At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether we have done well or ill. The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property. Thomas Jefferson
On removing taxes in 1805 (1743-1826)
It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children; but …
It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children; but it is our duty to leave them liberty.
The Resolutions of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1774.
Spam from: patriotfundusa.com
We’ve been getting tons of spam texts from m.patriotfundusa.com / patriotfundusa.com. There is nothing on the patriotfundusa.com web site. The domain “patriotfundusa.com” is only a few months old. This seems really scammy.
It certainly would be imprudent to donate using a link like that.
Below is one example of dozens we’ve gotten.
When you tote up the carbon emissions caused by clearing land to …
When you tote up the carbon emissions caused by clearing land to grow corn, fertilizing it and transporting it, corn ethanol leaves twice the carbon footprint as gasoline. Newsweek
April 14, 2008
Democracy is three wolves and a sheep deciding who is for lunch. …
Democracy is three wolves and a sheep deciding who is for lunch. Unknown
Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of …
Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems. Homer Simpson
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[S]he had never believed in fighting fair. Either you fought, or you did not, and it was never a game. Fairness was for people standing safely to one side, talking while others bled. Robert Jordan
Cadsuane, Crossroads of Twilight, Wheel of Time
UNTIL WE CAN BAN ALL OF THEM, THEN WE MIGHT AS WELL …
UNTIL WE CAN BAN ALL OF THEM, THEN WE MIGHT AS WELL BAN NONE. U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum, Democrat, Senate Hearings 1993Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
I have read their platform, and though I think there are some …
I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. ‘What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.’ Daniel Webster
Speech at Marshfield, Sept. 1, 1848. P. 433. 1782-1852
You murder someone, you aren’t going to have the chance to …
You murder someone, you aren’t going to have the chance to do it again. Dorothy E. Riley
1980