Undeniable Truths

Consolidated Undeniable Truths

from previous lists by Rush Limbaugh

• Freedom is natural and liberty is God-given.
  
  
• America was founded on natural law; it's been inventing laws to justify itself ever since.
  
  
• Stupid laws create stupid people – it's an anti-evolutionary axiom that encourages the survival of the unfittest.
  
  
• The greatest threat to worldwide peace and prosperity is appeasement.
  
  
• The greatest threat to freedom in America is the bloc of left-wing extremists masquerading as Liberals.
  
  
• The only way that Liberals can win elections is by pretending that they're not Liberals.
  
  
• There's no double standard with Liberals because anyone who disagrees is simply wrong – wrong sex, wrong race, wrong religion, wrong everything.
  
  
• Liberals try to use judicial activism to obtain what they cannot attain openly at the ballot box.
  
  
• Evidence refutes Liberalism.
  
  
• Liberals measure compassion by caring – not by doing.
  
  
• Compassion is no substitute for justice.
  
  
• Peace is the absence of threats and the promise of justice.
  
  
• By standing as a beacon of liberty, the US is not imposing on any other nation.
  
  
• Peace does not mean the absence of war – nor the elimination of nuclear weapons.
  
  
• War is not obsolete – the US will again go to war.
  
  
• Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
  
  
• The aggressor sets the rules in any conflict.
  
  
• There is no such thing as war atrocities – war itself is an atrocity.
  
  
• To more and more Americans, a successful and victorious US is sinful – which is frightening and ominous.
  
  
• Crime prevention is simple: obey the law, and punish the guilty who do not.
  
  
• Life is unfair – which means that nothing and nobody will ever be equal.
  
  
• There will always be poor people – but that's not the fault of the rich.
  
  
• The profit motive is not an obscenity.
  
  
• There is no free lunch.
  
  
• The culture war is between those who produce and those who extort a stipend from those who produce.
  
  
• If you use the government to steal something from your neighbor for yourself, then you're still a criminal – just a petty one without the courage to hold your own gun.
  
  
• Welfare is welfare – corporate or family.
  
  
• Whenever someone says "it's not the money." then it's always the money.
  
  
• If you love what you do, then it's not work – even if somebody pays you to do it.
  
  
• There is no service that government can provide more inexpensively than you can provide it for yourself.
  
  
• You could afford to live without your government if it weren't for your government.
  
  
• No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
  
  
• No famine has ever occurred in a free-market economy.
  
  
• The most terrifying words that anyone can ever hear are: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."
  
  
• The Earth's ecosystem is not fragile – however, the persistence of frail humanity bent on wreck and ruin is dubious.
  
  
• Protest Movements in America, whether by accident or design, are either anti-establishment or pro-socialist – non-protestors have jobs.
  
  
• Feminism was invented by unattractive women to empower themselves.
  
  
• Abstinence prevents sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy every single time it's been tried.
  
  
• Abortion has consequences – for the person, for the family, for the culture, for the nation.
  
  
• Divorce has consequences – for the person, for the family, for the culture, for the nation.
  
  
• Words have meaning, and their meaning has consequences – for the person, for the family, for the culture, for the nation.
  
  
• Morality cannot be determined by individual choice.
  
  
• Just as the road to hell is paved with good intentions, so the law of unintended consequences prevents do-gooderism from improperly achieving its goal.
  
  
• There are many ways to avoid payback, but there's only one way to repay a debt – pay it.
  
  
• Character matters; and leadership is derived from character.
  
  
• Too many Americans have lost the ability to laugh at themselves – but they have no problem ridiculing others.
  
  
• Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.
  
  
• The wisdom and experience of seasoned citizens is the greatest untapped resource in America.

Undeniable Truths

by Rush Limbaugh [radio broadcast (18 Feb 1994)]

(All are equally truthful: the first is not more or less important than the last.)


• There is a distinct singular American culture – rugged individualism and self-reliance – which made America great.
  
  
• The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators.
  
  
• No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
  
  
• Evidence refutes liberalism.
  
  
• There is no such thing as a New Democrat.
  
  
• The Earth's eco-system is not fragile.
  
  
• Character matters; leadership decends from character.
  
  
• The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.
  
  
• Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
  
  
• The 1980s was not a decade of greed but a decade of prosperity; it was the longest period of peacetime growth in American history.
  
  
• Abstinence prevents sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy – every time it's tried.
  
  
• Condoms only work during the school year.
  
  
• Poverty is not the root (rut) cause of crime.
  
  
• There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
  
  
• If you commit a crime, you are guilty.
  
  
• Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.
  
  
• The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and Rush.
  
  
• I am not arrogant – it's hard to be modest when you're right.
  
  
• My first 35 Undeniable Truths are still undeniably true.
  
  
• There is a God.
  
  
• There is something wrong when critics say the problem with America is too much religion.
  
  
• Morality is not defined by individual choice.
  
  
• The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.
  
  
• Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
  
  
• Follow the money. When somebody says, "It's not the money," – it's always the money.
  
  
• Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.
  
  
• Using federal dollars as a measure, our cities have not been neglected, but poisoned with welfare dependency funds.
  
  
• Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.
  
  
• Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.
  
  
• Compassion is no substitute for justice.
  
  
• The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.
  
  
• The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
  
  
• You could afford your house without your government – if it weren't for your government.
  
  
• Words mean things.
  
  
• Too many Americans can't laugh at themselves anymore.

Undeniable Truths

by Rush Limbaugh [Sacramento "Union" (1988)]

• The greatest threat to humanity lies in the nuclear arsenal of the USSR.
  
  
• The greatest threat to humanity lies in the USSR.
  
  
• Peace does not mean the elimination of nuclear weapons.
  
  
• Peace does not mean the absence of war.
  
  
• War is not obsolete.
  
  
• Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
  
  
• There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons – use them.
  
  
• Peace cannot be achieved by developing an understanding with the Russian People.
  
  
• When Americans oppose America, it is not always courageous and sacred; it is sometimes dangerous.
  
  
• Communism kills.
  
  
• Neither the US, nor anyone else, imposes freedom on the peoples of other nations.
  
  
• Freedom is God given.
  
  
• In the USSR, peace means the absence of opposition.
  
  
• To free peoples, peace means the absence of threats and the presence of justice.
  
  
• The Peace Movement in the US, whether by accident or design, is pro-Communist.
  
  
• The collective knowledge and wisdom of seasoned citizens is the most valuable, yet untapped, resource our young-people have.
  
  
• The greatest football team in the history of civilization is the Pittsburgh Steelers of 1975-1980.
  
  
• There is no such thing as war atrocities.
  
  
• War itself is an atrocity.
  
  
• There is a God.
  
  
• Abortion is wrong.
  
  
• Morality is not defined, and cannot be defined, by individual choice.
  
  
• Evolution cannot explain Creation.
  
  
• Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.
  
  
• Love is the only human emotion that cannot be controlled.
  
  
• The only difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and previous Soviet leaders is that Gorbachev is alive.
  
  
• Soviet Leaders are just left-wing dictators.
  
  
• Abe Lincoln saved this nation.
  
  
• The L.A. Raiders will never be the team that they were when they called Oakland their home.
  
  
• The US will again go to war.
  
  
• To more and more people, a victorious US is a sinful US.
  
  
• This is frightening and ominous.
  
  
• There will always be poor people.
  
  
• This is not the fault of the rich.
  
  
• You should thank God for making you an American; and instead of feeling guilty about it, help spread our ideas worldwide.