Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving! Ronald Reagan 1986
Things have changed in America, and not for the better. We see hatred and division in the land as we become less and less a tolerant, God-fearing Judeo-Christian nation. We have turned away from God. Ronald Reagan understood the value of faith for indviduals and for the continued success of the country. "And let us ever be mindful of the faith and spiritual values that have made our Nation great and that alone can keep us great." John Mueller - Armored Column Please Share with Friends and … [Read more...]
James Madison – TYRANNY IN GOVERNMENT
But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. James MADISON, Federalist Papers #51 It … [Read more...]
Theodore Roosevelt and Hyphenated Americans
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling … [Read more...]
20 Best Quotes From Milton Friedman
Yesterday would have been the 103rd birthday of Milton Friedman, who was one of the most brilliant economists of the last century. In honor of Friedman, here are his 20 best quotes. 20) “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” 19) “Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like … [Read more...]