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2013 March 08
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"The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason." |
"Every man – in the development of his own personality –
has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions.
Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is
an affront to the dignity of man,
a negation of man’s essential nature." |
"We have a natural right
to make use of our pens as of our tongue,
at our peril, risk and hazard." |
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2013 March 07
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"The media, far from being a conspiracy
to dull the political sense of the people,
could be viewed as a conspiracy
to disguise the extent of political indifference." |
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"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." |
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2013 March 06
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"Violent resistance against the power of the state
is the last resort of the minority in its effort
to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ...
The citizen must not be so narrowly
circumscribed in his activities that,
if he thinks differently from those in power,
his only choice is either to perish or
to destroy the machinery of state." |
"The issue isn't gun control but state control --
obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ...
Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others
end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties." |
"Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother." |
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2013 March 05
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"The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State,
including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers,
is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State." |
"It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. ... it does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance." |
"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State." |
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2013 March 04
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"It is a general popular error to suppose
the loudest complainers for the public
to be the most anxious for its welfare." |
"There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds." " |
"It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...
that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted
to either his own devices or his own thoughts." |
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