Monday, August 27, 2012
Liberty Quotes
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.B5DE
"A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment." -- Rex Curry Source: letter to the Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 5, 1996
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Rex.Curry.Quote.C8BD
"[W]hensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President Source: Kentucky Resolves
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.F329
Founder's Quote
"We
fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon
the earth for honest men to live in." --Thomas Paine, The Crisis, no. 4,
1777
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
American Minute with Bill Federer August 26 - "Women can vote!" 19th Amendment
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Liberty Quotes
"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim -- when he defends himself -- as a criminal." -- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848 Source: The Law
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frederic.Bastiat.Quote.6B82
"No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being..." -- Benjamin Constant [Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque] (1767-1830) Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician. Source: Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments (1810) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003), p. 401-402.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Constant.Quote.5EEE
"[G]overnment theft of private money and redistribution by a government elite is communism not democracy. ... Communism has already been tried for over 70 years, and it doesn't work because people work to support themselves, not their neighbors. When the rewards are confiscated and redistributed to others, people produce less or stop producing altogether. The quantity of "goods in common" declines until the system finally collapses and everybody is hungry, not just "the poor." Then totalitarianism steps in to force people to produce (ask the Russians, the Poles, the Estonians)." -- Don Hull Source: The UnReported News, August 27, 1995
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Don.Hull.Quote.C6A9
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Founders Quote
"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. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and
advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."
--Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, 1774
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