The predictable result has been more deaths on the road. It makes …

The predictable result has been more deaths on the road. It makes sense. Smaller cars sustain more damage in wrecks than bigger ones do. The Competitive Enterprise Institute found between 2,600 and 4,500 traffic deaths a year can be attributed to the CAFE [fuel economy] standards. If the standard for cars is pushed to 40 miles per gallon, the death toll could jump to 5,700 a year. Investor’s Business Daily
June 26, 2001

The attorney general needs to follow the Constitution, whether the Congress authorizes …

The attorney general needs to follow the Constitution, whether the Congress authorizes him to or not. And then we will have the rule of law, and civil liberties upheld, and security as well. . . . The bottom line is the government needs to preserve civil liberty. That’s why we have this country. Judge Andrew Napolitano
Fox News, summer 2003

This is, perhaps, the most fundamental lesson of our study: ordinary people, …

This is, perhaps, the most fundamental lesson of our study: ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority. A variety of inhibitions against disobeying authority come into play and successfully keep the person in his place. Dr. Stanley Milgram
Obedience to Authority, 1974 (excerpts from his psychological experiments where human subjects apply lethal electrical shocks to other humans, because ‘they’re only following orders.’ )

Another pervasive — and dangerous — sign of the mushy thinking of our time …

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