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Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Commencement Speech Given at Notre Dame University (22 May 1977)
- Fear
The Declaration of Independence is the grandest, the bravest, and the profoundest political document that was ever signed by the representatives of a people.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899Centennial Oration (4 July 1876)
- America
As for libertarian, I’ve been one all my life, a radical one. You might use the term “philosophical anarchist” or “autarchist” about me, but “libertarian” is easier to define and fits well enough.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Statement to Judith Merril (1975), as quoted in William H. Patterson Jr., Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Vol. 2 (2014)
- Liberty
England is a capitalist democracy. Germany is a socialist people’s state.
Joseph Goebbels1897–1945“Englands Schuld,” Illustrierter Beobachter, Sondernummer, p. 14. The article is not dated, but is from the early months of the war, likely late fall of 1939
- Democracy
What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.
Václav Havel1936–2011International Herald Tribune (29 October 1991)
- Truth & Lies
In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let’s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Election victory speech (November 2008)
- America
The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924First Inaugural Address (4 March 1913)
This civil rights program about which you have heard so much is a farce and a sham; an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I fought it in the Congress.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973Speech in Austin, Texas (22 May 1948), as quoted in Quotations from Chairman LBJ (1968)
- Race
A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Letter to Charles F. Gardner (1924)
- Race
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like all other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926What’s the matter with Chicago? (1902)
- Clever Jabs
- Economics
The Republican and Democratic parties are alike capitalist parties — differing only in being committed to different sets of capitalist interests.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed… and we will deserve it.
Lindsey Graham1955–2026Twitter post (3 May 2016)
If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.
Lindsey Graham1955–2026Washington Press Club Foundation Congressional Dinner (25 February 2016)
- Clever Jabs
You know how to make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to Hell.
Lindsey Graham1955–2026“Graham: Trump is a ‘race-baiting, xenophobic’ bigot (2015)” CNN (December 8, 2015)
- Clever Jabs
I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.
Lee Kuan Yew1923–2015Quoted in R. S. Milne and Diane K. Mauzy, Singapore: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew (1990), p. 85
- Government