Government exists to protect us from each other. Where Government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves Ronald Reagan
New York Times, April 13, 1980
Monthly Archives: March 2021
But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country …
But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country was not born in the resources of the earth, though they be plentiful, but in the men that took its measure. For that reminder is everywhere – in the cities, towns, farms, roads, factories, homes, hospitals, schools that spread everyone over that wilderness.We can remind ourselves that for all our social discord we yet remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators. Being so, we are the marvel and mystery of the world, for that enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth. Wall Street Journal
Part of several editorials published annually on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving since 1961 in the Wall Street Journal
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine found to be 79 percent effective: study
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine found to be 79 percent effective: study
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I’m convinced the jails are full of people who don’t …
I’m convinced the jails are full of people who don’t need to be there. Prisons should be mainly for the truly bad guys, who commit violent crimes. Barry Goldwater
U.S. Senator, Oct 23, 1994 Chicago Tribune (1909-1998)
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and …
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. Edmund Burke
letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777.ÃThe Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 2, p. 199 (1899).
This country is too great, is population too numerous, its interests too …
This country is too great, is population too numerous, its interests too vast and complicated…to be governed as to the great range of our daily affairs, from one central power in Washington….[D]o not let us in our anxiety for efficiency cast away, break down, reject, those limits which save us to the control of our homes, of our own domestic affairs, and of our own local governments. For there, in the last analysis must be formed the character of free, independent, liberty-loving citizens. Elihu Root
U.S. Senator Root , Nobel laureate (Investor’s Business Daily, July 27, 1999) (1845-1937)
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[S]he had never believed in fighting fair. Either you fought, or you did not, and it was never a game. Fairness was for people standing safely to one side, talking while others bled. Robert Jordan
Cadsuane, Crossroads of Twilight, Wheel of Time
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… the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at pg. 2, col. 2
The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. …
The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin, circa 1916
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. …
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970), English mathematician and philosopher