What government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms, and killing people. It’s not good at much else.
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Colion Noir
If you don’t feel the need to carry a gun because you believe the government will keep you safe, why do you care if I or anyone else decides to carry a gun? If anyone tries to harm you, the government will stop it right? Where is your faith in government?
Friday Quote – H.L. Mencken
As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach into their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.
Friday Quote- Breda Fallon
Carry your gun. It’s a lighter burden than regret.
Friday Quote – H.L. Mencken
I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman’s club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
Friday Quote – Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of Constitution.
Friday Quote – Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Friday Quote – Thucydides
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
I can think of several times when the silos between fields resulted in failures in both. Economics and politics is the first that come to mind.
Friday Quote – Thomas Sowell
Many colleges claim that they develop “leaders.” Often, that means turning out graduates who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. There are already too may people like that, and they are a menace to everyone else’s freedom.
Friday Quote – Marcus Tullius Cicero
The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease.