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“Remember that the government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” Barry Goldwater
About Me
- Jonathan Matthew Gilbert
- Gay, southern, 20-something living in Manhattan.
A Few of My Favorite Quotes
- “You can’t test courage cautiously.” Annie Dillard
- “The world doesn’t simply need what we have; it needs what we are.” Edith Stein
- “To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.” Barry Goldwater
- “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” Margaret Thatcher
- “What’s the virtue of a proportional response?” Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing
- “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” Theodore Roosevelt
- “Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.” Alexander Hamilton
- “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” Edward Abbey
- “Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain
- “I will be judged by my God when I go to meet Him, and so will all those who disagree with me.” Geraldine Ferraro
- “There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.” Ayn Rand
- “You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.” Barry Goldwater
- “Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.” Theodore Roosevelt
- “No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.” Margaret Thatcher
- “Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).” Ayn Rand
- “We came out of the cave and we looked over the hill and we saw fire. And we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the West and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what's next. We were meant to be explorers!” Aaron Sorkin, The Farnsworth Invention
- “The rights that we have under the Constitution covers anything we want to do, as long as it’s not harmful. I can't see any way in the world that being a gay can cause damage to somebody else.” Barry Goldwater
- “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
- “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” Margaret Thatcher
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