Compliance Quotes

Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

Accountability begins with transparency.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.”

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Let me live and I will do all you wish.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Accountability goes hand in hand with reform.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

We don't make the rules. We just play by them.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.