To disarm the people – that is the best and most effective way to enslave them…
Framer of the Declaration of Rights, Virginia,1776, which became the basis for the U.S. Bill of Rights, 3 Elliot, Debate at 380.1725-1792
To disarm the people – that is the best and most effective way to enslave them…
Framer of the Declaration of Rights, Virginia,1776, which became the basis for the U.S. Bill of Rights, 3 Elliot, Debate at 380.1725-1792
The Constitution…plainly is not adequate to protect the individual against the growing bureaucracy…. The individual is almost certain to be plowed under, unless he has a well-organized active political group to speak for him. … But if a powerful sponsor is lack, individual liberty withers. Justice William O. Douglas
1968
Events never wait on anyone
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight, Wheel of Time, p 542
Judge, and be prepared to be judged.
Ayn Rand
VOS, (1905-1982)
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it, or even diminish it. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens): Letter from New York to the Alto Californian, May 28, 1867. (1835-1910)
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)
Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
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The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006)
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. Ronald Reagan
January 16, 1984
Puritanism-the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. H. L. Mencken