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2012 May 18
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"America is at that awkward stage.
It's too late to work within the system,
but too early to shoot the bastards.
On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far
that polite political action is about as
useless as a miniskirt in a convent." |
"The American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also." |
"There is no maxim, in my opinion,
which is more liable to be misapplied, and which,
therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current,
that the interest of the majority
is the political standard of right and wrong." |
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2012 May 17
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"Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and
in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high
with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law
and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and
the like." |
"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress." |
"There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty,
only a long staircase where each step down
must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." |
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2012 May 16
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"Politics must be the battle of the principles...
the principle of liberty against the principle of force." |
"No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session." |
"Useless laws weaken necessary laws." |
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2012 May 15
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"What orators lack in depth they make up for in length." |
"In order to become the master,
the politician poses as the servant." |
"Nothing can so alienate a voter
from the political system as
backing a winning candidate." |
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2012 May 14
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"Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings." |
"Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government
from running amuck by hamstringing it." |
"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox,
decided only to be undecided,
resolved to be irresolute,
adamant for drift,
solid for fluidity,
all-powerful to be impotent." |
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