Charley Reese Quotes

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.

A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation's soul.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.

Thats what abortion is - killing innocent humans for money. Abortionists are government licensed hit men.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.'

Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.