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2006 August 04
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"If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag,
sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of
July speakers – normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to
comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free,
Americans who have been lulled away into a false security." |
"The fundamental principle is this:
No matter how worthwhile an end may be,
if there is no constitutional authority to pursue it,
then the federal government must step aside and
leave the matter to the states or to private parties.
The president and Congress can proceed only from
constitutional authority, not from good intentions alone.
If Congress thinks it necessary to expand its powers,
the Framers crafted an amendment process for that purpose.
But too often, rather than follow that process,
Congress has disregarded the limits set by the Constitution and
gutted our frontline defense against overweening federal government." |
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." |
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2006 August 03
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"If politicians don't respect the law,
why should citizens respect politicians?" |
"The test for whether one is living in a police state is
that those who are charged with enforcing the law
are allowed to break the laws with impunity." |
"Love your country, but never trust its government." |
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2006 August 02
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"Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished
in England during and after the Star Chamber.
It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world.
Under it criticism of government is viewed
as defamation and punished as a crime." |
"Every attempt to gag the free expression
of thought is an unsocial act against society.
That is why judges and juries who try to enforce
such laws make themselves ridiculous." |
"Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times." |
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2006 August 01
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"The jury has the right to judge both the law
as well as the fact in controversy." |
"To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law)
when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they
defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.
Tis treason not against one single man, but against the state - against
the whole body politic; tis treason against mankind; tis treason
against Common sense; tis treason against God; And this impious
principle lays the foundation for justifying all the tyranny and
oppression that ever any prince was guilty of. The people know for what
end they set up and maintain their governors, and they are the proper
judges when governors execute their trust as they ought to do it." |
"The jury in all criminal cases,
shall be the judges of the law and the facts." |
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2006 July 31
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"Laws provide against injury from others, but not from ourselves." |
"It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve." |
"No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law.
When the secular is called in to sustain an idea,
whether new or old, it is always a bad idea,
and not infrequently it is downright idiotic." |
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