Saul Alinsky -

 They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Nietzsche -

 They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Margaret Thatcher -

 We have harboured those who hated us, tolerated those who threatened us and indulged those who weakened us.

Rowan Atkinson -

To criticise a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous but to criticise their religion, that is a right. Indeed, a duty, in my view.

The concept that certain ideas can be protected by law from criticism or ridicule is deeply damaging to intellectual discourse.

If you cannot criticise or ridicule an idea, then you cannot properly evaluate it. And if you cannot properly evaluate an idea, then you are not truly free to think about it.

That is why laws that protect religious beliefs from insult or ridicule are not just misguided, they are positively oppressive

Mark Steyn -

 Our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people’s intolerance, which is intolerable. And, unlikely as it sounds, this has now become the highest, most rarefied form of multiculturalism. So you’re nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists.

Thomas Jefferson -

 A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

Donald Rumsfeld -

 Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -

Totalitarianism demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.

Christopher Hitchens -

 Islamophobia… A word created by Fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons.

G.K. Chesterton -

 The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

Plato -

 One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Ayn Rand -

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - 

When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors -

When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you -

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - 

 You may know that your society is doomed.

Leon Uris "The Haj" -

 This is the way it is with Arabs,” Ibrahim said.

“First comes my brother and I against our father; then my father and I and my brother against our cousins; then our cousins and we against the stranger.

That is the way it has always been with us. Me against my brother; my brother and me against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.”

George Orwell -

 The truth is that to many people, calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which "we," the clever ones, are going to impose on "them," the Lower Orders.

Goebbels -

 If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Ronald Coase -

 If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.

Julian Simon -

 Simon, the economist who was legendarily skeptical about environmental doom, once posed a question at an environmental forum: “How many people here believe that the earth is increasingly polluted and that our natural resources are being exhausted?” Almost every hand shot up. He then said, “Is there any evidence that could dissuade you?” There was no response, so he asked again, “Is there any evidence I could give you—anything at all—that would lead you to reconsider these assumptions?” Again, no response. Simon concluded, “Well, excuse me. I’m not dressed for church.”

President Herbert Hoover -

 When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. There is no such thing as a no-man’s land between honesty and dishonesty. Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitiveness to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

Bryan Caplan -

 But in a strange sense, both gun control and prohibition grow out of softness. A system with the moral courage to harshly, swiftly, and surely punish violence would have little need of gun control. A system with the moral courage to harshly, swiftly, and surely punish abusers for stealing, trespassing, vandalizing, and defiling would have little need of prohibition. In both cases, we haphazardly punish millions of innocents because we refuse to decisively punish thousands of clear-cut criminals.

Thomas Sowell -

 Most people who read the Communist Manifesto have no idea it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nonetheless spoke boldly in the name of the workers.