|
2019 February 01
|
"They can only set free men free ...
And there is no need of that:
Free men set themselves free." |
"The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great.
They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength;
ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition.
This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind;
and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace,
as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs,
and the power to assert the former or redress the latter.
I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government,
Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws,
Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe." |
"The 4th Amendment
and the personal rights it secures
have a long history.
At the very core stands
the right of a man
to retreat into his own home
and there be free
from unreasonable
governmental intrusion." |
|
2019 January 31
|
"The worth of a state, in the long run,
is the worth of the individuals composing it." |
"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe." |
"Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty." |
|
2019 January 30
|
"Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it we'd be at the mercy of monsters. It is about time that we understood that the U.S. government does more to endanger the American people than any imagined monsters around the world…by pursuing its Grand Foreign Policy of meddling anywhere and everywhere." |
"Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked." |
"We may safely rely on the disposition of the State legislatures
to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority." |
|
2019 January 29
|
"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects
from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the
reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal
principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty,
and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and
assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote;
they depend on the outcome of no elections." |
"The poorest man may in his cottage,
bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown.
It may be frail, its roof may shake;
the wind may blow through it;
the storm may enter; the rain may enter;
but the King of England may not enter;
all his force dares not cross the threshold
of the ruined tenement." |
"The people are Sovereign. ...
at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people;
and they are truly the sovereigns of the country,
but they are sovereigns without subjects...
with none to govern but themselves;
the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens,
and as joint tenants in the sovereignty." |
|
2019 January 28
|
"All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people." |
"The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders." |
"The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants." |
|
|
|
