"When you consider the hell on earth the Roman Catholic Church has instigated or inspired—

"Artists have always been the dreamers who turn unseen ideas into sights and songs. Whether we follow beautiful dreams or nightmares is up to us.

"Nude heroic sculpture must pose quite a threat, to be dismissed by one of the Ten Commandments. ...

"My old mom, lovely but a bit deluded, put all the lights out for Earth Hour. Dad tripped down the stairs and sprained his ankle, with neither God nor the Green Party there to administer to his pain. There’s a moral in this, about stupidity."

ANZAC DAY ADDRESS 2008
 
Your Worship, Honoured Guests, Fellow Veterans and Citizens,
     
Late last year I attended a rally in Queen Street as a protest against the imminent passing of the Electoral Finance Act, and the ramifications of this legislation against freedom of speech in New Zealand.

"I often find it interesting that many 'grow to like' this music [rap and metal].

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

—Ronald Reagan

“We never cease to be amazed by the inability of the left to feel shame and its lack of reverence for America and those who defend its freedoms, including the right to be stupid.

“It seems there is scarcely a serious bad actor on the planet with whom Jimmy Carter has not met.

"Now what, you may ask, does any of this have to do with individual liberty? Am I implying that musical atrocities like Slipknot should be banned?

After a tie in the votes between Glenn and Sandi, the judges have conferred and deliberated, aaaaand the winner is...

"As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I’ve realized that firearms are not the only issue.

"The President of the United States, in the name of the Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor, posthumously, to Master At Arms Second Class, Sea, Air and Land, Michael A. Monsoor, United States Navy. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as Automatic Weapons Gunner for Naval Special Warfare Task Group Arabian Peninsula, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM on 29 September 2006.

"The Founders' intent in framing the Second Amendment is perfectly clear and undeniable.

"I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up."

"No, but I trod in some once."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."

Samuel Adams

"Look at the accepted choice of words for the ravings of Jeremiah Wright: controversial, incendiary, inflammatory.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Deputy Secretary England, thanks for the introduction. One boss may not be here, but the other one is. (Laughter.) I appreciate your kind words. I'm pleased to be back here with the men and women of the Defense Department.

On this day in 2003, the United States began Operation Iraqi Freedom. As the campaign unfolded, tens and thousands of our troops poured across the Iraqi border to liberate the Iraqi people and remove a regime that threatened free nations.

Rather than break ties with his demagogic, anti-American pastor, Barack Obama used a speech on race to excuse his behavior and sweep the controversy under the rug. Passing the buck is not very presidential.

"As disgusting as [Jeremiah] Wright and his lunacy are, it is even more disgusting the extent to which mainstream media allow Barack Hussein Obama's apologists to spew their specious and false defense of the indefensible, unchallenged, all over the air waves.

"The Koran's core theme is about the duty of all Muslims to fight non-Muslims; an Islamic Mein Kampf, in which fight means war, jihad.

"Her philosophy demands both a total honesty of belief to fact—and a total honesty of belief to action. Neither mindless conformity nor arbitrary contrariety, either with or against Objectivism itself, achieves the level of honesty that is a prerequisite for Objectivism.

"The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas."

—Leonard Peikoff

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all."

—Jean Meslier (Fr.)

"I think she [Wafa Sultan] is the only one among the great ones ... Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi Ali ... who has directly taken on the enemy in his own language and in his lair, a few times now.