Charley Reese

People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.

— Charley Reese

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

— Charley Reese

Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea…

— Charley Reese

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

— Charley Reese

Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't…

— Charley Reese

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient…

— Charley Reese

A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly…

— Charley Reese

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to…

— Charley Reese

[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.

— Charley Reese

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and…

— Charley Reese

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

— Charley Reese

There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's…

— Charley Reese

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we…

— Charley Reese

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

— Charley Reese

Given the low level of competence among politicians, every American should become a libertarian. The government that governs least is certainly the…

— Charley Reese

A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once…

— Charley Reese

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

— Charley Reese

The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American…

— Charley Reese

Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal…

— Charley Reese

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

— Charley Reese

Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A…

— Charley Reese

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

— Charley Reese

Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money.…

— Charley Reese

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

— Charley Reese

If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is…

— Charley Reese