Thoughts
From Albert Einstein
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
2017-04-13 at 14:27:53
From Jacob G. Hornberger
The United States government should stop spying on everyone. The best way to accomplish that is by dismantling, not reforming, the Cold War-era national security establishment and restoring a constitutional republic to our land, one that operates in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Independence and within the confines of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
2017-04-12 at 14:41:16
From Marty Rubin
If you can abuse your power you have too much.
2017-04-11 at 15:07:37
From Suzy Kassem
Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone!!
Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in!!
2017-04-11 at 15:08:44
From John W. Whitehead
Waging endless wars abroad (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Syria) is not making America--or the rest of the world--any safer, it is certainly not making America great again, and it is undeniably digging the United States deeper into debt.
2017-04-10 at 19:47:21
More From Cousin Lucky
Sooner or later President Trumps ill advised foreign adventures are going to bring " serious blowback " upon the ordinary people of the United States; and make World War III an eventuality!!
2017-04-09 at 03:54:27
From Charles Johnson
Liberty has nothing to do with national interests. It is about the individual. It concerns the liberty to live your own life, to pursue your own livelihood, and to come and go as you please to anywhere that is open to you or anywhere you are invited to go.– Charles Johnson
2017-04-09 at 03:53:34
From Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems!! "I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked, and rightly so, What about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation was not using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own United States government."
2017-04-06 at 14:24:22
From Alexis de Tocqueville
The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
2017-04-05 at 12:45:19
From Susan Neiman
"We the people" should have learned early on that a government that repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, spies, kills, maims, enslaves, breaks the laws, overreaches its authority, and abuses its power at almost every turn can not be trusted.
2017-04-04 at 19:01:12
From Percy Andreae
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal?
2017-04-04 at 14:19:46
From The Reflections Of Chamfort
The net result of thirty or forty centuries of intellectual and physical effort has been to deliver three hundred million people all round the globe into the hands of some thirty or so despots, mainly ignorant idiots, each controlled by three or four stupid scoundrels. So what can we think of mankind? And what can we expect to see in the future?
2017-04-03 at 18:09:14
More From Cousin Lucky
Unfortunately, there are way too many people who feel that they have the right to " OWN " other human beings and dictate their lives!!
2017-04-01 at 12:15:20
From Norman Thomas
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.
2017-03-31 at 11:54:33
From Laurence M. Vance
The nonaggression principle is designed to prohibit someone from infringing upon the liberty of another. It is the core premise of the philosophy of libertarianism. Aggression is theft, fraud, the initiation of nonconsensual violence, or the threat of nonconsensual violence. The initiation of aggression against the person or property of others is always wrong. Violence is justified only against violence. No violence may be used against a non-aggressor. Force is justified only in defense or retaliation, but is neither essential nor required: You can chase a burglar away instead of shooting him. Force must also be proportional: You may not kill someone just because he walks across your lawn.
2017-03-30 at 22:58:07