Jesse Helms Quotes

Jesse Helms Quotes

Senator Jesse Helms died on the Fourth of July 2008 at age 86 in his home state of North Carolina.

Here are some of his Famous Quotes

America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.
- Jesse Helms

If Jesus wanted us to use the metric system, he would have had 10 disciples.
- Jesse Helms

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
- Jesse Helms

Well, there is no joy in Mudville tonight. The mighty ultraliberal establishment, and the liberal politicians and editors and commentators and columnists, have struck out again.
- Jesse Helms after defeating black Democrat Harvey Gantt for Senate in 1990.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
- Jesse Helms

The destruction of this country can be pinpointed in terms of its beginnings to the time that our political leadership turned to socialism. They didn’t call it socialism, of course. It was given deceptive names and adorned with fancy slogans. We heard about New Deals, and Fair Deals and New Frontiers and the Great Society.
— Jesse Helms

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn’t agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
- Jesse Helms

Compromise, hell! That’s what has happened to us all down the line — and that’s the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
- Jesse Helms writing in 1959 on compromise in politics.

I have tried at every point to seek God’s wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
- Jesse Helms

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
- Jesse Helms

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn’t mad at me about something.
- Jesse Helms

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.
- Jesse Helms

I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.
- Jesse Helms

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