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2012 February 10
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"The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government
and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end." |
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"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars:
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." |
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2012 February 09
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"What has always made the state a hell on earth
has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven." |
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"We are not liberated until we liberate others. So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves." |
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2012 February 08
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"In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will." |
"When we compare the laws made today and the method and purpose of their making, with those of the past, we find them to be in perfect harmony. It was the law and custom of the past to provide for a class of idlers, it was customary for the powerful to enslave the weak, for the rich to rob the poor, for the unscrupulous to make laws in their own interests, even as it is the law and custom today. Surely it must be evident that law does not have its basis in justice, but rather in custom. To both law and custom, justice is a total stranger." |
"The superior man understands what is right.
The inferior man understands what is popular." |
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2012 February 07
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"Welfare rights are pseudo-rights: They rely on the force of law to take private property for the use of others without compensation and without consent. Public charity is forced charity; it is not a virtue but a vice." |
"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks." |
"[N]o one’s ever been able to show me any
difference between democracy and brute force.
It’s just a majority ganging up on a minority with
the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred." |
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2012 February 06
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"The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned -- the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach -- is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!." |
"Let Mr. Madison tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people? Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse." |
"[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress]
to attend to what generosity and humanity require,
but to what the Constitution and their duty require." |
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