Gary Hansen > Gary's Quotes

“Some people can’t live with themselves if somebody has to die for freedom. They can’t rectify that. They would give up freedom to avoid the killings if they had to”
― Gary Hansen, The Second Revolution

“But let us be sure of something. We are not sheep. This government is ours, and it is meant to serve our best interests. And if it has grown into something it shouldn't be, and shucked off the rules of the Constitution it was based on, then it is our responsibility to rein it back in.”
― Gary Hansen, The Second Revolution

“If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might be considered a gross perversion of the Constitution.”
― Gary Hansen, The Second Revolution

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
― Edward Abbey

“Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.”
― Michael Crichton, Next

“He’s the only one of you that’s ever tried to sneak up on a bad guy, and that was a million beers ago”
― Gary Hansen, Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River

“I believe that the United States government was set up with the help of God, and it is the closest government in the world to how God would have men govern themselves.”
― Gary Hansen, The Second Revolution

“Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“Freedom is not free! The Almighty offers these gifts contingent upon our willingness to turn to Him as a nation. It is a covenant relationship. That covenant is in force today, and the rules still apply.”
― Timothy Ballard, The Lincoln Hypothesis: A Modern-day Abolitionist Investigates the Possible Connection Between Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and Abraham Lincoln

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.”
― James Madison