Arms in the hands of citizens [may] be used at individual discretion..in private self-defense… John Adams
John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of the Government of the USA, 471 (1788) American diplomat and 2nd President of the United States from 1797-1801 (1735-1826)
be used at individual discretion….. ]
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. P.J. O’Rourke
1993 (1947-2022 )
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. William Allen White
October 24, 1940
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn Rand
Man’s Rights, The Virtue of Selfishness
Biologists explain how organisms adapt to their physical environment, but ideologues also adapt to their social environment. The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.The academic world is the natural habitat of half-baked ideas, except for those fields in which there are decisive tests, such as science, mathematics, engineering, medicine – and athletics. In all these fields there comes a time when you must either put up or shut up. Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economist and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, Forbes September 8, 1997
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
(1694-1778)
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. Ron Paul
Congressman Ron Paul, 1987 (R-Texas)
Why is it that whenever a corporation fires workers it is never speculated that the workers might have deserved it? Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh on down sizing
If socialism ever earns a final epitaph, it will be this: ‘Here lies a contrivance engineered by know-it-alls and busybodies who broke eggs with abandon but never, ever created an omelet.’ Lawrence W. Reed
economist, in The Freeman