The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get. Robert Smith
Fear of Ghosts
The origin of all constitutional rights, according to Lincoln, was the right …
The origin of all constitutional rights, according to Lincoln, was the right that a man had to own himself, and therefore to own the product of his labor. Government exists to protect that right, and to regulate property only to make it more valuable to its possessors. Harry V. Jaffa
Abraham Lincoln on the essence of slavery and government jobs [as reported in a Wall Street Journal article by Jaffa, September 12, 1996]
I couldn’t remember things until I took that Sam Carnegie course. …
I couldn’t remember things until I took that Sam Carnegie course. Bill Peterson
former Houston Oiler football coach
The first principle of a free society is that each person owns …
The first principle of a free society is that each person owns himself. You are your private property, and I am mine. Most Americans probably accept that first principle. Those who disagree are obliged to inform the rest of us just who owns us, at least here on earth. Dr. Walter E. Williams
May 7, 2003, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20030507.shtml
The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated …
The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincon’s Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. The Atlanta Journal
1990s
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established …
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
We find a race of men living in that day whom we …
We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers. They were iron men. They fought for the principle that they were contending for, and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us. Abraham Lincoln
Speech July 10, 1858 in Chicago on the Declaration of Independence and its celebration (1809-1865)
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, …
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it’s a limit that’s very seldom mentioned. It’s the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don’t think there are any other conditions to free speech. I’ve got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven’t got a right to press it on anybody else. …. Nobody’s got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors. H.L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
When Presidents begin to worry about images … they become like athletes, the …
When Presidents begin to worry about images … they become like athletes, the football teams and the rest, who become so concerned about what is written about them and what is said about them that they don’t play the game well … The President, with the enormous responsibilities he has, must be constantly preening in front of a mirror. I don’t worry about polls, I don’t worry about images. I never have. Richard M. Nixon
1971
These are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have …
These are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others. Groucho Marx