Andrew Napolitano Quotes

#1. Archaeologists of the soul never return empty-handed.

Anais Nin

#2. It's hard for me to believe that World Trade Center building 7 came down by itself twenty years from now, people will look at 911 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us.

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#3. He just has to step away from the moment to see it. Which isn't surprising. Lots of parents will tell you that when they aren't fighting with their teenagers about homework or scraping up raisins their toddlers have expertly ground into the kitchen floor, they're quite happy, upon reflection.

Jennifer Senior

#4. If exercising the right to vote were truly effective, the government would not be so eager to promote it.

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#5. Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom ... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

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#6. All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President's first job - as Jefferson understood well - is to keep us free.

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#7. Delayed gratification is making a choice, constantly convincing yourself to hold back and pursuing immediate gain or profit.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.

Michael Demon Calce

#9. Assaults by fanatics on our safety... does not justify assaults by the government on our freedom!

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#10. I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

M. J. Hyland

#11. Unlike what happened after Pearl Harbor, however, the Bush administration would not order a "review of how they could have been so badly surprised" because the results would have shown "a colossal bureaucratic failure, combined with inattention and a lack of political will at the top.

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#12. But to be a connectworker, one must have an overall positive influence on people, and Victor has really made the switch.

Michele Jennae

#13. Something new prowled, something voracious and well-adapted to this environment. Something bad. Even the wood seemed to shiver with fear. And, no, trees do not make a sound when they fall in the forest with no one around to hear. But just before they fall, they scream.

Robert Dunbar

#14. Thanks to Progressives such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, we are now living under a system where the president is forced to step in to stop a regulatory agency from promulgating regulations that Congress refused to enact.

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#15. What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

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#16. Whenever we are attacked, people are willing to give up someone else's liberties for their own security.

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#17. The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

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#18. The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want.

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#19. Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

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#20. The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

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#21. The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states).

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#22. Those who put you in difficult times are enemies.
Those who forsook you in difficult times are acquaintances.
Those who stood by you in difficult times are friends.
Those who fought for you in difficult times are family.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. Alexander was silent. "Now you're really tiny," he said at last. "I'm not tiny," she returned. "You're just outsized." Blushing, she lowered her gaze.

Paullina Simons

#24. Without encryption, you and I wouldn't be able to do our banking online. We wouldn't be able to buy things online, because your credit cards - they've probably been ripped off anyway, but they would be ripped off left and right every day if there wasn't encryption.

Tim Cook

#25. Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

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#26. Both parties promote "changing Washington," but in reality they like Washington just the way it is: little gets done that they don't like, and none of our officials are truly held accountable.

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