Our current [Social Security] system was essentially introduced by the chancellor of Germany, Prince Otto von Bismark, in 1889 — twenty years before the first Model-T rolled off the tracks. It does not incorporate anything we have learned with regard to markets and investments over the past one hundred years. And yet any suggestion that the system might be improved through modernization, choice, and privatization is met by Luddite-like opposition. Theodore Forstmann
From remarks delivered during the 1997 Shavano Institute for National Leadership
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an ‘equalizer.’ Egalite implies liberte. And always will. Let us hope our weapons are never needed – but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny… If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government N and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws. Edward Abbey
The Right to Arms, 1979
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill
I believe in libertarian principles but not in libertarian fetishes. In any context, the difference between principles and fetishes can be the difference between night and day. Thomas Sowell,
Dec. 4 2007
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free. Clarence Darrow
Legendary defense lawyer
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, ‘one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.’ Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)