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.
Everyone Else
Imagine that you rip a business card in two, walk out into your yard with one piece and drop it. Now imagine if that spot in your yard would supply all the energy needs for yourself and five of your neighbors for at least the next 30 years.
Would you be willing to part with those 4 square inches of your yard?
That's the proposed drilling in Alaska.
No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person.
-- Karl Hess
An enemy of liberty is no friend of mine. I do not owe respect to anyone who would enslave me by government force, nor is it wise for such a person to expect it.
-- Isaiah Amberay
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
--Abbie Hoffman
The key to understanding the American system is to imagine that you have the power to make nearly any law you want. But your worst enemy will be the one to enforce it.
-- Unknown
Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
Read the news as though it were source code with a bug in it.
-- Unknown
A person who wants to exercise political power over his fellow man...asks himself: 'How can I ‘do good’ for the people if I just leave them alone?' ... he does not want to pass into history as a "do nothing" leader who ends up as a footnote somewhere. So he begins to... force all other persons to conform to his ideas of what is good for them. If there is opposition, an emergency is declared or created to justify these actions. If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must also possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.
-- Admiral Ben Moreell, Chief of US Navy Seabees during WWII
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant. At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that? Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. The hunger for absolute power and, more to the point, the abuse of power, are part of human nature.
-- Clint Eastwood
Moral judgments must be 'universalizable.' This notion owed something to the ancient Golden Rule... anyone who uses such terms as right and ought is logically committed to universalizability. To say that a moral judgment must be universalizable means... if I judge a particular action... to be wrong, I must also judge any relevantly similar action to be wrong. The same judgment must be made in all conceivable cases... the same prescription has to be made in all hypothetically, as well as actually, similar cases.
-- Britannica.com
...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.
--Richard Mitchell
Acceptance of personal responsibility is key to freedom.
-- Unknown
Truth is often the exact opposite of what the masses believe.
-- Unknown
In fact, it is precisely the function of the State's ideological minions and allies to explain to the public that the Emperor does indeed have a fine set of clothes. ...The age-old success of the ideologists of the State is perhaps the most gigantic hoax in the history of mankind.
--Murray Rothbard
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
--Murray Rothbard
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
--Richard Whatley
If every Jewish and anti-nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle, twenty rounds of ammunition, and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.
-- Aaron Zelman, JPFO
When I hear the word infrastructure, I reach for my gun.
--Ruben Alvarado
Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force - you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery - various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church.
--Joy Davidman
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
--Justice Learned Hand
...But even if we had a king, what could he do for us? They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.
--Hosea 10:3-4
They are slaves who fear to speak,
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose,
Hatred, scoffing and abuse;
Rather than in silence shrink,
From the truths they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
--James Russell Lowell
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
--Abraham Kuyper
Rather a poor man than a liar.
--Proverbs 19:22
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.
--Douglas MacArthur
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.
--Elbert Hubbard
The power of evil men exists and lives on the cowardice of the timid and the good.
--St. John Bosco
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
--V.S. Naipaul
The righteous man leads a blameless life; blessed are his children after him.
--Proverbs 20:7
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
--Jonathan Edwards
When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
--Aeschylus
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
--Havelock Ellis
No nation that forbids you to hate it is worth loving. No government that cannot withstand disrespect is worth respecting.
--PETER ORVETTI
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
-- Justice Louis Brandeis
There can be no rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.
--Polybius
He who has mercy on the cruel will in the end behave cruelly to the merciful.
--Simeon ben Lakish
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
--Anne Bradstreet
Be just before you're generous.
--Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
-- Alexander Pope
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal - well meaning, but without understanding.
--Justice Louis Brandeis
In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.
-- Rev. Martin Niemoeller, Holocaust Survivor
In August of 1992, they gunned down Randy Weaver's son and wife, but I didn't speak up because I'm not a white separatist.
In the winter of 1993, they shot up and burned alive almost 100 Branch Davidians, but I didn't speak up because I'm not a cultist.
On Easter of 2000, they stuck a machine gun in a little boy's face and sent him to a re-education camp, but I didn't speak up because I'm not a refugee.
Then they went after Evil Baby Killing Assault Weapons, and I didn't speak up because I just have a deer rifle.
Hey, what's that smashing sound at my front door?
--Unknown
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent.
When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun.
Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
--Tim Freeman tsf@cs.cmu.edu
Since police started keeping statistics, we now know that assault weapons are/were used in an underwhelming 0.026 of 1% of crimes in New Jersey. This means that my officers are more likely to confront an escaped tiger from the local zoo than to confront an assault rifle in the hands of a drug-crazed killer on the streets.
-- Joseph Constance, Deputy Chief of Trenton NJ Police Dept.
An unarmed people are slaves, or subject to slavery at any moment.
-- Huey P. Newton
I pledge allegiance to the government of the United States of America and to the democracy for which it stands, one nation under a secular authority who respects all religions, beliefs, sexual orientations, except those deemed outdated and too close to the Republican agenda, with liberty and justice for anyone the government thinks deserves it - gun owners, unborn children, and home-schoolers need not apply.
Please do not feed the squirrels. If you feed the squirrels, they'll become overweight, and prone to disease. Their population will grow, and they'll lose their ability to forage for food on their own. They will expect you to feed them and will attack you if you don't. They'll become like little welfare recipients, and you wouldn't want to do this to them.
-- Sign in Rocky Mountain National Park
The data from the 1990 Harvard Medical Practice Study suggest that 150,000 Americans die every year from doctors' negligence - compared with 38,000 gun deaths annually. Why are doctors not declared a public health menace? Because they save more lives than they take. And so it is with guns.
-- Edgar A. Suter MD, Doctors for Integrity and Research in Public Policy
Democracy: A government for the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting... results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic, negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate... Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy. -- U.S. Army Training Manual, Nov 1928
Democracy: Because the United States is a democracy, the majority of our people shall decide how our government is organized and run.
-- U.S. Army The Soldier's Guide, June 1952.
A Republic degrades into a Democracy, and a Democracy degrades into Despotism
--Unknown
Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be. -U.S. Supreme Court in Westbrook v. Mihaly 2 C3d 756
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-- Justice William O. Douglas
an ... officer who acts in violation of the Constitution ceases to represent the government. from BROOKFIELD CO. V. STUART, (1964) 234 F. Supp 94, 99 (U.S.D.C., Wash.D.C.)
Most people agree that the government is largely sluggish and ineffective. Then why do most people demand that it do everything for them?
--Unknown
Presidents talk to the country the way men talk to women? They say, Trust me, go all the way with me, and everything will be all right. And what happens? Nine months later, you're in trouble!
--Unknown
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens...
-- Albert Einstein
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress.
--Unknown
A society that puts equality ... ahead of freedom will end up with neither ...
-- Milton Friedman
The NRA has a point about the inadvisability of simply taking guns away from the populace. If that were possible, it would not disarm that small percentage of the population willing to break the law.... Punishing people who obey the law is backward thinking. ~~ Hugh Downs, Veteran ABC newsman
Reading the newspapers and watching TV news, why you would think that men everywhere were biting dogs, but no dogs anywhere were biting men.
--Unknown
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
--GEOFFREY FISHER, Archbishop of Canterbury
For why should my freedom be judged by another's conscience?
--The Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 10:29
On average, about 150 Americans are killed each year by assault weapons.
On average, about 1,700,000 people are killed each year by their own police
and military in countries where assault weapons are banned.
You do the math.
--figures from R.J. Rummel's book Death by Government (ISBN 1-56000-145-3)
Campaign Ad for John Kimble, who is running against black incumbent Albert Wynn in a majority black district in Maryland: "Hi, this is Jessie Wynn, wife of Congressman Albert Wynn. Albert Wynn does not respect black women. He left me for a white woman. Please send your donations to Kimble for Congress."
--Mrs. Jessie Wynn
A speedy victory is the main object in war.
--Sun Tzu
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
--Horace
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
--Clarence Darrow
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
--St. Thomas Aquinas
Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
--Lord Macaulay (1800–59) British historian
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised...
--Macchiavelli
Perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honor and justice by dollars and cents.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
Next to life itself, self-responsibility is the most precious possession one can lose, and it matters not how he loses it.
--Leonard E. Read
So it happened that all the armed prophets were victorious, and all the unarmed perished.
--Machiavelli
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
-- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
-- Muhammad Ali
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
-- Woody Allen
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
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, antiblack laws on the statute books.
--Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
--Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
It may be true...that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
--Will and Ariel Durant
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
--Alfred Lord Whitehead
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
--Henrik Ibsen
There's no compromising when the basic principles of freedom and truth are at risk. We can compromise on process but never on principle, for compromise of principle is no compromise, it is surrender...plain and simple.
--Unknown
In my considerable experience, I have never, ever, heard a parent say to a child that it's okay to forcibly take toys away from other children who have more toys than you do. Nor have I ever heard a parent tell a child that if one kid has more than the others, then it's okay for those others to form a ‘government’ and vote to take those toys away.
-- Economist Steve Landsburg
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have always come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.
--Col. Jeff Cooper
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
--Edward Abbey
Whatever danger evil human beings represent as individuals is nothing as compared to the dangers of evil human beings in charge of governments.
-- J. Neil Schulman
There are no victims, only volunteers. You volunteer by looking uncertain and afraid. You volunteer by being, as grass-eaters invariably are, unprepared to confront the hazards of life.
--Unknown
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
--Charles A. Beard
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....
--Lord Acton
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
--Thomas Hardy
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
--Rene Descartes
Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
--Neils Bohr
Not many nations return from the graveyard of surrender.
--A.M. Rosenthal
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
--Malcolm Forbes
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
--Herbert Spencer
Man's way of saying things encourages pride; God's way of saying things encourages humility.
--Frank Sells
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
--Samuel Johnson
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
--John Lothrop Motley
Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.
--Josiah C. Wedgwood
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
--Albert Einstein
Former Los Angeles Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda says he didn't vote for Clinton/Gore because "My father was a Republican, and his father was a Republican". When asked if his father was a thief, would that make you a thief? he said, "No, that would make me a Democrat".
Political correctness is tyranny with manners, and cultural cancer is eating away at out society.
--Charlton Heston
The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.
--Henry St. George Tucker, in Blackstone's authoritative 1768 Commentaries on the Laws of England
So they opted for the simple, Hitlerian tactic of selective outrage. They picked a cause, an object, an enemy, and they focused their formless rage on it. GUNS ARE BAD! went the drumbeat. GUNS ARE BAD! yelled the cheerleaders. GUNS ARE BAD! read the signs. And in that poisonous atmosphere, the fragile flower of reason suffocated.
--Unknown
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
--Molière
Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical ... Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
--Blaise Pascal
Opinion is cheap: facts are scared
--C.P. Scott
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
--John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...
--Noam Chomsky
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.
--Herbert Spencer
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
-- Frank Herbert
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.
-- Edward Abbey
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
-- Steve Biko
There is only one way I can see for fallible, ignorant human beings to live in accord with their own real natures and that is to discard forever the principle of controlling each other's behavior, dropping even the _desire_ to control other people, and seeing at every level the fallacy in the logic that leads to such a desire.
-- William T. Powers
The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!
-- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943
Cowboy rules to live by:- Don't interfere with something that ain't botherin' you none.
- The easiest way to eat crow is while it's still warm.
- If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
- If it don't seem like it's worth the effort, it probably ain't.
- Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
- If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
- Generally, you ain't learnin' nothing when your mouth's a-jawin'.
- Tellin' a man to git lost and makin' him do it are two entirely different propositions.
- If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there with ya.
- Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot that comes from bad judgment.
- Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.