Fred Barnes Quotes

Let's do to Hoover what he does to others.

The day of reckoning came, and that day was the Terror. The heirs of those who toiled made their account with the heirs of those who played.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

Power over men is itself a satisfaction, besides providing opportunity to better one's circumstances with a minimum of exertion. Hence, the lust for power increases with its enjoyment and restraint is added to restraint. The government instituted to prevent men from transgressing one another's equal rights thus tends to become a transgressor of the rights of all. The injustice is far more oppressive than anyone man can do unto another, and the interests of freedom can be served only by restraint of government.

That king who through folly rashly oppresses his kingdom, (will), together with his relatives, ere long be deprived of his life and of his kingdom. As the lives of living creatures are destroyed by tormenting their bodies, even so the lives of kings are destroyed by their oppressing their kingdoms

Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

When you tell a fellow to go to hell, you’d better make sure that you can get him there.

I have no enemies, father. I have had them all shot.

Those who have by an unrighteous power made merchandise of the earth, giving all to some, & none to others, declare themselves tyranicall & usurping.

The tyranny we impose on others, we will eventually impose on ourselves.

… vengeance is seldom justice.

The government’s prosecution of me was intent not on serving justice but on meeting out retaliation, reprisal and retribution for the purpose of relentlessly punishing a whistleblower and warning potential whistlebowers so that you can not only lose your job but also your very freedom.

You may succeed in your policy and insure your own damnation by your victory. The men whose manhood you have broken will loath you and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. The children will be taught to curse you. The infant being molded in the womb will have breathed into its starved body the vitality of hate. It is not they—it is you who are the blind Samsons pulling down the pillars of the social order.

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.