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Top 30 Charley Reese Quotes (2025 Update)

Charley Reese Quote: “Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.”

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

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Charley Reese Quote: “Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.”

2. “Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Don’t live beyond your means. Don’t buy more than you can pay for. Don’t expect to get rich quick. And don’t confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.”

3. “Don’t live beyond your means. Don’t buy more than you can pay for. Don’t expect to get rich quick. And don’t confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it’s bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.”

4. “Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it’s bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.”

5. “The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.”

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

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Charley Reese Quote: “Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.”

7. “Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “There’s no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one’s liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.”

8. “There’s no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one’s liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute – not much to recommend them.”

9. “Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute – not much to recommend them.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common...”

10. “Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common...”

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Charley Reese Quote: “I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.”

11. “I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”

12. “If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.”

13. “If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation’s soul.”

14. “A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation’s soul.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won’t reach us.”

15. “American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won’t reach us.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.”

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

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Charley Reese Quote: “Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.”

17. “Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.”

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

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Charley Reese Quote: “Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.”

19. “Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn’t carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.”

20. “Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn’t carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.”

21. “It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, ‘If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain’t going to solve it.’”

22. “Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, ‘If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain’t going to solve it.’”

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Charley Reese Quote: “When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.”

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

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Charley Reese Quote: “Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.”

24. “Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation’s, we’d all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.”

25. “If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation’s, we’d all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today.”

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

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Charley Reese Quote: “A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.”

27. “A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.”

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

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Charley Reese Quote: “Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.”

29. “Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Here’s your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute – often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.”

30. “Here’s your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute – often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.”

31. “The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.”

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Charley Reese Quote: “Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.”

32. “Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.”

— Charley Reese

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