Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of government],those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, pervertedit into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
Observe that any social movement which begins by redistributing income,ends up by distributing sacrifices. –Ayn Rand
Most of the presidential candidates’ economic packages involve ‘tax breaks,’which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides notto take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates aretrying to buy your votes with your own money.–Dave Barry (1992)
Small men seeking great wealth or power have too often and too long turnedeven the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
[Taxation is legal plunder] if the law benefits one citizen at theexpense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do withoutcommitting a crime. –Frederic Bastiat
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain – and sincelabor is pain in itself – it follows that man will resort to plunderwhenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly.And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.It is evident, then, that the proper law (government) is to use thepower of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunderinstead of work. All the measures of the law should protect propertyand punish plunder. –Frederic Bastiat
In our America, most people still believed in the power of a better tomorrow. So together, we got the government off the backs of the American people. Wecreated millions of new jobs for Americans at all income levels. We cut taxesand freed the people from the shackles of too much government. As a result,the economy burst loose in the longest peacetime expansion ever. We broughtAmerica back — bigger and better than ever.– Ronald Reagan (1986), in Growth, Opportunity, Prosperity: Setting the Record Straight on the 80s
The income-tax return has made more liars out of Americans thanthe golf scorecard.–Will Rogers
Look at the United States. There is no country in the world where thelaw is kept more within its proper domain: the protection of everyperson’s liberty and property. –Frederic Bastiat, commenting on the United States of the past.
“The greatest good for the greatest number.”… Every dictator whoever lived has justified the enslavement of his people on the theory ofwhat was good for the majority.- Ronald ReaganIf you think health care is expensive now, wait until yousee what it costs when it’s free.. –P.J. O’Rourke
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the firstthings to be bought and sold are legislators. –P.J. O’Rourke
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politicswon’t take an interest in you. –Pericles (430 B.C.)
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places,and does not cure it, or even diminish it. –Mark Twain (1866)
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.But I repeat myself. –Mark Twain
Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. The government is like a baby’salimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility atthe other. –Ronald Reagan
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.–Mark TwainThe income tax is clearly an immoral tax. It basically says that aperson’s productive capacity belongs to the state, and [the state] willdecide how much of what he earns he can keep. David Kelley
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Your children’s children will be living under communism
“Your children’s children will be living under communism.” And “You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright; but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you; we will so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” Nikita Khrushchev, 1959
Forgiveness is the ornament of the brave
Forgiveness is the ornament of the brave.
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. Sir Winston Churchill
‘Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.’ Sir Winston Churchill
Thoughts on trading security for liberty
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 (This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin’s ‘Historical Review,’ 1759, appearing also in the body of the work. –Frothingham: Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413.)
There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or neither. Ramsey Clark
The man who has nothing which he cares about more than his personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. Ronald Reagan, Jan 25, 1974
Mr. Speaker, what, then, is the answer to the question: ‘Is America a Police State?’ My answer is: ‘Maybe not yet, but it is fast approaching.’ The seeds have been sown and many of our basic protections against tyranny have been and are constantly being undermined. The post-9/11 atmosphere here in Congress has provided ample excuse to concentrate on safety at the expense of liberty, failing to recognize that we cannot have one without the other. Ron Paul June 27, 2002 (Rep, R- Texas)
Free people or free stuff
Free people or “free” stuff, that is the choice. Freedom or slavery; because in reality there is no “free stuff” you are just forcing someone to work for you and provide it for you without being paid for the portion of their life that you are taking. The enslavement of one for the benefit of another.
Austerity for government means prosperity for people due to freedom.
Austerity for government means prosperity for people due to freedom.
Freedom or ‘Free’ Stuff. Your choice. You only get one.
A good lesson to always remember: Freedom or ‘Free’ Stuff. Your choice. You only get one.
I thought, if you take something that does not belong to you, that is stealing.
Hogan’s Heroes:
Quote
Col. Klink: When you defeat a country, you confiscate its gold. Stupid!
Sergeant Schultz: I thought, if you take something that does not belong to you, that is stealing. I’m stupid?
Sergeant Schultz: I thought, if you take something that does not belong to you, that is stealing. I’m stupid?
Cell Phone Safety?
June 25, 2001, Rights.com
North Carolina’s Highway Safety Research Center revealed that only 1.5% of traffic accidents were caused by drivers distracted by cell phones; meanwhile, fiddling with car radios caused nearly eight times as many deadly accidents, according to the same study. Eating in the car is at least as deadly as cell phone use (probably more given the Washington Post article, below). Hope you don’t switch stations or CDs either. And, quieting a screaming child ranked above cell phones as causes of accidents.
So, if you think the cell phone ban is good, pull out the radio, the radar detector, and don’t talk to anyone while you are in the car. And don’t even think about putting make-up on in the car.
Oh yes, and please remember: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin. Variations upon this quotation were commonly used by ALL the founders during the Revolution. Think like the men and women who fought for their freedom and yours. Think like people who care about liberty. Don’t think like people who need to be babied by the government. For too long people have been afraid to think for themselves and care about their freedoms. Don’t be a lemming mindlessly following the liberal press. Don’t let the busybodies and statists out there use you to further their aims.
It is already the law in every state that you cannot drive recklessly. Recklessness is recklessness, no matter what the cause.
Also, think about this: According to a federal analysis of 1997 crash data by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, cell phones were a factor in only 57 deaths that year, even though there were 100 million cell phone users around the country. Drunk driving, by contrast, killed approximately 16,000 people in 1997, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Mindless acceptance of “statistics” and “facts” cited to support further intrusions on our individual liberties will only lead to irreperable erosion of our freedom.
Check out these links, if you care to be informed about the issue:
1. (Washington Post: Crash Analysis Lets Cell Phones off Hook) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60521-2001May7.html
2. San Francisco Chronicle: Wheels and Meals Driving with a Soda as Risky as a Cell Phone http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/11/MN182630.DTL
3. San Francisco Chronicle: Dashboard Dining Distracts Drivers, Health Department Says http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/04/10/state2002EDT0224.DTL
4. Also quite interesting: http://www.lp.org/press/op-eds.php?function=view&record=5