Thoughts
From Author L. Neil Smith
"The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists --or ever existed, or ever will exist-- is a kleptocracy, meaning ‘"rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce. If the taxpayer-voters will not willingly fork over to end poverty, then maybe they will cough up to fight drugs or terrorism. Conflicting ideologies, as presently constituted, are nothing more than a cover for what is really going on, like the colors of competing gangs."
2017-03-13 at 19:42:37
From William Somerset Maugham
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that, if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.
2017-03-09 at 15:22:06
More From Cousin Lucky
The more factual information the United States public learns about the actual filthy " behind the scenes " operations of our devilish government; the more the public will seek to change it!!
2017-03-08 at 21:47:21
From Patrick Henry
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
2017-03-07 at 11:35:41
From George Carlin
"Rights are not rights if someone can take them away. They are privileges. That is all we have ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter. Sooner or later, the people in this country are gonna realize the government .. does not care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety.. It is interested in its own power. That is the only thing. Keeping it and expanding it wherever possible."
2017-03-06 at 20:14:10
From Maxwell Anderson
Life is infinitely less important than freedom. A free man has a value to himself and perhaps to his time; a ward of the state is useless to himself -- useful only as so many foot-pounds of energy serving those who manage to set themselves above him.
2017-03-06 at 14:17:53
From Hannah Arendt reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann
"The triumph of the S.S. demands that the tortured victim allow himself to be led to the noose without protesting, that he renounce and abandon himself to the point of ceasing to affirm his identity. And it is not for nothing. It is not gratuitously, out of sheer sadism, that the S.S. men desire his defeat. They know that the system which succeeds in destroying its victim before he mounts the scaffold . . . is incomparably the best for keeping a whole people in slavery."
2017-03-03 at 11:27:15
From William Ernest Hocking
The liberty of going wrong is the seamy side of the priceless privilege of going right by free choice rather than by compulsion.
2017-03-03 at 11:25:18
From Thomas Merton
We make ourselves real by telling the truth. Man can hardly forget that he needs to know the truth, for the instinct to know is too strong in us to be destroyed. But he can forget how badly he also needs to tell the truth. We cannot know truth unless we ourselves are conformed to it. We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true by manifesting the truth as we see it.
2017-03-02 at 12:00:38
From Daniel Webster
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
2017-03-01 at 12:19:16
From F. A. Harper
Once a right to collective looting has been substituted for the right of each person to have whatever he has produced, it is not at all surprising to find the official dispenser deciding that it is right for them to loot the loot -- for a " worthy " purpose, of course.
2017-02-28 at 14:02:17
From W. N. Ewer
I gave my life for freedom -- this I know; for those who bade me fight told me so.
2017-02-27 at 13:53:05
From Jason Sorens
Because doing good and helpful things for people is not a duty of justice, you can not force people to be good and helpful. You can force people not to steal or murder, because not stealing and not murdering are duties of justice. We can enforce duties of justice.
2017-02-25 at 12:30:13
From Andrei Sakharov
Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.
2017-02-24 at 13:17:12
More From James Madison
It is not certain that with this aid alone "possession of arms", they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will, and direct the national force; and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned, in spite of the legions which surround it.
2017-02-23 at 12:31:55