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May 19, 2025
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If free speech is a threat to your government, then your government is a threat to your country”

"If free speech is a threat to your government, (then) your government is a threat to your country" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "If free speech is a threat to…

May 20, 2025
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If free speech is a threat to your government… your government is a threat to your country”

"If free speech is a threat to your government, (then) your government is a threat to your country" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "If free speech is a threat to…

September 2, 2015
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to slaughter”

"If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter" is a George Washington (1732-1799) quotation that became frequently used in the…

June 30, 2011
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them”

"If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone/everybody will want them" is a saying that's been cited in print since at least June 1994. The origin of the saying…

September 11, 2021
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If gay marriage is wrong, then why did we have four fathers?”

"Forefathers" shouldn't be confused with "four fathers," but there are jokes. "If gay marriage is wrong, then why did we have four fathers?" was posted on Twitter…

March 4, 2024
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If genitals don’t define gender, how does removing them affirm it?”

"If genitals don't define gender, how does removing them affirm it?" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "Imagine thinking genitalia doesn't indicate…

August 21, 2018
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If Gladstone should fall into the Thames, that would be a misfortune…” (political joke)

A joke about the difference between an accident (or mishap or misfortune) and a calamity (or catastrophe or misfortune) appears to have been first told in France and was published in the the Leeds…

October 17, 2024
Food/DrinkGovernment/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If God didn’t make it, don’t take it”

"If nature didn't make it, don't take it" is a health saying that has beenprinted on many images. The saying is usually attributed to Alfredo Darrington Bowman (1933-2016), also…

April 16, 2025
Government/Law/Military/Religion /HealthWork/Businesses

“If going to space for 3 minutes makes you an astronaut, then I’m a gynecologist”

Blue Origin NS-31 was a sub-orbital spaceflight on April 14, 2025. It lasted only about 15 minutes, but the crew members were called "astronauts." This was posted on X/Twitter by Jeremy…

April 16, 2025
Government/Law/Military/Religion /HealthWork/Businesses

“If going to space for 3 minutes makes you an astronaut, then I’m a urologist”

Blue Origin NS-31 was a sub-orbital spaceflight on April 14, 2025. It lasted only about 15 minutes, but the crew members were called "astronauts." This was posted on X/Twitter by Jeremy…

April 20, 2020
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If government can suspend your rights anytime it deems something a crisis, you don’t have rights”

The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic resulted in, essentially, medical martial law. Many people were locked down in their homes. by order of state governors. "If the government can suspend your…

February 10, 2024
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If government can’t fix potholes, how can it fix the planet?”

"Statism is the belief that a group of people who can't fix potholes can fix an entire planet" is an anti-government saying that has been pritned on several images. "STATISM IS…

October 27, 2020
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If government is the answer, it was a stupid question”

"If government is the answer, it was a stupid question" is an anti-government saying that has been printed on many images. Authorship is unknown. "If more government is the answer,…

May 27, 2022
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If guns cause crime, do cameras cause child porn?”

"If guns cause crime, do cameras cause child porn?" is a saying that has been printed on an image. "If guns cause crime then video cameras cause pornography" was posted on the…

May 27, 2022
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If guns cause crime, then cameras cause pornography”

"If guns cause crime, do cameras cause child porn?" is a saying that has been printed on an image. "If guns cause crime then video cameras cause pornography" was posted on the…

June 14, 2022
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson”

"If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson" is a pro-gun saying that has been printed on many images. "Do guns cause murder? Do matches cause arson?" was printed in the The…

June 4, 2022
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?”

"If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?" and "If guns kill people, then pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk and spoons make people fat" are pro-gun sayings that…

July 21, 2014
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If guns kill people, how does anyone get out of a gun show alive?”

"Guns don't kill people -- people kill people" is a famous pro-gun (pro-Second Amendment) saying. "If guns kill people, how does anyone get out of a gun show alive?" is a…

June 4, 2022
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If guns kill people, then pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk and spoons make people fat”

"If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?" and "If guns kill people, then pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk and spoons make people fat" are pro-gun sayings that…

February 15, 2021
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If I agree, it’s free speech. If I disagree, it’s hate speech”

"If I agree, it's free speech. If I disagree, it's hate speech" is a saying that has been printed on an image. "Free speech is only free if the left agrees with it. If they…

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