Wake Up America Quotes

“Instead of challenging the status quo and trusting in your own abilities, they would rather you trust in government.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“what Jefferson says is that all people are not equal in character, ability, or work ethic, and therefore the ideal system of government keeps the proverbial playing field as level as possible so that each person can live life, enjoy liberty, and experience happiness unencumbered by an oppressive government.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“The idea of “merit”—so fundamental to the American system of government and culture—is based on a simple formula: People should succeed based on their own skills, talents, and efforts, not because it makes somebody “feel good” or because of some arbitrary societal or governmental standard.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“The old iron days have gone, the days when the weakling died as the penalty of inability to hold his own in the rough warfare against his surroundings. We live in softer times.… We need then the iron qualities that must go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT, COLORADO SPRINGS, AUGUST 2, 1901”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“the Left would love our nation to surrender to the false ideas that as a person: •  You are not special. •  You are not better than anyone else, at anything. •  You do not have to earn recognition. •  Everyone should receive equal treatment, equal benefits, and equal pay, regardless of their talents and work ethic—or the results they produce.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“under this Creator’s benevolent gaze, all human beings are of equal value—not equal character, strengths, and weaknesses. As children of the Creator, all should have the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” but we live our lives, exercise our liberty, and pursue our happiness according to our own strengths and weaknesses, talents and foibles, and good and bad tendencies.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Consider Thomas Jefferson’s most famous line from the Declaration of Independence, and how abysmally wrong the Left is in its interpretation of it: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The key point here is that all people are created equal—not that all people are equal.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Trying to get ahead—to be exceptional, to seek merit—is nothing to be ashamed of (and if you think about how this country was founded and built, it’s pretty horrifying that this even has to be stated). Achievement deserves rewards, but you have to actually work for your trophy. Just because liberals can’t recognize this simple fact doesn’t make it any less true.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Money can’t buy talent, in sports or anything else. Talent only succeeds when matched with an iron will—pain, sweat, and deprivation in the pursuit of a singular goal.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Only those who have inherited wealth have the luxury of feeling ashamed of it. To those of us who know what it’s like to not have enough, there is no shame in it at all. Money is freedom. It’s having more control over your own life. In its rawest, purest state, it’s simply one thing: power.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“What liberals and their cult of “fairness” don’t seem to realize is how unfair this attitude is to those who are exceptional (and how destructive it is to a vibrant society). Imagine Mozart as a child attending a precious, liberal preschool today. While his teachers would almost certainly recognize his talent, they would as often as not try to squelch it, at least when other kids are around, lest they trouble the fragile self-image of his classmates.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“(have you ever wondered what a better world we’d live in if liberals had more “-asms” and fewer “-isms” in their lives?).”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“People and nations do have different, inherent talents, skills, abilities—strengths and weaknesses—and should be allowed to rise or fall based on them. Not everyone can be a rock star, pro athlete, or business tycoon. There’s nothing wrong with people who aren’t exceptional, but to act as if they are the same as those who are exceptional does a major disservice to both.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“According to the Nobel Committee (the group of ultra-liberals in Norway who pick the prize winners), Obama was awarded the 2009 prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”8 Really? After less than a year in office? This was an award modeled after Seinfeld—it truly was about nothing, and meant nothing, at least in reality. Even the Obama administration had the good grace to be embarrassed by the award. Besides giving an abysmally naïve “speech to the Muslim world” in Cairo and talking about things like nuclear nonproliferation and climate change, the man had done squat in terms of forwarding world peace in the months he had been in office. He said so himself: “To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize.”9 Though the administration was not quite embarrassed enough to show the good grace of declining the honor in favor of someone who actually deserved it. But here’s why this award matters—because it fits so perfectly with Leftist philosophy. Obama was a global rock star who had replaced the “evil” George W. Bush. He was also the first African American to lead the United States. And the Nobel Committee wanted to do what felt good. They wanted in on the action. Essentially, this once-prestigious organization decided to act like squealing teenagers at a Beatles concert; they got caught up in “Obamamania” and just couldn’t help themselves. It felt good, so it felt right. So they did it. And then this Nobel Laureate went on to spend eight years undermining world peace by kneecapping the one thing that keeps a lid on this bubbling cauldron of a world: the U.S. military. He also invaded and destabilized Libya, broke his promises on Syria, has been downright dismissive to Israel, kowtowed to China, and let Russian President Vladimir Putin walk all over him (and therefore us). This man has done more to destabilize the world than perhaps any American President, ever. And guess what? Even the Nobel Committee who scrambled to award him the prize came to regret their decision! The Nobel Institute’s director at the time told the media in September 2015 that they “thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn’t have this effect,” and “even many of Obama’s supporters thought that the prize was a mistake.”10 Oops.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“MERIT noun mer·it \'mer-әt, 'me-rәt\ (1.) the quality of being good, important, or useful: value or worth —Merriam-Webster’s definition (1.) a false, bigoted, and usually racist notion that some people are better at certain tasks than others; praising the few ahead of the needs of the collective —A Leftist’s definition”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Maya the Chihuahua wound up dead in 2014. Maya was a beloved member of Wilbur Cerate’s family on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. One Saturday in October when Cerate came home from work, according to local TV station WAVY, Maya was gone. Cerate checked his security cameras, which had captured video of two women in a PETA van backing into the driveway, snatching Maya off the porch and driving off. Three days later, two women from PETA returned to the home and explained that Maya had been killed. They brought a fruit basket.27, 28 Perhaps it was the tiniest bit of solace for Cerate’s little daughter that her beloved Maya did not die a painful death, other than the terror of being snatched up by strangers and hauled to some foreign facility that, at best, must have seemed like a veterinarian’s office. Many of the other animals who die at the hands of bird-brained animal-rights activists suffer horrible deaths.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“PETA itself has been exposed for killing, literally, tens of thousands of animals in its care. Dating back to 1998, according to records provided by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Center for Consumer Freedom, the animal rights group kills hundreds of household pets every year in facilities it ironically calls “animal shelters.” In 2014, PETA took in 2,631 animals in Virginia. Thirty-nine were adopted. A shocking 2,324 were killed. The rest were transferred to other facilities. Between 1998 and 2014, according to the records, PETA killed 33,514 household pets.25 In one Norfolk, Virginia, branch of PETA, documents disclosed the organization killed almost all of its animals—that’s according to a report in the reliably liberal Huffington Post, which was accompanied by a graphic entitled “For An Animal Rights Organization, PETA Kills A Lot Of Animals.” No kidding.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Paul Watson, an early member (and alleged founder) of the Left-wing environmental extremist group Greenpeace. “I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms.… Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“AIDS is not a malediction, but the welcome and natural remedy to reduce the population of the planet,” said the so-called environmentalist David Foreman, founder of a group called Earth First! “Should human beings disappear, I surely wouldn’t mind.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Philosopher John Hardwig argues that humanity is a drain on our natural resources and that humans get to a certain age where they have a “duty to die.” He contends “there may be a fairly common responsibility to end one’s life in the absence of any terminal illness … a duty to die when one would prefer to live.… To have reached the age of, say 75 or 80 years without being ready to die is itself a moral failing, the sign of a life out of touch with life’s basic realities … A duty to die is more likely when you have already lived a rich and full life. You have already had a full share of the good things life offers.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), for instance, said that “Humans have grown like a cancer. We’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.”12 According to Newkirk, humans do not have an inherent right to life. “I don’t believe human beings have the ‘right to life,’” she once said. “That’s a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Western civilization has moved inexorably away from the Dark Ages and in the general direction of modernity. A lot of good things happened over that time. Some of those good things have been the result of inventions and scientific advancements. Yet just as many have been the result of evolving thought about humans and how we should interact with one another. This movement led away from cruel fiefdoms and total subjugation beneath kings and toward the notion that humans should be able to determine their own lives. The invention of the movable press allowed the mass production of books and pamphlets, which, in turn, led to greater enlightenment and debate. It forced people to confront other people with different ideas, without (always) trying to lop their heads off. Print led to the various revolutions, including the American Revolution, which put the finest point yet on the notion that humans are capable of self-determination and have been granted rights by God Himself to govern themselves. I haven’t seen a cat accomplish any of this.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“We’ve come to a crazy place: groups that bemoan the slaughter of cows, but have no problem with the annual slaughter of human embryos or viable fetuses; clueless elitists who give their fortunes to their cats upon their deaths, instead of to charities that help orphans and veterans and, you know, human beings.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26)”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“DOMINION noun do-min-ion / dә'minyәn/ (1.) sovereignty; control “man’s attempt to establish dominion over nature” —Merriam-Webster’s definition (1.) the dangerous belief that human beings matter more than plants or animals, when in fact animals have as many rights as people —A Leftist’s definition”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Whether they admit it or not, the Left’s obsessive drive for “fairness” for the collective is completely dependent on decreasing freedom for the individual. There simply is no other way to pursue the kind of society they want than tyranny. They may say they respect individual rights, but the policies they support suggest quite the opposite.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“At their core, Leftists—liberals, progressives, whatever—are collectivists. They believe that individuals should conform to the will of the whole, purportedly for the good of all. Yet as we’ve seen with depressing regularity in recent years, this drive toward collectivism is leading to a kind of thought tyranny we haven’t dealt with in the country since the Red Scare days of the 1950s. All in the name of “fairness” and “equality,” of course.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“A liberal front group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) actually sent a letter to the head of the FCC asking for Fox’s broadcast licenses to be revoked.16 Do we have any other examples of the Obama administration using a supposedly neutral government agency to go after its critics and political opponents? That’s right: President Obama’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has clearly gone after groups that worked against the administration’s agenda—and individuals, too! I myself got an audit in 2011, which I’m sure had nothing at all to do with my frequent statements on television opposing President Obama’s reelection.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“don’t expect much to change anytime soon. These former gatekeepers of opinion live in a mind-numbing bubble in which they still think they set public attitudes. In the digital age, though, that is no longer the case. These types will keep chugging along until the writing is on the wall—or the pink slips have finally fully engulfed America’s newsrooms.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever