You don’t get to pick the day you need your gun. Someone else gets to pick that day and they will only tell you at the last minute.
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Thomas Sowell
Government spending is often said to be beneficial to the economy, as the money disbursed is spent and re-spent, creating jobs, raising incomes, and generating tax revenues in the process. But usually if that same government money had remained in the hands of the taxpayers from whom it came, they too would have spent it, and it would still have been re-spent, creating jobs, raising incomes, and generating tax revenues in the process.
Friday Quote – Larry Niven
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He’s entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been waited, you’re in violation.
Friday Quote – Tyrion Lannister (George R.R. Martin)
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar; you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Friday Quote – KrisAnne Hall
If exercising my right to keep and bear arms, my right to freedom of speech, or my right to religious liberty makes you uncomfortable, just remember… The exercise of rights is only uncomfortable to two classes of people – tyrants and slaves. Take a moment to classify yourself.
Friday Quote – P.J. O’Rourke
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats.
Friday Quote – Murray Rothbard
It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.
Friday Quote – KrisAnne Hall
If society is honest and historically accurate, the only question that has any relevance to the gun control debate is, “Do you trust those in government, now and forever in the future, to not take your life, liberty, or property through the force of government?” If the answer to that question is “no,” the gun control debate is over.
Friday Quote – Fredrich Hayek
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes, necessarily, the supreme rule.
Friday Quote – H.L. Mencken
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.
This was about Prohibition, but it seems eerily accurate about the War on Drugs.