Got Liberty Quote?

[MTPorcupine3]

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the
very definition of slavery. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

[Friday]

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." -- George Stephanopolous, accidentally speaking truth on behalf of President Clinton during Clinton's first term

[Friday]

"There are two kinds of people, those who want to be left alone and those who won't leave them alone." Doreen Hannes

[thinkliberty]

"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'.
It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist
sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men
striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification
of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the
greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." - Herbert Hoover

[MTPorcupine3]

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the last refuge of political and economic opportunists."

- Ernest Hemingway

[MTPorcupine3]

"Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?"

-- Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
(Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.)

[Friday]

 Set aside justice, then, and what are kingdoms but great bands of brigands? For what are brigands' bands but little kingdoms? For in brigandage the hands of the underlings are directed by the commander, the confederacy of them is sworn together, and the pillage is shared by law among them. And if those ragamuffins grow up to be able enough to keep forts, build habitations, possess cities, and conquer adjoining nations, then their government is no longer called brigandage, but graced with the eminent name of a kingdom, given and gotten not because they have left their practices but because they use them without danger of law. Elegant and excellent was that pirate's answer to the great Macedonian Alexander, who had taken him; the king asking him how he durst molest the seas so, he replied with a free spirit: "How darest thou molest the whole earth? But because I do it only with a little ship, I am called brigand: thou doing it with a great navy art called emperor."

— St. Augustine, City of God, Book IV [410 A.D.]

[MTPorcupine3]

"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so
much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."
-Christopher Morley, writer
(1890-1957)

[MTPorcupine3]

"History is a vast early warning system."
-Norman Cousins, editor and author
(1915-1990)

[MTPorcupine3]

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." -Patrick Henry, revolutionary (1736-1799)

[Lloyd Danforth]

"Making government larger is never the answer.............unless the question is really, really stupid!"

Dan somebody, from CATO, this morning.

[PattyLee loves dogs]

Expecting the government to fight the deficit is like expecting the Mafia to fight crime. – Anonymous 


Frederic Bastiat "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." 

[MTPorcupine3]

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government. So let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so that the second will not become the legal version of the first." - Thomas Jefferson

[MTPorcupine3]

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

- Ayn Rand

[Lloyd Danforth]

Liberty is not the Daughter, but the Mother of Order.

Pierre Proudhon