Quote of the day

Taxman · #1 07-06-2007, 01:40 PM

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution. – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861

Taxman · #2 07-07-2007, 03:28 AM

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, *******ized form of illegitimate government. – James Madison

Taxman · #3 07-08-2007, 03:08 PM

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -
Barry Goldwater, acceptance speech as Republican candidate for President, 1963

Taxman · #4 07-09-2007, 08:14 PM

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but the newspapers. – Thomas Jefferson

Taxman · #5 07-12-2007, 09:59 PM

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O'Rourke

Taxman · #6 08-07-2007, 06:52 PM

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it. – William Penn (1644-1718), Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims

Taxman · #7 08-21-2007, 03:23 PM

Libertarians believe the answer to America's political problems is the same commitment to freedom that earned America its greatness: a free-market economy and the abundance and prosperity it brings; a dedication to civil liberties and personal freedom that marks this country above all others; and a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace, and free trade as prescribed by America's founders. – The Libertarian Party: A Short History, 2000

Taxman · #8 08-21-2007, 03:24 PM

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like. – Alan Dershowitz, in The Conceptual Foundations of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in Religion and Reason, 82 Mich L. Rev., 204 (Dan Gifford), 1995

napieed · #9 10-29-2007, 01:50 PM

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God. --Norman Vincent Peale

Fuzzball · #10 10-29-2007, 02:07 PM

Great Quote napieed, I'm a huge fan of Norman Vincent Peale.