There is a recognition of the equality of rights among citizens in the pursuit of the ordinary avocations of life, and a declaration that all grants of exclusive privileges, in contravention of this equality, are against common right, and void. Mr. Justice Stephen Field
Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age, by Paul Kens. University Press of Kansas, 1997.
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Social Security, excluding Medicare, consumes 23 percent of the federal budget. Social …
Social Security, excluding Medicare, consumes 23 percent of the federal budget. Social security is a program that takes money from those who work [and save] and gives it to those who donÃt.
Reason, April 1993, p 6
We have to understand you can fight the war (on terrorism) and …
We have to understand you can fight the war (on terrorism) and lose everything if you have no civil liberties left when you get through fighting the war. Royce Lamberth
Reagan appointed U.S. District Court Judge in Washington, June 23, 2007
Kill reverence and you’ve killed the hero in man. Ayn Rand …
Kill reverence and you’ve killed the hero in man.
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, 1943. (1905-1982)
The Democrat party today as a union of socialists, fascists, and communist. In short, anti liberty statist authoritarians.
The Democrat party today as a union of socialists, fascists, and communist. In short anti liberty statist authoritarians, embracing censorship, cancel culture, anti-rule of law, and pro-chaos.
The Democrat party is the anti-truth, anti-honesty, anti-integrity party, but they are the pro power, pro-hate, pro-division (so pro-racism, pro-sexism etc) party.
Dividing people based on immutable characteristics is inherently evil and that is the modus operandi of today’s authoritarians.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. …
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881
Gun registration is not enough. Janet Reno Former Attorney General, December 10, …
Gun registration is not enough.
Janet Reno
Former Attorney General, December 10, 1993
Our current [Social Security
Our current [Social Security] system was essentially introduced by the chancellor of Germany, Prince Otto von Bismark, in 1889 — twenty years before the first Model-T rolled off the tracks. It does not incorporate anything we have learned with regard to markets and investments over the past one hundred years. And yet any suggestion that the system might be improved through modernization, choice, and privatization is met by Luddite-like opposition. Theodore Forstmann
From remarks delivered during the 1997 Shavano Institute for National Leadership
system was essentially introduced by the chancellor of … ]
People sometimes ask me, Are you trying to make your audience think? …
People sometimes ask me, ‘Are you trying to make your audience think?’ The answer is no…. that would be the kiss of death. But what I want them to know is that I’M thinking. George Carlin
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[L]ike everyplace else, talent went were the money was.
Tom Clancy
The Bear and the Dragon, 2000