Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state; Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Dec. 10, 1948) Approved by the United Nations with the nations of the Soviet bloc, Saudi Arabia, & South Africa abstaining.
Government’s power to solve problems comes from its ability to reassign resources, whether by taxing, spending, regulation or simply passing laws. But that very ability energizes countless investors and entrepreneurs and ordinary Americans to go digging for gold by lobbying government. In time, a whole industry – large, sophisticated, professionalized, and to a considerable extent self serving – emerges and then assumes a life of its own. This industry is a drain on the productive economy, and there appears to be no natural limit to its growth. As it grows, the steady accumulation of subsidies and benefits, each defended in perpetuiry by a professional interest group, calcifies government. Jonathan Rauch
Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government
Genius is perseverance in disguise.
Mike Newlin
Those who reap the blessings of liberty must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine, 1777, 1737-1809.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. Al Gore
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, CNN, March 9, 1999 when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey. One can’t take the ‘initiative’ to ‘create’ something which is already created. The node on the Internet was active in September 1969. The Internet was then known as the ARPANET. Al Gore started serving in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976.
The great object is that every man be armed [and] everyone who is able may have a gun. Patrick Henry
In the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. 1736-1799
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Take her down!
Howard Walter Gilmore
Cmdr. Howard Walter Gilmore, desperately wounded and unable to climb back into his submarine, USS Growler (SS-215), in the face of an approaching Japanese gunboat, 7 February 1943.
Why should I trust you? You’re reporters.
Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996
I think the only thing we can do is reveal the truth. Politicians aren’t very good at doing that, they are demagogues. So I really haven’t gotten into the right profession to deliver truth. U.S. Congressman Ron Paul
Most of today’s political thought can be summed up in four words: My rights, your responsibilities. Dave Edmondson