“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.” HatePoliticsFreedomCommonForeverHonestHonestyOfficeI HateFavorsCommon SenseDecencyPublic OfficeRunning For OfficeCommon Decency Author:H. L. Mencken
“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” PoliticsFreedomDemocracyHonestPoliticianUnthinkableBurglarsGood Politicians Author:H. L. Mencken
“Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest” LongFreedomHonestLifestylePeaceful Author:Russell Means
“It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.” FreedomDemocracyHonestMeritIgnored Author:Denis Fonvizin
“Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.” IfsMenCountryHandsFreedomHonestDesignBlessingSpeechPressesCursePatrioticFreedom Of SpeechFreedom Of The Press Author:William J. H. Boetcker
“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.” MenCountryEarthPainFightingFreedomRoomsHonest4th Of JulyHonest Man Author:Thomas Paine
“There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State.” MenFirstsChildrenEndsStatesAgeIndividualCommunityFreedomEffortDemocracyRiskHonestHonestyGainsPropertySlaveIndividualityProfitOld AgeEnterpriseInseparableRisk-takingPrivate Enterprise Author:Russell Cornell Leffingwell
“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.” WorldMayHas BeensAmericaFreedomLibertyPracticeHonestExampleRevolutionEuropePraiseGrantedTriumphantEpochCharterConsoling Book:James Madison's Source: James Madison's