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"I have become more and more irritated by the skill of those on the Left in labelling any event of unreason or violence as being the work of "the far Right", and the foolishness of us on the Right for letting them get away with it." - Norman Tebbit. |
"Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future" - Ayn Rand. |
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery. |
"It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization - is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct." - Herbert Spencer. |
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -C.S. Lewis. |
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." - Leo Tolstoy. |
"You filled my head with horse poop and atheism, and all these years I thought I was unteachable!" - Bart Simpson. |
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"It is to secure these rights that we resort to government at all." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law," because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"What more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?...a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, 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." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"The minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"The pillars of our prosperity are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"We have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious...it might be much simplified to the relief of those who maintain it." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, 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...is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" - Thomas Jefferson. |
"It [is] ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than...his neighbors ...This would be slavery, and not that liberty...for the preservation of which our government has been charged." - Thomas Jefferson. |
"Democracies listen to the relatively libertarian rich far more than they listen to the absolutely statist non-rich ... Democracy as we know it is bad enough. Democracy that really listened to all the people would be an authoritarian nightmare." - Bryan Caplan. |
A man who looses a battle with his king may be forgiven, but a man who wins such a battle is doomed. - Ken Follett (Pillars of the Earth). |
"No man is a leader until his appointment has been ratified in the hearts and minds of his men" - Unknown - The Infantry Handbook. |
"Incoming fire has the right of way" - US Marine adage. |
"I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Etienne de Grellet (Quaker missionary). |
"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish." - J.R.R. Tolkien. |
"I think celebrities should basically shut their pie holes and do what they do best-act, sing, tap dance, juggle balls, and all that kind of stuff" - Gene Simmons. |
"Conscience goes through the stomach" - old Romanian adage. |
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