Berkshire County Republican Association
6th Floor
75 S Church St
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Tel/Fax: 413-448-8100
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
— Ronald Reagan
Thursday, August 21, 2008
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
— Abraham Lincoln
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
— Abraham Lincoln
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
— John F. Kennedy
"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it."
— Lao-Tzu
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
— Ronald Reagan
"...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp."
— Ronald Reagan
"No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together."
— Richard Nixon
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
— Ronald Reagan
"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
— Ronald Reagan
"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."
— Ronald Reagan
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
— Milton Friedman
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
— Benjamin Franklin
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
— Abraham Lincoln
"The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it."
— George Gilder
"If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked."
— George Gilder
"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind."
— George Gilder
"No man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is part of an unending plan. "
— President Calvin Coolidge
"Political tyranny on the one hand and economic freedom on the other ---- they cannot coexist."
— Dr. Milton Friedman
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
— Thomas Jefferson
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