#political

It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#ideology

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#state

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." (1962) ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#political-rights #protest #revolution #violence #violence

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#political-philosophy #politics #liberty

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #political-philosophy #liberty

As government expands, liberty contracts. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#political-philosophy #politics #scope-of-government #liberty

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master. ↗

— George Washington

#liberty #political-philosophy #scope-of-government #liberty

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#political #profiteering #treason #military

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#fact

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. ↗

— William F. Buckley

#diversity #political-philosophy #democracy