Time for a Turning Point Quotes

“I am writing this book as a young man who quite deliberately has chosen to commit my still early life to fighting to restore, perhaps finish building, an America that was envisioned by our Founding Fathers.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“Language control and political correctness have become the modern-day crossbow for Team Left and they are wielding their weaponry without conscience.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“I can’t help thinking of the famous words shouted by General La Rochejaquelein fighting against the first French Revolution: “Friends, if I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“Our liberty is once again under attack, only this time from an insidious infestation of people who want us to lay down our liberty at the feet of some ill-defined, always corrosive, “greater good.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“I’m only in my early 20s and I am assuming, perhaps naïvely, that I will live an actuarially normal life. I have more than 50 years remaining. This is going to be a long game.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“Evidence of this reached the level of full satire in December of 2015 when filmmaker Ami Horowitz went on the campus of Yale University and asked students if they would sign a petition to repeal the First Amendment. The video, which is available on YouTube (another product of the free market), shows students enthusiastically wanting to sign and demonstrates just how Orwellian modern-day America has become.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“When you cut through it, political correctness is nothing more than self-censorship. It is forcing people to voluntarily stop behaving or speaking in certain ways. The driver for this becomes two base emotions: guilt and fear. Political correctness causes people to self-censor because they feel guilty about what they are about to say or do and they are afraid that they will “lose” something if they say or do it. The emotions of guilt and fear are such powerful drivers of behavior that people will stop themselves without even asking the question, “Who am I actually offending?”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“We have been tirelessly fighting against the well-oiled machinery of “Team Left” and we have been taking them on aggressively at every turn. We fight them with their own tactics and we fight them with new ones they haven’t before seen. Mostly what we are trying to do is to move away from the apologies and counterpunches commonly associated with Team Right and hit preemptively and hit hard.”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” —EDMUND BURKE”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” —AYN RAND”
― Charlie Kirk, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations