I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison
Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 16, 1788, (1751-1836)
The only investors who need wide diversification are those who do not …
The only investors who need wide diversification are those who do not understand what they are doing. [It] makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing. Warren Buffett
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‘MY BILL … ESTABLISHES A 6-MONTH GRACE PERIOD FOR THE TURNING IN OF ALL HANDGUNS’ U.S. Representative Major Owens Congressional Record 11/10/93’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
Women’s liberationists spread the word that…the only peaceful family is …
Women’s liberationists spread the word that…the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. R. Emmett Tyell
The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984
The federal government cannot stop illegal immigrants, it cannot stop drug dealers, …
The federal government cannot stop illegal immigrants, it cannot stop drug dealers, but it can audit every small business in America. Newt Gingrich
on the IRS, as quoted in U.S. News & World Report, April 14, 1997
Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Insecurity spreads like contagion. …
Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Insecurity spreads like contagion. The threat is chaos. Iraq is not the only part of this. But it is a test of whether we treat the threat seriously. Tony Blair
March 2003
Isn’t it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune …
Isn’t it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously. Cincinnati Enquirer
The dissent grants that petitionersO situation is unfortunate that they ‘understandably attract …
The dissent grants that petitionersO situation is ‘unfortunate’ that they ‘understandably attract this CourtOs sympathy.’ Post, at 1, 39. But ‘sympathyO is not what petitioners have a right to demand. What they have a right to demand is evenhanded enforcement of the lawNof Title VIIOs prohibition against discrimination basedon race. And that is what, until todayOs decision, has been denied them. Samuel Alito
In the firefighters case decided in the U.S. Supreme Court June 29, 2009,Justice Alito addresses ‘sympathy’
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and …
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. William E. Borah
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy …
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency….Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of a society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose. John Maynard Keynes