Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Even countries that were once more prosperous than their neighbors have found themselves much poorer than their neighbors after just one generation of socialistic policies. Whether these neighboring countries were Ghana and the Ivory Coast or Burma and Thailand, it has been the same story around the world.Nor is economic failure the worst of it. The millions slaughtered by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot for political reasons are an even grimmer reality. Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economist and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, Forbes September 8, 1997
Part of growing up is learning how to control one’s impulses. …
Part of growing up is learning how to control one’s impulses. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Speaking on gun control, U.S. News & World Report, May 10, 1999
Arms in the hands of citizens [may
Arms in the hands of citizens [may] be used at individual discretion..in private self-defense… John Adams
John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of the Government of the USA, 471 (1788) American diplomat and 2nd President of the United States from 1797-1801 (1735-1826)
be used at individual discretion….. ]
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see …
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. P.J. O’Rourke
1993 (1947-2022 )
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Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing …
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. William Allen White
October 24, 1940
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn …
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn Rand
Man’s Rights, The Virtue of Selfishness
Biologists explain how organisms adapt to their physical environment, but ideologues also …
Biologists explain how organisms adapt to their physical environment, but ideologues also adapt to their social environment. The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.The academic world is the natural habitat of half-baked ideas, except for those fields in which there are decisive tests, such as science, mathematics, engineering, medicine – and athletics. In all these fields there comes a time when you must either put up or shut up. Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economist and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, Forbes September 8, 1997
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. …
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
(1694-1778)
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to …
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. Ron Paul
Congressman Ron Paul, 1987 (R-Texas)