Thoughts
From Michael Bloomberg
Americans are facing an " epidemic of dishonesty " in Washington that is more dangerous than terrorism or communism.
The greatest threat to American democracy is not communism, jihadism, or any other external force or foreign power It is our own willingness to tolerate dishonesty in service of political party, and in the pursuit of power.
2018-05-27 at 15:45:46
More From James Madison
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.
2018-05-09 at 19:32:55
More From Alexis de Tocqueville
Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they cannot destroy either the one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all powerful form of government, but elected by the people. They combine the principle of centralization and that of popular sovereignty; this gives them a respite: they console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians. Every man allows himself to be put in leading-strings, because he sees that it is not a person or a class of persons but the people at large, who hold the end of his chain.
2018-05-08 at 13:05:33
From George P. Shultz
We are not really going to get anywhere until we take the criminality out of drugs!!
2018-05-03 at 13:51:36
From Laurence Vance
There is no right to a job, a house, a loan, a fringe benefit, an apartment, a "living wage," a parking spot, a discount, a product, or a service.
2018-04-30 at 11:31:29
From Frederic Bastiat
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
2018-04-30 at 11:30:33
And More From Thomas Jefferson
Still one thing more, fellow citizens - a wise and frugal government , which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circles of our felicities.
2018-04-30 at 11:29:27
From Alan Barth
Free men can never rely upon courts alone for the preservation of their freedom. Courts can give warning of danger. But they are really powerless to protect us from ourselves. They can remind us of our heritage. But they cannot preserve that heritage for us.
2018-04-30 at 11:27:47
From Andrew J. Napolitano
Everything the government runs is bankrupt. Medicare is broke. Medicaid is broke. The post office is broke. Amtrak is broke. Social Security is a bigger ponzi scheme and a bigger fraud than anything Bernie Madoff ever dreamed of and its’ broke. The government consumes wealth. Private industry produces wealth. The government and private enterprise are the opposite. Think about it -- if private enterprise fails to produce what consumers want or fails to return a profit to investors it goes out of business. The government does not understand the need to satisfy consumers or investors because it does not produce anything. It just keeps consuming our tax dollars which we like sheep, just keep turning over to the bureaucrats to spend. When the government wants to save money it shuts down like Chicago‘s city hall did yesterday. When private enterprise wants to make more money it works overtime. When the voters conclude that the public treasury has become a public trough then they will send to Washington, D.C. only those who will get them as many freebies as they can and our constitutionally guaranteed values of private enterprise and private property will be gone forever. If you want more of something, make it profitable and un-tax it and it will grow and flourish. If you want less of something let the government regulate it and cap its costs and it will require taxpayer subsidies to stay alive.
2018-04-24 at 17:16:41
From Ernest Hemingway
War is no longer made by simply analysed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule. And we in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
2018-04-23 at 16:56:47
More From Cousin Lucky
Both Governor Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio are disgraceful pandering politicians who show the real facade of the democratic party!!
President Trump is correct in his statement that African-Americans, and the communities that they live within, have been hood-winked for many years by the democratic party!!
Donald Trump is not perfect but African-Americans should abandon the democratic party ASAP and find other political avenues that make sense!!
A commitment to logic and integrity are not things that the democratic party admires or respects in any person of color!!
2018-04-22 at 18:09:51
More From Thomas Paine
The American constitutions were to liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.
2018-04-19 at 15:40:07
From Herbert Spencer
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.
2018-04-12 at 16:51:09
More From Ludwig von Mises
Modern war is merciless, it does not spare pregnant women or infants; it is indiscriminate killing and destroying. It does not respect the rights of neutrals. Millions are killed, enslaved, or expelled from the dwelling places in which their ancestors lived for centuries. Nobody can foretell what will happen in the next chapter of this endless struggle. This has little to do with the atomic bomb. The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
2018-04-06 at 16:44:22
More From Cousin Lucky
The " average United States citizen " is not looking for " leadership "; the average citizen idolizes the public figures willing to say the things in public that they only " think about privately "!!
Execute the illegals, Execute the drug addicts, Execute the minorities, etc. etc. etc. will get you into public office!
Execute the bankers, Execute the stockbrokers, Execute the filthy rich, etc. etc. etc. will get you into public office!
Logic, truth, and other forms of sensible expression are kept in the closed closets and under the rugs because they do not " jerk anyones knees "!!
Human Beings are a very dysfunctional species as evidenced worldwide!!
2018-04-05 at 20:26:58