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
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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
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 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
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. Noah Webster
In ‘An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution,’ 1787, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at p. 56 ( New York, 1888 ).
Gun control? It’s the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. Sammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano
in Vanity Fair magazine. From ‘Spelling Lesson,’ and ‘The Right Answers,’ The New American, October 25, 1999, pages 11 and 41.
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965