If a country can’t save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.
I went to rehab for alcoholism in wine country, just to keep my options open.
The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn’t be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
What we need is a strong defense, but right now there is zero chance of an invasion by another country and right now we have more firepower than all other countries put together.
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let’s just get rid of all the drug laws.
I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we’re fretting day in and day and night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.
Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.
Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.
Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
It’s a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It’s a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it’s totally out of control.
They ask me if I’m going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.
Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity. There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come from countries with different legal structures and are not willing to behave in the way we expect American citizens to behave.