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Tag: Lyn Nofziger

(1924-2006) American journalist, political consultant, author, Press Secretary for President Reagan

Favoring limits on freedom

As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 4, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories cultureTags Lyn Nofziger

Freedom vs. security

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain’t.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 10, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories libertyTags Lyn Nofziger

These things I believe

These things I believe:
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Author Greg RavenPosted on April 8, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Lyn Nofziger

The drift toward socialism

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 28, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories socialismTags Lyn Nofziger

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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