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More From Ron Paul
It is unfortunate that while many are quick to demand that guns be taken away from peaceful Americans, they do not seem to have much to say about guns when they are in the hands of government authorities shooting innocent people.
If we need any gun control, it is to get control of the guns in the hands of thousands of government employees who use them against innocent people with impunity.
2018-02-24 at 12:21:56
More From Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
2018-02-22 at 13:22:15
From George Washington
The best and only safe road to honor,glory and true dignity is JUSTICE.
2018-02-13 at 12:54:12
From Justice Robert H. Jackson, Brinegar v. United States
Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government. Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart.
2018-02-12 at 14:34:33
More From Ron Paul
In the meantime, be skeptical of both political parties. With few exceptions they are not protecting liberty but promoting its opposite.
2018-02-10 at 13:41:51
More From Alexis de Tocqueville
Next to the general idea of virtue, I know of no idea more beautiful than that of rights, and, indeed, it would be more accurate to say that the two ideas are indistinguishable. The idea of rights is none other than the idea of virtue introduced into the world of politics.
2018-02-09 at 15:12:41
From George S. Schuyler
The tragedy of so many intellectuals in the contemporary world is that while opposing extreme forms of totalitarianism, they are themselves half-totalitarian; that is to say, they express a desire for a society which is half-controlled, half-regimented, half-planned, part capitalist, and part socialist. This strange hybrid they will find (indeed, have found) to be a Frankenstein monster which, ironically, they have a great responsibility for creating.
2018-02-07 at 13:17:13
From John Locke
Should a robber break into my house, and, with a dagger at my throat, make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? Just such a title by his sword has an unjust conqueror who forces me into submission. The injury and the crime is equal, whether committed by the wearer of a crown or some petty villain.
2018-02-05 at 13:26:22
From Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
2018-02-05 at 13:25:12
More From Alexis de Tocqueville
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?
2018-02-03 at 00:20:09
From Louis Dembitz Brandeis
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
2018-02-03 at 00:18:02
More From Ludwig von Mises
There are circumstances which make the consumption of capital unavoidable. A costly war cannot be financed without such a damaging measure....There may arise situations in which it may be unavoidable to burn down the house to keep from freezing, but those who do that should realize what it costs and what they will have to do without later on.
2018-01-30 at 15:32:01
From James Madison
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
2018-01-23 at 12:36:04
From James Mussatti
Our most formidable fortress of defense in time of stress still remains the Constitution of the United States. But it is only as good as our understanding and defense of the purpose for which it was drafted. Eternal vigilance and personal responsibility are still the price of human liberty.
2018-01-16 at 14:46:31
From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
2018-01-15 at 21:41:52