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Charlton Heston Quotes: Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.
         

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.


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Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.



Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.



Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.



One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.



You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.



Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'



To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!



Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.



Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.



In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.





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