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
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
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)
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
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased …
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry
aka an ‘Extremist’ in today’s dialect
Today’s major scapegoats are lawyers. They are blamed for the litigation …
Today’s major scapegoats are lawyers. They are blamed for the litigation explosion and, once again, politicians and bureaucrats come to the rescue by offering solutions that involve ever-more government – such as caps on liability settlements. But lawyers are merely taking advantage of the laws and regulations that make lawsuits possible – the Americans with Disabilities Act, EPA regulations, discrimination laws, and so on. The problem is no more that we have too many lawyers than it is that we have too many businessmen or doctors. As always, it’s a problem of too much government. Harry Browne
Author and Investment Advisor