George W. Bush quotes:

~~"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
—Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

~~"I understand small business growth. I was one."
—New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000

~~"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."
—Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000

~~Milton Friedman has shown us that when government attempts to substitute its own judgments for the judgments of free people, the results are usually disastrous. In contrast to the free market's invisible hand, which improves the lives of people, the government's invisible foot tramples on people's hopes and destroys their dreams.

--President George W. Bush in tribute to Milton Friedman

William H. Chamberlin

"One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of the personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves and seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized everything. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State and more avid for State handouts. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic and social system." - Historian William H. Chamberlin ["The Power to Destroy" in Essays on Liberty, vol.4, 1958]

"A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to
lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are
formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively
for benefits from outside." -- William Henry Chamberlin

Linda Chavez

“If we're willing to deny diplomas to seniors who can't demonstrate they've earned them, maybe we ought to deny paychecks to school administrators and teachers who aren't doing their jobs."
- Columnist Linda Chavez on new requirements that students must pass standardized test before they can graduate

Winston Churchill

"If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law." ~~Winston Churchill

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
---Winston Churchill

Carl Von Clausewitz

The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take
war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually
blunting our swords in the name of humanity.  Sooner or later someone will
come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

Michael Cloud

"Government central planning devastated the Soviet economy. Government central planning all but destroyed Soviet industry and agriculture. Government central planning is decimating education in Massachusetts."

Michael Cloud

Calvin Coolidge

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
-Calvin Coolidge

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
-- Calvin Coolidge

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means." --Calvin Coolidge

 "I want the people of America to be able to work less for the Government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom." - Calvin Coolidge
(Address accepting the presidential nomination, Aug. 14, 1924)

James Fenimore Cooper

“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.  It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.”-- James Fenimore Cooper

Ann Coulter

"It's well past time for [Leftism] to be declared a religion and banned from public schools. Allowing Christians to be one of many after-school groups induces hysteria not just because liberals hate religion. It's because the public school is their temple. Children must be taught to love Big Brother, welcoming him to take over our schools, our bank accounts, our property, even our toilet bowls." --Ann Coulter