Guardian of the Republic Quotes

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. —SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL”
― Allen West, Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom

“Matthew 16:26, “For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”
― Allen West, Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom

“Booker T. Washington said, “Those who think there is no opportunity for them to live grandly, yea, heroically, no matter how lowly their calling, no matter how humble their surroundings, make a common but very serious error.”
― Allen West, Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom

“Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you’re ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don’t understand that we also dream. —PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. —BARONESS MARGARET THATCHER”
― Allen West, Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom

“Sweat saves blood.”
― Allen West, Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom

“know a thing or two about war, and I can tell you there are only two ways to get your enemies off the battlefield: you kill them or imprison them—and that doesn’t mean reading them Miranda rights and getting them all lawyered up. Terrorists do not deserve our constitutional rights, and to pretend that granting those rights gets us respect from our enemies is the most asinine concept I have ever heard.”
― Allen West, Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result being that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
― Allen West, Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom

“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.”
― Allen West, Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom

“Our country is now at risk of forgetting the value of limited government. We are told bigger government is necessary for the general welfare of our citizens. Instead of sticking to its primary constitutional tasks of promoting the general welfare and providing for the common defense, we have a government that is focused on providing welfare, and who cares about defense? As the temperature in the pot heats up, we have gradually moved from securing the endorsed inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to demanding a “guarantee of happiness.” But to guarantee happiness, the government’s powers must be unlimited.”
― Allen West, Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom