Charlton Heston Quotes

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• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Political, Wish, Pockets

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

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Cold, Fingers

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• There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Men, Hands

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

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Behinds

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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

  Charlton Heston

  Way, Fortune, Persistent

  "Fictional character: Perry". "Alaska", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

  Charlton Heston

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  "Appreciation: Charlton Heston" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. April 6, 2008.

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• If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

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  Thinking, Race, Doe

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

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  Wisdom, Sometimes, Silent

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• I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

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  Gun, America, Second Amendment

  Speech to the National Press Club, September 14, 1997.

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• You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.

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  Thinking, Social, Personal Freedom

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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

  Charlton Heston

  Land, Political, Plague

  Charlton Heston (2000). “To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin - every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands.

  Charlton Heston

  Hands, Monsters, Camels

  "Have Gun, Will Travel" By Margot Hornblower, www.cnn.com. July 6, 1998.

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• I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is.

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  Country, War, Believe

  "Winning the Cultural War: A Challenge from a Friend". Speech at the Harvard Law School Forum, www.khouse.org. July 01, 1999.

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• You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

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  Inspirational, Perfect, Honest

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can’t be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America’s campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who’re supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?

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  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Why Johnny can't disobey" by Sarah J. McCarthy, www.wnd.com. March 20, 1999.

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• 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!

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Hands, Want

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• I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

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  Giving Up, Giving, Tenacity

  "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". "CNN News" with Fredricka Whitfield, transcripts.cnn.com. August 9, 2002.

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• Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.

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  Men, Law, Grace

  "Moses Film Role Awes Portrayer". "Los Angeles Times" Newspaper, October 28, 1956.

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• As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.

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  Religious, Army, Men

  "Fictional character: Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon". "Khartoum", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

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  Luck, Energy, Needs

  "Charlton Heston: Great sport with a line in heroic role models". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, June 17, 1990.

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• [President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete's sake.

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  Coffee, Gun, Years

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• I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.

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  Dog, Four, Safe

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• An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

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  Kindness, Inspiration, Epic

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• 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.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Men, Hands

  "Meet the Press" Interview, May 18, 1997.

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• As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.

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  War, Gun, Issues

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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