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2012 June 01
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"Let us recollect that peace or war
will not always be left to our option;
that however moderate or unambitious we may be,
we cannot count upon the moderation, or
hope to extinguish the ambition of others. ...
The best we can hope for concerning the people
at large is that they be properly armed." |
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2012 May 31
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"The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty." |
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2012 May 30
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"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war
as soldiers are in finishing it." |
"I hate it when they say,
“He gave his life for his country.”
Nobody gives their life for anything.
We steal the lives of these kids.
We take it away from them.
They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country.
We kill them." |
"When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists." |
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2012 May 29
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"... any broad unlimited power to hold laws unconstitutional because they offend what this Court conceives to be the ‘conscience of our people’ ... was not given by the Framers, but rather has been bestowed on the Court by the Court." |
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and
intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished
from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and
the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people,
in order to betray them." |
"Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or
the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to
produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the
immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims:
they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer,
defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of
behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing
intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of
betterment." |
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2012 May 28
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"The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny." |
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"You may not be interested in war,
but war is very interested in you." |
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