True Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. Hon. Ron Paul, M.D.
Monthly Archives: January 2026
The laws which you [Congress
The laws which you [Congress] pass and which people like me [a character at the Treasury Dept.] enforce are supposed to serve the needs of the citizens, not the needs of the government. Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996
pass and which people like me [a … ]
If, as some suggest, capital punishment is legalized murder then jail is …
If, as some suggest, capital punishment is legalized murder then jail is legalized kidnapping. Airot Parker
Court.com, June 8, 2001
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[T]he government is not the owner of the citizen’s income and, therefore, cannot hold a blank check on that income. Ayn Rand
Government Financing in a Free Society, V.O.S. (1905-1982)
When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, …
When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1826.
Abandon, for starters, any hope of serious means-testing, the sane and …
Abandon, for starters, any hope of serious means-testing, the sane and attractive idea that minimum-wage workers and young families shouldn’t be taxed down to their marrow to provide medical coddling for the richest generation of retirees in the history of the solar system. Holman W. Jenkins Jr.
On Medicare ‘Reform’, July 9, 2003, Wall Street Journal.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of …
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet and writer
Genius is perseverance in disguise. Mike Newlin …
Genius is perseverance in disguise.
Mike Newlin
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the …
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy. John Quincy Adams
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat. Mark …
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)