands as a protector of property rights. (1966)

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