“If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.”

— Cardinal Richelieu

“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”

— Russell Baker

“[T]he whole Marxian worldview is … a cruel attempt to return humans to a world that never was …

“[T]he left’s monumental blunder is to suppose that politics is a saving truth rather than a necessary evil, and that political power is a force for good rather than a battering ram that all too easily demolishes the fragile structures of social cooperation.”

— Christopher Chantrill

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

— Theodore Dalrymple [Anthony Malcolm Daniels]

“I can conceive of no better service … than boldly exposing the weakness, liabilities, and infinite corruptions of democracy.”

— Walt Whitman

“The primary purpose of the 10 Amendments that form the Bill of Rights is to protect the natural rights of the individual from an encroaching federal government function. The only way someone would not know this is if they have not read them … it is preposterous to think that the founders crafted nine of the 10 Amendments in the Bill of Rights to protect the individual, but expressly forbade that protection in the Second.”

— Brent Smith

“[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.”

— William Branch Giles

“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”

— Davy Crockett

“The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong.”

— L. A. Powe, Jr.

“There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”

— Karl Marx