56 Quotes by Charley Reese

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.'

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

The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.

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

Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

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.

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

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

A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.