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2014 October 03
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"A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies." |
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil,
and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." |
"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." |
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2014 October 02
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"Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth." |
"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him." |
"The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." |
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2014 October 01
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"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." |
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is." |
"Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know." |
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2014 September 30
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"Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic.
We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence." |
"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed..." |
"I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic -- it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out." |
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2014 September 29
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"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." |
"What occurs to me in reading their book is that the new American approach to social control is so much more sophisticated and pervasive that it really deserves a new name. It isn't just propaganda any more, it's 'prop-agenda'. It's not so much the control of what we think, but the control of what we think about. When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'. " |
"In the current political vocabulary, ‘need’ means wanting to get someone else’s money.
‘Greed,’ which used to mean what “need” now means, has come to mean wanting to keep your own.
‘Compassion’ means the politician’s willingness to arrange the transfer." |
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