Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances that permit this norm to be exceeded / here and there, now and then / are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as ‘bad luck.’ Robert A. Heinlein
The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and …
The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace, and covers with its shield of protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of men that any of its great provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of Government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism…. U.S. Supreme Court
in Ex Parte Milligan 4 Wallace 2 (1866) (David DavisE (1815-1886) U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
The people who say capitalism does not work are saying ‘freedom doesnOt …
The people who say ‘capitalism does not work’ are saying ‘freedom doesnOt work.’ And what they mean by that is they want power over you to force you to change reality for them. Christian H F Riley
Rights.com March 26, 2008
I have this friend… well, we aren’t really friends – we just …
I have this friend… well, we aren’t really friends – we just share custody of an ex-wife. Becker
Becker TV show
Gun registration is not enough. Janet Reno Former Attorney General, December 10, …
Gun registration is not enough.
Janet Reno
Former Attorney General, December 10, 1993
We have confused the free with the free and easy. Adlai Stevenson …
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
Adlai Stevenson
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of …
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be. Richard Feynman
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1) Those …
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1) Those who fear and distrust the people . . . . 2) Those who identify themselves with thepeople, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe . . . depository of the public interest. Thomas Jefferson
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know …
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilization escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite. Russell Kirk
The Conservative Mind (1953)
The views of other nations, however enlightened the justices of this court …
The views of other nations, however enlightened the justices of this court may think them to be, cannot be imposed upon Americans through the Constitution. Antonin Scalia
Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas joining in his dissent.