Another pervasive — and dangerous — sign of the mushy thinking of our time are the flagrantly fraudulent phrases that pass muster in the media and in politics. None is more fraudulent than the word ‘asking’ in discussions of public policy issues.Liberals love to say things like, ‘We’re just asking everyone to pay their fair share.’ But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave.The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don’t pay. Thomas Sowell
Forbes July 1994,(1930- ) American writer, scholar and economist, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute,Stanford, California
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is …
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts. Eugene McCarthy
-1916
Puritanism-the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. H. L. …
Puritanism-the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. H. L. Mencken
The more the state plans the more difficult planning becomes for the …
The more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. F. A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom (1944),Nobel Prize Winner (1899-1992)
First gather your facts, then contort them at your leisure. Mark Twain …
First gather your facts, then contort them at your leisure.
Mark Twain
Mr. Hunt [talking about hate crimes
Mr. Hunt [talking about hate crimes] ostensibly states that the suffering of a member of an aggrieved class is more important than identical suffering that I might encounter because I don’t belong to a particular group he chooses to pity. This is a betrayal of the principles of equal protection the civil rights movement was founded on. Thomas Quilter
Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2003
ostensibly states that the suffering of … ]
The theories – the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislative …
The theories – the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislativebodies and with – by outcome, by decisions made by legislative bodies, ideas related to proportional voting as a general remedy, not in particular cases where thecircumstances make that a feasible idea… Al Gore
Giving a straight answer on ABC’s Nightline, after being asked about President Clinton’s withdrawal of Lani Guinier’s nomination to the EEOC.
There must be something wrong with this country when we pay professional …
There must be something wrong with this country when we pay professional athletes six figures, new attorneys working on Wall Street $60000, and we pay teachers what we do. — Janet Reno, early 1990s Lets look at why:1. There is a market for ball players and a partially nationalized market for teachers with little effective competition.2. There are less than 1000 ball players and millions of teachers.3. There is competition for the best in baseball.4. We have unions negotiating teachers salaries, but not attorney salaries.5. Why aren’t movie stars included there? Is it because that is to close to the home of the Reno supporters?What would be the solution she would advocate? A national board to limit athelete salaries? Attorney salaries? Janet Reno
Janet Reno, early 1990s
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave …
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering those nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. Ronald Wilson Reagan
address to the Nation (March 23, 1983)
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human …
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. John Adams
1798, American diplomat and 2nd President of the United States from 1797-1801 (1735-1826)