Great Throughts Treasury

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Phyllis Schlafly, fully Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly

American Women’s Rights Activist, Constitutional Lawyer who founded Eagle Forum

"The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brain-washing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world - the Executive Branch of the United States Government."

"Supporting the Equal Rights Amendment is like trying to kill a fly with a sledge hammer. You don’t kill the fly, but you end up breaking the furniture... We cannot reduce women to equality. Equality is a step down for most women."

"Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached."

"And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's."

"After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans."

"As our government takes democracy to unlikely places all over the world, how about a decent respect for self-government at home! "

"Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship."

"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."

"Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress."

"The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography."

"The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom."

"The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year."

"People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't."

"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights."

"The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values."

"What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother… When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?"

"The real answer is to stop it at the point where they get a job. If they can't verify themselves as being in the country legally, they don't get jobs. Then, you dry up the jobs for them. "

"We will not stand activist judges who legislate from the bench, who remake our culture. ... We will not tolerate judges who change the rules of our written Constitution. You, the American people, play a big part on how to deal with these out-of-control judges. ... The answer is in your hands."

"Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs."

"Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance."

"Do you ever wonder why the internet is so polluted with pornography? The Supreme Court just reminded us why: it blocks every attempt by Congress to regulate the pornographers. "

"ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else."

"Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money."

"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature."

"How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?"

"History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security."

"Minors are an intended audience for the highly profitable sex industry. Impressionable teenagers are easily persuaded to have abortions, and homosexual clubs in high school are designed for the young."

"Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions."

"Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it."

"All of these feminists, said women were dying to go into combat, which, of course, is ridiculous."

"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship."

"By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape."

"But why aren't parents the ones best able to decide what is in the best interest of the child?"

"Bush made it clear that his mission doesn't include trying to be popular in Europe, where many oppose our ideals."

"Children who are not taught phonics grow up to be adults who can never be hired for anything other than a minimum-wage job. They will never be assimilated into our economy and achieve the American dream."

"Congress ought to talk about impeachment."

"Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue."

"Do you really think that serving on the Texas Lottery Commission helps the resume of a Supreme Court nominee?"

"Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help."

"Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth."

"Fundamentalist Islam is entirely incompatible with American values. Nothing could be clearer. But so is fundamentalist Christianity, or any fundamentalism, no matter the faith. This is the lesson we should?ve learned on 9/11 but somehow, we continue to apologize for homegrown extremism."

"God did send us a real man in Jesse Helms."

"If you cannot discriminate on account of sex, it is perfectly obvious that if two men show up at the city clerk and want a marriage license, and the clerk says, ?I?m not giving it to you because you are men,? she had discriminated on account of sex."

"I guess the next cause is to keep Obama from taking this country into socialism ? which means the government running everything, which means having everybody believe that the government can solve their problems. And of course I grew up during the Depression. We didn't have any of the handouts and we grew up to be the greatest generation."

"Having stable, nuclear families like that is the way we became a great country, and it?s absolutely essential, if you want to have limited government ? which conservatives all say they believe in."

"Gay activist groups are already starting to instruct same-sex couples to file joint income tax returns, so the Bush Administration should establish procedures right now in order that the bureaucracy will know how to handle the paperwork."

"In 1972 the feminist movement made the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment their major goal, and they had every advantage. They had three Presidents, Nixon, Ford and Carter, [behind them]. They had all the governors. They had 99% of the media. They had organizations, they had Hollywood stars, movie stars, and they felt I was responsible for not letting them get what they wanted. So they were mad about it.??"

"It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU."

"In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession."

"It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists."