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“Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
The important distinction so well understood in America between a Constitution established by the people and unalterable by the government, and a law established by the government and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country. – James Madison, Federalist Paper 53
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing." – Thomas Jefferson
“Only in Washington can a budget that spends more than it did the year before, with a larger deficit, be portrayed as ‘cutting.’” – Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity … Read more
And he won a Nobel Peace Prize? I cannot think of a prior war in which all the following were true at the same time: We claimed a humanitarian mission on behalf of rebels about whom we knew nothing; started bombing without congressional approval and without majority support of the American people; sought sanction from … Read more
"Can you imagine how many wars we’d be in if President Obama hadn’t gotten the Nobel Peace Prize?" -Jay Leno, comedian Back to "cowboy diplomacy"? (H/T: Instapundit)
The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own. – Nicolás Gómez Dávila (aka Don Colacho) (H/T: Don Colacho’s Aphorisms)
From last night, Herman Cain has this to say in response to those that denigrate the Founding Fathers for not living up to their own words: "Our Founders set the bar higher than themselves so that future generations could strive to and eventually reach that high bar of freedom that was not possible for them. … Read more
" Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage." – Robert Louis Stevenson (H/T: Jim Bender)
A government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And [America’s Founding Fathers] knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. – Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing (H/T: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism, Kevin Williamson)
“I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men’s rights” – Abraham Lincoln How apropo, given this.
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. – Ronald Reagan, President of the United States (H/T: Cathy G.)
This is an eternal blind spot for environmentalists: people respond to incentives, and they won’t necessarily respond to regulations in the way that regulators think they will. That’s how the Endangered Species Act led landowners to destroy habitat to prevent the government from making their land worthless. That’s how incentives for electric cars wound up … Read more
On socialism: The socialists want to regenerate humans, to liberate them. They conclude that having forcibly changed the economic way humans live they will achieve their goals. But humans are transformed not from external reasons but only from moral changes…. Lacking any spiritual basis for human brotherhood, the socialists must resort to compulsion to establish … Read more
Look forward, never back – looking back while moving forwards increases the probability to fall or trip. Remember where you’ve gone so you don’t have to look back, keep your eyes forward to focus on where you want to go. Life is what you make of it, and I’m determined to make mine a pleasant … Read more
As you go to vote today, remember this: "whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." – Ronald Reagan, President of the United States … Read more
Isn’t it amazing how these same people that were thrilled by the idea of America electing as president a junior senator from Illinois with little qualifications for the most important office in the land are now scared to death about who may be going to Congress next January? Oozes with hypocrisy, doesn’t it? -Noel Sheppard, … Read more
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.
One of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and its laws are consecrated, is lest the temporary possessors and life renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity, should act as if they were the entire masters; that they … Read more