It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy
to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution.
The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise,
and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle,
and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.
--James Madison
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Everyone Else
...Let's kill you and split up your wealth. You're a Baha'i in Iran, a Jew in Poland, a Branch Davidian in Waco: you have no rights which mainstream citizens need respect. As long as 51% of the citizenry concur, it's all right to waste you and steal your shit. That's democracy. Sound a bit extreme? Watch the news or 60 Minutes sometime - really watch, don't just sit there letting them pour crap through your eyes into your cranium. How does our government expand its power? It gets its media toadies to demonize some minority - gun-owners, 'cultists', hell, even the tobacco companies it heavily subsidizes - so the public will agree that their rights can be violated with impunity.
Victor Milan
The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society that is coming, where everyone would be interdependent.
1899, John Dewey, educational philosopher, proponent of modern public schools.
Current Political Writers
The whole point of the Constitution - written by men much smarter than we are - was to prevent the likes of William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, Franklin Roosevelt or Gary Bauer from attaining too much power... Our Constitution is the most brilliantly freedom-promoting document ever conceived in the minds of men. So it would be really cool if people (like presidents, Supreme Court justices and Gary Bauer) would read it. Liberals don't read it, and certainly have no intention of living under it. They say it "grows" and, surprisingly enough, the Constitution always seems to "grow" in ways they like. It never grows a right to school vouchers or a right to bear machine guns or a right to free champagne for blondes. It just keeps growing rights like the right to stick a fork in a baby's head, and the right to discriminate against disfavored racial groups, especially white men.
--Ann Coulter
Racial charges by many black politicians, civil-rights spokesmen, self-appointed black leaders and guilt-ridden whites are just plain nonsense. [Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Kweisi Mfume, the Black Caucus, et al.] get away with them because we're ill-informed or are too timid to question their assumptions and assertions. ... At one time, black Americans didn't enjoy constitutional protections. Today, we do. As such, the civil-rights struggle is over and won. That doesn't mean that there aren't other problems, but they are not civil-rights problems. If we diagnose them incorrectly as civil-rights problems, however, their solutions will remain illusive.
--Walter Williams
... would teach us that our diversity is a strength. Not quite so. Diversity is a challenge. Our strength lies, rather, in our common love of freedom and the insistence that everybody have it. But freedom also imposes conditions, often harsh, on those who would cherish it. That duty is what civilized nations forget and their statesmen are continually obliged to etch into the national memory.
--Ken Masugi, Claremont Institute
A good sign of critical enfeeblement is the resort to psychoanalysis; there’s often a strong strain of condescension in it.
--Myles Kantor
We now know that 'improved relations' means letting a U.S. warship be bombed without retaliating, in the new diverse Navy.
--Michael Savage
The first rule of national defense is national unity. The second rule is to avoid international arrangements that compromise our sovereignty.
--J.R. Nyquist
Come January, let's hope our new president rebuilds our broken military not only materially, but morally, by putting in top leaders with the guts to hold to their sworn duty.
--David Hackworth
When the administration of justice goes awry, citizens are doomed to tyranny.
--Paul Craig Roberts
Charity properly falls to the citizen, not the government.
--Larry Elder
We define a set of fairly simple catechisms, the first part of which is we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. These rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Government exists to secure these rights, not to deliver happiness.
--George Will
Men who break their oath to defend the Constitution and attempt to undermine it are exactly traitors. These men should be tried for treason. But that won't happen, will it? Treason and blasphemy were once considered unspeakable sins in this country. Men were loyal to their country and respected their Creator. First we stopped respecting God's Name and soon after, we stopped being loyal to our country.
--Michael Peirce
Prosperity and economic recovery have their greatest friend in free markets, but their second greatest friend is paralyzed government.
--Lew Rockwell
We are running out of tests that we can afford to fail. Gun registration may be the last one. If we let them do this to us, we deserve what we get.
--Michael Peirce
where is the social justice when young couples, struggling to maintain families and make their mortgage payments, have to pay the medical bills of seniors, who are travelling the earth and cruising its seas? Some elderly people are quite poor. However, the elderly as a class have more assets than the young who are paying the retired population's medical bills. -Paul Craig Roberts
It's a mistake to think that America produces good men and good teachers in such profusion that one can make do with only the conformists among them.
--Christopher Caldwell
Silence in the presence of an attack is consent.
--Charley Reese
Sound bites, however, may be as tough a piece of intellectual meat as the dumbed-down, dependent-minded American public can chew."
--Charlie Reese
Surely it is obvious that these misbegotten and misnamed 'debates' - actually, parallel press conferences - test no aptitude pertinent to the performance of serious presidential duties.
--George Will
Hyperbole is not so much a rhetorical tool for politicians, as it is a way of life.
--Michael Quinn Sullivan
As deplorable as Clinton's morals are, the real beef Americans have with his administration is its lawlessness. This lawlessness is dictatorial in character. The dictatorial inclinations of the Clinton-Gore administration manifest themselves in the ways the executive branch ignores the powers of Congress and federal courts and in the use of propaganda to silence facts.
--Paul Craig Roberts
Without a doubt, the only thing standing between tyranny and us is the widespread possession of privately owned firearms. If the American people want to retain their liberties, they will fight to the death for the right to keep and bear arms. If they have any hopes that their children will grow up in a land of freedom, they will fight to the death for the right to keep and bear arms. If they expect the Clintons of tomorrow to submit to their role as servant of the people and not to become their masters, they will fight to the death for the right to keep and bear arms.
--Chuck Baldwin
There was a time in this land when family was more important than government, when children honored their parents and when their parents grew old they helped where they could. Sometimes this meant money. Sometimes it meant a place to live. Sometimes it meant just being there to do for their parents what they could no longer do for themselves. Not any more. Today parents and children alike turn their responsibilities over to the federal nanny that extorts taxes from the haves so the have nots can avoid their responsibilities to their families and communities.
--Lyn Nofziger
Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices who will do the same. As Gore put it, he will appoint judges who view the Constitution as a 'document that grows'.
--Ann Coulter
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools to teach children to question the authority of government?
--Neal Boortz
Ignorance creates a fertile climate for demagogues; maybe that's why politicians give so much support to the public education establishment.
--Walter Williams
In days gone by, character protected everyone. It protected children, who could play outside unsupervised, and who could go to school, ball games and Saturday afternoon movies by foot or bike without supervision and return safely. Character protected men from false accusations. It protected women from abuse, and families from dissolution. Character protected people from themselves. Emotions were kept in check. Even when character failed and people were murdered for love, hate or money, no one fired indiscriminately upon strangers. Character protected people from crime and gratuitous acts of violence. Even criminals had enough character to feel remorse. Today government has undertaken to do what character once did. But government has no more character than the people in government who, in turn, have no more character than the people who elect them.
--Paul Craig Roberts
Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common folk. ...Nevertheless, if the urban insane wish to be prey for predators, that's their privilege. But no one has the right to tell someone else that he or she cannot possess the tools necessary to defend his or her life and the lives of loved ones.
--Charley Reese
The goal of education is to provide each child with basic skills, to cultivate critical thinking and a lifelong love of learning, and to provide maximum opportunity for the child to realize his or her potential - not to make each classroom look like some Politically Correct singing soda-pop commercial, and certainly not to propagandize the children of this constitutional republic in these bureaucrats' notion of democracy, a nightmare vision of dysfunctional collectivist mediocrity which we hardly dare contemplate.
--Vin Suprynowicz
The Constitution of the United States was not created as an empty shell, to be filled with the content du jour, a receptacle of the baggage people carry as they arrive from mostly failed societies. The Constitution was erected as an umbrella under which people from every direction of the wind may be safe, enjoy opportunity, and benefit by that exceptional generation of men who applied the best of their knowledge, wisdom and instinct - in that order - to make available the blessings of liberty to all.
--Balint Vazsonyi
25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?
-- Andrew Ford
There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes ... and dead armadillos.
-- Jim Hightower
[Affluence] is changing the nation's political sensibility, reducing to the vanishing point the once-sturdy concern for limited government. Congress is complicit in all this because Congress could stop it. Until it does, we will have more ...'strip mall socialism,' sprawling government, ubiquitous and undistinguished, with 'no theme or theory, just momentum'.
--George Will
Have we as a people been so dumbed down we can't see it? Well, this is what happens, I'm afraid, in a postmodern culture where all values are equivalent and all truth is relative. One moment the President browbeats Congress to pass a trade bill with China. Forget Christians being persecuted. The same day the same President angrily demands sanctions against Japan for hunting whales. There are no principles, just momentary preferences, and everything depends on what's to be gained by those in positions of power. ...[W]hat's good enough for whales ought to be good enough for persecuted Christians.
--Charles Colson
Communism and socialism are seductive. They promise us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!
--Walter Williams
We live in an age dominated by information and, in particular, the battle of ideas. These ideas come in the form of words...In today's world of information warfare and media saturation, the easiest way to get away with doing evil things is to describe them in pleasant, even seductive, language...State stealing becomes 'compassion for the poor.' Adultery becomes 'an affair.' Sodomy becomes 'an alternative lifestyle.' Sexual intercourse with a young female intern becomes 'an inappropriate relationship.' This debasement of language is an indicator of a decaying, putrid culture.
--Andrew Sandlin
...[T]he ruling elite can rest easy at night, knowing that the sleep of the masses will not be disturbed by those nasty, perverted freedom lovers.
--Gene Callahan
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. ..[Eventually], the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public Treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy.
--Andrew Tyler Fraser
Distinguished and discreet spokesmen for the government haven't changed all that much since Pontius Pilate, who left the definition of truth to others. It wasn't his area.
--Paul Greenberg
The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.
-- James A. Donald
Public corruptions create public cesspools, around which private people must step in their private lives. Slowly, ineluctably these cesspools begin to define and dominate existence. ...That the crude and obscene are as good as the righteous, honorable, upright and just, my brothers and sisters, there isn't a word of truth in it.
--William Murchison
Of course, the problem with the Clintons is not that all conspiracy theories about them are true, just that all conspiracy theories about them are possible.
--Jonah Goldberg
In his convention appearance Gore recalled how hardships demanded self-reliance from his parents and made them an inspiration to him. Gore wowed his convention by vowing to banish forever all the sorts of challenging conditions that made his parents so inspiring.
--George Will
So spare me all the cutesy slogans about cold dead fingers; Americans are losing their freedom because they won’t get up off of their cold dead asses!
-- Michael Pierce
The belief that government schools are neutral on morality and religion is extraordinarily naive. Once it becomes clear that government schools indoctrinate captive students in the tenets and dogma of humanism to the exclusion of all other religions, it also becomes clear that the government itself is in the business of establishing a state-run, religious monopoly. It is time for the total privatization of schools and the building of a wall of separation between state and education.
--Linda Bowles
For Bill Clinton and his ilk, all that counts is one's hopes, dreams and intentions. Performance does not matter. Reality is an inconvenience to be ignored.
--Michael Quinn Sullivan
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
--Gore Vidal
But when historians look back, they will date the current expansion from 1982 ... not 1993, when Mr. Clinton took office. It was in late 1982 that a sea change occurred in the American economy. ... But in terms of economic performance, government policy and effect on the thinking of professional economists, the 1980s and 1990s form a continuous era radically different from what preceded it.
--Lawrence B. Lindsey, former governor of the Federal Reserve
Where Clinton's lies have been those of self-protection and survival, Gore's have by and large been ones of self-aggrandizement and glorification.
--Gore biographer Bill Turque
...[E]ven Castro recognizes the right to smoke and doesn't attempt to regulate the size of your toilet tank.
--Lew Rockwell
If the price that I must pay to obtain my freedom, is to acknowledge that the Governmet was granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free.
-- Paul Anderson
The most recent crusades for gun control seem to have fizzled, and that's just as well, not only for the sake of the freedom and safety of most Americans, but also for the public reputations of those who push the banning of firearms. There is an ever-increasing amount of evidence that gun control is a failure, not only in the United States but in other countries, too.
--Sam Francis
Generations to come will wonder how a man like Bill Clinton could do what he did and survive in office. They will conclude that he was merely a reflection of the nation's cynicism and moral confusion....
--Cal Thomas
Our national violence problem is really a cultural problem. Our entertainment media have glorified and encouraged the very worst male tendencies - their urges toward sexual promiscuity, aggression, and irresponsibility. Our schools have responded by trying to force boys to act like girls by sewing quilts, talking about their feelings, and playing games no one wins. It's time for a new approach. That is, it's time to return to what has always worked.
--Mona Charen
What the nation may not survive is the loss of its fundamental character. When all is said and done, when the debates about taxes, Social Security and bilingualism yield to the subjects of tomorrow, we realize amid the din that the United States, above all, is about freedom.
--Balint Vazsonyi
You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know that if they don't, those who aren't shot will be hanged.
--Michael Shirley
Most media types - who wouldn't darken a church door save to cover a funeral - don't understand ordinary people who express belief in standards, maybe even - gasp - in absolutes, such as truth and falsehood. The media regard such folk as yokels who on Sunday morning unaccountably rise and go to church, when they could be sipping coffee at Starbucks.
--Bill Murchison
In 1950, the tax burden on the typical American family was about 5 percent of their annual income. Today, the government burden on families is about 40 percent. Translation: If taxes had stayed at the 1950 level, millions of mothers could return to the full-time care of their homes and children with little or no reduction in family income.And according to a series of recent studies and surveys, that's where most of them have decided they would prefer to be: at home, raising their children.
--Linda Bowles
Those institutions - marriage, family, religion, schools - that historically have preserved our social learning curves and served as bulwarks against moral degeneration, are under broad attack, and crumbling. It is not a priority of liberals to stop this assault.
--Linda Bowles
Our government has not been warring on poverty; it has been creating poverty by attacking every value and every institution on which the generation of wealth depends. And with this, inevitably, it is corroding our liberty.
--William E. Simon
By insisting that our basic identification should be racial or ethnic rather than national, [Bushites] ignore the truth that we are united by more than separates us - including our common humanity, faith in the Creator and quest for freedom, justice and security.
--Don Feder
The welfare state reduces a citizen to a client, subordinates them to a bureaucrat, and subjects them to rules that are anti- work, anti-family, anti-opportunity and anti-property... Humans forced to suffer under such anti-human rules naturally develop pathologies. The evening news is the natural result of the welfare state.
--Unknown
The war on teen smoking is going to be just as successful as the war on drugs. Just as the war on drugs has weakened our Bill of Rights protections against unreasonable search and seizures (Article IV) and taking of property without due process of law (Article V), the war on tobacco promises to continue the process. When our Constitution is finally buried, a fitting inscription for its tombstone might be, ``We Did It For The Children.''
-- Walter Williams
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
--Walter Bagehot
The journalistic establishment is like one big, pretentious snot-nosed French waiter, and it's time for America to hurl a glass of ice water in its face and give it the boot.
--National Journal's William Powers
What it boils down to is this: when Republicans give Democrats everything they want, it's called 'bipartisanship.' When they don't surrender, it's called 'partisan politics'.
--John Nowacki
A society dominated by intact families does a better job protecting women and children against crime, poverty, and sadness. It also gives men powerful incentives to behave responsibly: love, interest, shame, and honor.
--Thomas G. West, "Vindicating The Founders"
Waco will be remembered forever because it sums up key features of the political culture of the 1990s:- the untrammeled power of the presidency
- the complicity of the media in covering up federal crimes
- the bias against religion among the power elite,
- the disregard of individual rights that is habitual in our time
--Lew Rockwell
But of course we would never let our acceptance of killing fetuses expand into a tolerance for killing babies. We're a long, long way from such barbarism. A good three inches, anyway.
--Steve Chapman
When the history of the rise and fall of America is finally written, it may well be recorded that the beginning of the end was signaled by the blind submission of a pagan people to the tyranny of a 'nine-headed Caesar'.
--Linda Bowles
When legislation attracts broad, bipartisan support on Capitol Hill, chances are it is either a worthless piece of symbolism or an assault on individual freedom.
--Jacob Sullum
The path of desire is littered with victims.
--J.R. Nyquist
Ordinary people need facts and to have those facts put into the context of their daily lives so that the news makes sense. What's done about such facts is up to the people. But the job of a newsman is to tell the truth and remind folks that they should not ignore it.
--Paul M. Rodriguez
We're O.J. nation -- where the race card trumps reason, justice and national interest. ... We used to teach our people to transcend superficial differences and think of themselves as Americans first.... Today, individuals are told their hyphenated identity is the only one that really counts.
--Don Feder
In part, the past is important because people who lived before us discovered certain truths from which we can learn and avoid repeating their mistakes. But as we more and more find the past a relic unworthy of our attention, our short-term memory grows shorter and our ignorance grows larger.
--Cal Thomas
Since the collectivists and statists have no faith in the individual or individual responsibility they have little faith in the Bill of Rights. A document that places the individual and certain self-evident truths above the needs of the state no longer seems relevant to them.
--Diane Alden
When our chief magistrate, successor to Washington and Lincoln, lies in sworn testimony, haggles over the meaning of 'is,' disports himself with an intern, bombs foreign countries at suspiciously convenient moments, and prepares to toss a 6-year-old Cuban boy into the open jaws of Fidel Castro (an unmistakably evil character), the mud sticks to us all.
--William Murchison
The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.
--Paul Craig Roberts
As the free press develops, the paramount point is whether the journalist, like the scientist or scholar, puts truth in the first place or in the second.
--Walter Lippmann
The docility and gullibility of so many Americans is a delight for government overlords.
--Linda Bowles
Journalists have determined it is their mission not to report the news, but to pre-digest it, an experience akin to having someone chew your food for you and spit it into your mouth. In fact, the only thing sanitary about your morning newspaper is if the delivery boy has thrown it on a relatively clean part of the driveway.
--Norman Liebmann
The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.
--George Will
Ignorance gives politicians a free hand to exploit the politics of envy. Our education system creates a growing surplus of that ignorance.
--Walter E. Williams
If resources and wealth are allocated on the basis of need rather than production, people will compete to be more needy rather than more productive.
--Linda Bowles
Government control of private-sector industry used to be called fascism. Today it is called the Clinton administration.
--Geoff Metcalf
Decent Americans are paving the road for tyranny.... In the name of one social objective or another, we are creating what the Constitution's Framers feared -- concentration of power in Washington and the creation of a superstate... In the pursuit of lofty ideals like health care, fighting crime and improving education, we Americans have given up one of our most effective protections against tyranny -- dispersion of political power.
--Walter E. Williams
As power overwhelms principle, life in these United States will continue to get worse.
--Thomas L. Jipping
[T]he public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.
--Walter E. Williams
...[C]onstitutionalism limits the wants that are permissible. As the Supreme Court has said, the purpose of the Bill of Rights is to put some things 'beyond the reach of majorities' - things like First Amendment freedoms.
--George Will
It pains me to reflect that the political party that was formed to put Thomas Jefferson into the Executive Mansion today cannot find as a candidate anything higher on the scale of evolution than William Jefferson Clinton, who is not fit to lick the ground his namesake's horses shat upon. It pains me further that that thing which pollutes the name Jefferson can win.
--Charles Curley (http://www.curleywolfe.net/crc/)
...[A]n immutable law that bears repeating even in the Cyber Age: Human knowledge is the scarcest resource of all. Beware of the politicos with grand, sweeping, new ideas for their sweet-smelling, scientific planned society. To be remembered while we listen to the presidential debates: As the power of the state increases, the liberty of the citizen decreases.
--Arnold Beichman
The people we remember and revere are those who believed in the things that matter most: the things of the spirit, such as honor, selflessness, humility, service to others, self-control, fidelity, and virtue.... Such notions used to be so basic they were rarely discussed.... They were considered 'self-evident truths'.
--Cal Thomas
I have yet to hear anyone afflicted with the "gun control" disability dial 9-1-1 and specify, "Now please be sure to send the kind of cops who are disarmed. If you can't do that, we'd rather you not send anyone at all to stop the men who are holding my daughter at knifepoint, because in this household we don't believe that guns ever solve anything."
--Vin Suprynowicz
Christians and Jews read the account of Joseph in Egypt, when Joseph placed the Egyptians in bondage to Egypt’s official divinity, the Pharaoh, by imposing a 20% income tax on them (Genesis 47:24). Today, it would take a tax cut of 50% in every Western nation to bring the tax burden back to Egyptian tyranny status. And as for a "liberating" 10% flat tax, that was what the prophet Samuel identified as kingly tyranny in Israel (I Samuel 8:15, 17). The faithful in the pews do not relate what they read to what they are required to pay. They do not make the connection. They cannot tell the difference.
--Gary North
In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.
--Paul Craig Roberts
Clinton is to Nixon what the Al Capone was to a kid stealing hub caps.
--Don Feder
Bumper Stickerisms
If they take away our guns, how will we shoot liberals?
The Million Mom March - the organization that would rather see a woman lying dead with her pantyhose knotted around her neck than see her with an unlocked gun in her hand.
Communism is a murderous failure. Socialism is communism with movie stars. Modern environmentalism is communism with trees.
-- Unknown
Joe McCarthy, George Wallace and Barry Goldwater were right about a lot of things. John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were wrong about almost everything.
Outside of a dog, books are man's best friend... inside, it's too dark to read.
It is easy to say 'vast right-wing conspiracy'; it is difficult to admit that the Founding Fathers are its founding members.
Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.
-- Unknown
Political correctness is today's pocket change, but that courage is the currency of history.
We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time, but anyone who owns a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is a paranoid extremist.
Q: How many Million Moms does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: They don't do that; they just pass laws against burned-out bulbs and wonder why it's still so dark.
It's OK to stand on your principles. It's not OK for you to step on mine.
Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.
When cryptography is outlawed, only outlaws Eldi9w sLwI&wls9v.
Gun Control: The idea that black people will be better off if only Mark Fuhrman is allowed to have a gun.
Oskar Schindler gave 41 semiautomatic rifles to Jewish workers near the end of WWII.
This was omitted from the movie.
John F.Kennedy was an NRA life member.
Lee Harvey Oswald was in the ACLU.
A fifteen-year old girl can be trusted with a choice on whether or not to have an abortion, but a 35-year old mother can't be trusted with a choice on whether or not to use a trigger lock?
Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself a government.
--Unknown
220 years ago my government gave me certain inalienable rights. Ever since then, they've been trying to correct their mistake.
--Unknown
Sex-ed classes don't encourage kids to have sex, but gun safety classes encourage violence?
Over 65 million American gun owners didn't hurt anyone today.
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
Robert A. Heinlein
A Constitutional Republic is when voting on dinner is expressly forbidden,
and the sheep are armed.
Unknown
We have four boxes used to guarantee our liberty: The soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box
MTV may talk about lighting fires and killing children, but Janet Reno actually does something about it.
--Spy Magazine
Vote Demopublican, it's easier than thinking.
Why is it okay for any two adults to exchange bodily fluids, but not dried plants or small metal machines?
Those who live by the sword die by the sword, but those who have a sword live longer.
The U.S. Constitution may be flawed, but it's a whole lot better than what we have now.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we put Bill Clinton there?
Pythagorean Theorem: 24 words
The Lord's Prayer: 66 words
Archimedes' Principle: 67 words
The 10 Commandments: 179 words
The Gettysburg Address: 286 words
The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words
The U.S. Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words
A well-regulated population, being necessary to the security of a police state, the right of the Government to keep and destroy arms, shall not be infringed.
A well-read electorate, being necessary to the stability of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed
So many laws, so little order
SUPPORT EDUCATION: Close government schools.
The existence of consensus makes conspiracy altogether unnecessary
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
Strength is additive, Rights are not
Power + Politics = Corpses. Everywhere. Always.
- Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.
Teach a man to fish; and you will not have to listen to his incessant whining about how hungry he is. - Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.
Teach a man to fish; and you can sell him fishing equipment. - Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.
Teach a man to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. - Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Unless he doesn't like sushi,then you also have to teach him to cook. - Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.
Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in the boat and drink beer all day. - Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.
Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime.
Teach a man to sell fish and he eats steak.
Them
Joseph Stalin, when informed after World War II that the Pope disapproved of Russian troops occupying Trieste, turned to his advisors and asked, 'The Pope? The Pope? How many divisions does he have?
Decisions about motherhood and abortion, schooling, cosmetic surgery, treatment of venereal disease, or employment, and others where the decision or lack of one will affect the child's future should not be made unilaterally by parents.
--Hillary Rodham Clinton
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual...and to substitute the community. --Adolph Hitler
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all. --Nikita Khrushchev
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society. --Hillary!
We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.
--Stephen Schneider, environmental activist, in Discover Magazine, Oct. '89
The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society that is coming, where everyone would be interdependent.
--1899 John Dewey, educational philosopher, proponent of modern public schools.
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
--1896 John Dewey
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent overeducation from happening. The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
--U.S. Commissioner of Education, William T. Harris, 1889
Truth and news are not the same thing.
--Katharine Graham, owner of The Washington Post
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
--Henry Kissinger
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.
--Bill Clinton, 22 March 1994
All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately ... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon ... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.
-- SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.
--Sarah Brady
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
-- Ann Landers, Director, Handgun Control, Inc.
...last minute maneuvers in congress can make a mockery of presidential decrees.
--Dan Rather, CBS Evening News, 3-3-95
The benefits of the reading, writing and math does [sic] not outweigh the need for [black and white] children to learn to work and play together.
--John Wilson, Director of the National Education Association
Power Corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
The Constitution is constantly getting in the way.
-- Hamilton Wright, principal architect of drug prohibition in the U.S., before passage of the Harrison Act of 1914.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms, --V.I. Lenin. Millions died.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves --Joseph Stalin. Millions more died.