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"It is your moral duty and obligation to disobey an unjust law!"

Accountability - The government is too big and spends too much, and Congress and unelected bureaucrats have become so entrenched to be unresponsive to the public they are supposed to serve. The GOP contract restores accountability to government.

Further, we will instruct the House Budget Committee to report to the floor and we will work to enact additional budget savings, beyond the budget cuts specifically included in the legislation described above, to ensure that the Federal budget deficit will be less than it would have been without the enactment of these bills.

Opportunity - The American Dream is out of the reach of too many families because of burdensome government regulations and harsh tax laws. The GOP contract restores the American dream.

Responsibility - Bigger government and more federal programs usurp personal responsibility from families and individuals. The GOP contract restores a proper balance between government and personal responsibility.

FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;

SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;

THIRD, THE CITIZEN LEGISLATURE ACT, a first-ever vote on term limits to replace career politicians with citizen legislators.

FORTH, THE COMMON SENSE LEGAL REFORM ACT, "Loser pays" laws, reasonable limits on punitive damages and reform of product liability laws to stem the endless tide of litigation.

FIFTH, THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT, a balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out-of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses.

SIXTH, THE NATIONAL SECURITY RESTORATION ACT, No U.S. troops under U.N. command and restoration of the essential parts of our national security funding to strengthen our national defense and maintain our credibility around the world.

SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty .

"I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working. I have never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below. Westbrook Pegler, a guttersnipe, is a gentleman compared to you. You can take that as more of an insult than as a reflection on your ancestry."

"If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused." I notice too, that the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear: `This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them from our throats.'

"It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies."

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

"The strongest reason for the People to retain the Right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

‘‘...once the individual and his rights become subservient to the state's collectively imposed goals, society takes the first step down the slippery slope that leads towards the secret police, the Gestapo, the Gulag, and the concentration camp.’’

"This is living!" "I gotta be me!" "Ain't we got fun!" It's all there in the Declaration of Independence. We are the only nation in the world based on happiness. Search as you will the Maga Charta, the "Communist Manifesto", the Ten Commandments, the Analects of Confucius, Plato's "Republic", the New Testament or the UN Charter, and find me any happiness at all.

"To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

...a leading textbook publisher recently corrected the misinformation about the Second Amendment [that it gives people the right to bear arms] previously included in its publications. And the newly written textbooks will soon be used in 11 state school systems. During this next year, we will be communicating with every major textbook publisher...we will expand this campaign to include reference works, government publications and other materials.

...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights.

...democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces.

...freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society...as freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of Nature.

...I did "not" go to see the Earth Day demonstration in the Mall. Instead, I spent the day calling up environmentally minded friends and asking them, "If the outdoors are so swell, how come the homeless aren't more fond of it?" I wanted to be the one person to say a discouraging word on Earth Day – a lone voice, not crying in the wilderness, but chortling in the rec room.

...if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens.

...if the Perennially Indignant think pollution is the fault only of Reaganites wallowing in capitalist greed, then they should go take a deep breath in Smolensk or a long drink from the river Volga.

...Laywers are what make people free...

...many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen.

...our strategy must be to antagonize them into striking the first blow, the classic 'Pearl Harbor' maneuver in game theory, a great advantage in Weltpolitick. (Prof) Robert A. Heinlein (1907 - 1988) "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress", 1966

...remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head.

...the jury in all criminal cases, shall be the judges of the law and the facts.

...the only purpose for which power can be rightfully excercised over any member of a civilized community against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrent...

...the rise of fascism and nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

...there are more instances of the abridgement of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

...there is no point in our ancestors speaking to us unless we know how to listen.

...this government, swollen and arrogent with pelf, goes butting into our business...It checks the amount of tropical oils in our snack foods, tells us what kind of gasoline we can buy for our cars and how fast we can drive them, bosses us around about retirement, education, and what's on TV; counts our noses and asks fresh questions about who's still living at home and how many bathrooms we have; decides whether the door to our office or shop should have steps or a wheelchair ramp; decrees the sex and complexion of the people we hire there; lectures us on safe sex; dictates what we can sniff, smoke, and swallow; and waylays young men, ships them to distant places, and tells them to shoot people they don't even know.

...to disarm the people (is) the best and most effective way to enslave them..

...to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly antirepublican principle...

...we are certainly more likely to make inroads against those attitudes and make progress toward actual equality if we learn to view one another as human beings, not as blacks, African-Americans, WASPs, Jews, Native Americans, Asians, or Latinos.

...with barely time to hose the Dukakis sludge out of my tape recorder and scrape the talk of Democratic-party unity off the bottom of my loafers – I flew to that other oleo-high colonic, the Republican convention, and event with the intellectual content of a Guns n' Roses lyric attended by every ofey insurance broker in America who owns a pair of white shoes...

...world war will make whole reactionary peoples disappear from the face of the earth. This, too, is progress. Obviously, this cannot be fulfilled without crushing some delicate national flower.

..but the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any...

"If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson."

1. Tax increases are always good, always necessary, and always only on the rich.
2. Tax cuts are always bad, always harmful, and always only for the rich.
...if there were a rule three, it would be "see rules 1 & 2".

13% of US burglaries take place while the owner is at home. 50% of burglaries in Japan and England happen while the owner is at home. Burglars in the US spend over twice as long on the average casing homes. Burglars in the US asked say this is because they are afraid of being shot.

1935 will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future!     

40% of the "poor" in the US own their own homes. 80% possess telephones and color TVs. The majority have cars. The average "poor" person in the US has twice as much living space as the average (not "poor") person of Japan. 22,000 "poor" households in the US have a heated swimming pool or Jacuzzi.

45 homeless people die every minute.      – Mitch Snyder
For that to be true, some 23 million homeless people would die in America each year.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on Earth... and what no just government should refuse.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

A competent and self-confident person is not capable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

A despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A government is the only know vessel that leaks from the top.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

A Great Explosion is coming. Productive class Americans are sick of being menaced by laws their parents naively thought were being created to protect them. They're sick of being looted by officials with five and six-digit salaries. Sick of being decimated by one senseless war after another, arranged, conveniently, for almost every generation. Sick of being wooed and cast aside in two- and four- and six-year cycles by public figures they wouldn't trust alone with their children. Doubtless the American productive class have made foolish choices in the past. Doubtless they'll make them again in the future. But in the end, the American productive class will triumph, precisely because they ARE productive, while their enemies are not.

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs,
B is for Basil assaulted by bears.
C is for Clair who wasted away,
D is for Desmond thrown out of the sleigh.
E is for Ernest who choked on a peach,
F is for Fanny, sucked dry by a leech.
G is for George, smothered under a rug,
H is for Hector, done in by a thug.
I is for Ida who drowned in the lake,
J is for James who took lye, by mistake.
K is for Kate who was struck with an axe,
L is for Leo who swallowed some tacks.
M is for Maud who was swept out to sea,
N is for Nevil who died of enui.
O is for Olive, run through with an awl,
P is for Prue, trampled flat in a brawl
Q is for Quinton who sank in a mire,
R is for Rhoda, consumed by a fire.
S is for Susan who parished of fits,
T is for Titas who flew into bits.
U is for Una who slipped down a drain,
V is for Victor, squashed under a train.
W is for Winie, embedded in ice,
X is for Xercies, devoured by mice.
Y is for Yoric whose head was bashed in,
Z is for Zilla who drank too much gin.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A just security to property is not afforded by that government under which arbitrary taxes invade the domestic sanctuaries of the rich, and grind the face of the poor.

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.

A man may be a fool and not know it – but not if he is married.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phase makes it, feminine intuition.

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms.

A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

A neurotic, according to Freud, is a man dominated by unconscious memories, fixated on the past, and incapable of overcoming it; the regular condition of human communities.

A new age of magic interpretation of the world is coming, of interpretation in terms of the will and not of the intelligence. There is no such thing as truth either in the moral or the scientific sense.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what's going on.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A radical is one of whom people say "He goes too far." A conservative, on the other hand, is one who "doesn't go far enough." Then there is the reactionary, "one who doesn't go at all." All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have coined the term "progressive." I should say that a progressive is one who insists upon recognizing new facts as they present themselves-one who adjusts legislation to these new facts.

A right delayed is a right denied.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

A select militia defined as only the privileged class entitled to keep and bear arms was considered an anathema to a free society, in the same way that Americans denounced select spokesmen approved by the government as the only class entitled to the freedom of the press.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

A society is not "free" merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit...A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.

A Strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own interests of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity.

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

Above all he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace, and among a free people. He said, if we were governed by our own consent in the persons of our representatives, he could not imagine of whom we were afraid, or against whom we were to fight; and would hear my opinion, whether a private man's house might not be better defended by himself, his children, and family, than by half a dozen rascals picked up at a venture in the streets, for small wages, who might get an hundred times more by cutting their throats.

Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need The more you earn, the less you keep. And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

According to Arkansas law, Section 4761, Pope's Digest: "No person shall be permitted under any pretext whatever, to come nearer than fifty feet of any door or window of any polling room, from the opening of the polls until the completion of the count and the certification of the returns."

According to documents and interviews, two major tobacco companies gave $65,000 to the Democratic National Committee in May. However, the money wasn't placed in any of the committee's federal campaign accounts here in Washington. Instead, according to records and people familiar with the matter, the money went to state Democratic Party accounts around the country, which receive far less media scrutiny because their financial reports are filed in state capitals.

According to the USGAO report to COngress on the 1990 farm bill, "The government established a wool and mohair price-support program in 1954 ...to encourage domestic wool production in the interst of natural security." Really, it says that. I guess back in the fifties there was this military school of thought that held that in the event of a Soviet attack we could confuse and disorient the enemy by throwing blankets over their heads...

Advertising is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. – William Burroughs A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Agreements to "outlaw" atomic weapons? Swell! Remember the Kellogg Pact? It "outlawed" war.

Aided by a little sophistry on the words "general welfare," [they claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare.

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

All men are created unequal.

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately ... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon ... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

All national institutions of churches, whetehr Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are "up to a point."

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the the cleverness of the few.

All [of the American's] foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.

Although one does not like to be reminded, it is not so many years since the socialist policy of [Nazi Germany] was generally held up to be imitated, just as in more recent Sweden has been the model country to which progressive eyes were directed.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

America is the mockery of the world.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and the most American of the many American excesses.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.

An entrepeneur contributes the great value of his organizational ability, foresight, and management skill. Because value is not "solely" the product of labor, these abilities are extremely valuable. Profits are his just reward for risking capital in an uncertain and changing world.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.

And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that...

And that the Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

And to preserve independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election [choice] between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike. It is its natural manure.

And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Animals have these advantages over man: they have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Another year, another Clinton budget. This one's little different from past plans: It, too, contains tax hikes, especially on those with capital gains ...The data are clear: When levied punitively on the rich and the middle class, tax increases discourage those who are most productive in society from producing.

Any company executive who overcharges the gvoernment more than $5,000,000 will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.

Anybody who wants a tanslation of that, come up after I'm finished...

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not "malum in se", and was "mallum prohibitorum" only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved. - H. Beam Piper, "Lone Star Planet" opa "A Planet For Texans"

Apply yourself, without delay, to the study of the law of nature.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadened the senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.

Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down. Actually, it is wars, or conflicts threatening war, that cause armaments, not the reverse.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property, horrid mischief would ensue were the law abiding deprived of the use of them.

Arms in the hands of citizens [may] be used at individual discretion.. ...in private self-defense...

Arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as property.

As an American, you owe it to yourself to visit the nation's capital, because this is your city, where your government spends trillions of your dollars on dynamic programs such as National Intestinal Blockage Month, adminstered by your government workers in buildings that you can't go into because you don't have a pass. But you can fisit many inspirational tourist sites including... the Tomb of the Unknown Internal Revenue Service Employee Who Is Supposed to Answer the Taxpayer Assistance Hotline.

"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear arms".

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me they must be capable of some other form of labor.

As for Clinton's attitude toward the Haitians, why he's glad to invade their country. He's perfectly willing to shoot Haitians. But let them drive cabs in New York city? Oh no.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

As society has become less intolerant of drugs, people have become less willing to report drug use, even in anonymous surveys.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

As to Jesus of Nazareth...I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.

As to such laws being self-defeating, the awowed purpose of such laws as the Sullivan Act is to keep weapons out of the hands of potential criminals. You are surely aware that the sullivan act and similar acts have never accomplished anything of the sort? That gangsterism flourished under this act? Criminals are never materially handicapped by such rules; the only effect is to disarm the peaceful citizen and put him fully at the mercy of the lawless. Such rules look very pretty on paper; in practice they are as foolish and footless as the attempt of the mice to bell the cat.

As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun...it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind...Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. Never think of taking a book with you...

As to you, sir, treacherous to private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

As, for the safety of soceity, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.

At least I have the decency to die at 13.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

Avoid worriers. They are haters of liberty and loathers of individuals. They wish to politicize everything. Imagine Bill Clinton conducting your love life for you. And watch out, he may be trying to.

Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving.

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

BBSes bring the power of freedom of the press to the average citizen. The only way to keep this power available to the average citizen is an aggressive stance against government meddling in them. The best way to do this is to do our best to make sure the government follows its own rules.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth.

Be silent, wretch, and there not here allow'd That worst of tyrants, a usurping crowd.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any body of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of europe. The supreme power in america cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops. - Noah Webster

Before the development of DDT, 200,000,000 people were stricken by Malaria each year, and 2,000,000 died. In Sri Lanka in 1948, there were 2,800,000 cases per year. DDT reduced this to 17 cases per year by 1963. In 1968, after US environmentalists convinced Sri Lankan officials to stop spraying DDT, there were 1,000,000 cases, 2,500,000 in 1969.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Best of all, ther were hardly any beautiful women at the [Housing Now!] rally. I saw a journalist friend of mine in the Mall, and he and I purused this line of inquiry as assiduously as our happy private lives allow. Practically every female at the march was a bowser. "We're not being sexist here," my friend insisted. "It's not that looks matter per se. It's just that beautiful women are always on the cutting edge of social trends. Remember how many beautiful women were in the anti-war movement twenty years ago? In the yoga classes fifteen years ago? At the discos ten years ago? On Wall Street five years ago? Where the beautiful women are is where the country is headed," said my friend. "And this," he looked around him, "isn't it."

Between a republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

Beware Altruism. It is based on self-deception, which is the root of all evil.

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Bill Clinton played the Social Security card in the November election. That is as cynical as anything the Republicans ever did...they lost the election both politically and ethically...

Blackstone[primary source for the Founders of the US] was firmly convinced that the subjects needed to be armed to defend themselves and to avoid dependence on professional armies, but he also expanded the role of an armed citizenry beyond the individual's own preservation to the preservation of the entire constitutional structure. He dubbed the right of the people to be armed an `auxiliary' right of the subject that served `to protect and maintain inviolate the three great and primary rights, of personal security, personal liberty, and private property'.

Both sides betrayed us on the Communications Decency Act: The Liberals claim that they are for Free Speech; yet Senator Exon, a Democrat, introduced the amendment, and Bill Clinton signed it. The Republicans claim to be for reduced regulatory burden, and getting the government off of our backs; yet the CDA could not have passed without Gingrich and Dole's support.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Businessmen are frightened when they get a call from the IRS or EPA. By the end of my term, I want them to be frightened when they get a call from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

But if anti-self-defense advocates feel prohibiting or confiscating upward of 70 million handguns is justified to save 13 young children's lives, why does saving 381 annually not justify banning swimming pools, or at least prohibiting their proliferation? Is it possible that anti-self-defense fanatics are motivated more by hatred of guns and their owners than by saving lives?

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

By abolishing all private Property communism makes me even more dependent on theirs, on the generality or totality of society...a state of affairs which paralyzes my freedom to act and exerts sovereign authority over me.

By enabling us to make productive use of a particular raw materials, technology determines what constitutes a physical resource.

By making real the threat of civil damages against gun dealers who engage in reckless conduct, we are starting to provide a powerful incentive for dealers to...reevaluate the cost of doing business.

By providing us with new products that change the way in which we live, technology determines what constitutes a need, and hence the nature of consumer demand.

California Congresswoman Maxine Waters (Dem), when an Assemblywoman in California, said on the floor of the Assembly that although it probably wouldn't happen in her lifetime, she wanted a "ban on all guns."

California State Senator Diane Watson (Dem) said in her office she wanted to "get rid of all guns."

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Capitalism is ... a social order favorable to alertness, inventiveness, discovery, and creativity. This means a social order based upon education, research, the freedom to create, and the right to enjoy the fruits of one's own creativity.

Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it...Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

Certainly 'Do as thou wilt is the whole of the law' is correct when looked at properly – in fact, it is a law of nature, not an injunction nor a permission. But it is necessary to remember that it applies to everyone – including lynch mobs. The Universe is what it is, and it never forgives mistakes – not even ignorant ones.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Child: My gravy got in my jello! Parent: Eat it, it all ends up in the same place anyway. Child: Yeah, but I don't have a tongue in my stomach!

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

City of Las Vegas v. Moberg, 82 N.M. 626, 485 P.2d 737, at 738 (NM App. 1971): "It is our opinion that an ordinance may not deny the people the constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms, and to that extent the ordinance under consideration is void."

City officials in Kennesaw,Ga. passed a law in 1982 requiring every household to own a firearm, Householders with criminal records or religious belief were exempted, and no real effort was made to enforce the law. An early report claimed that the residential burglary rate had fallen 89 percent in the first seven months after the law took effect. There were no murders in Kennesaw during that period.

Civilization is hooped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Clinton poses as our national therapist – sympathizing with our every anxiety and offering pseudosolutions to all of them – even while studiously ignoring genuine problems of the federal government, led by his inattention to Medicare and Social Security. Clinton is evasive because he has enormous confidence in his command of language. He thinks he can seduce almost anyone with words. As a result, he constantly disguises disagreeable realities and overstates modest accomplishments. Even his most casual claims need to be tested for truth and relevance...His blab is not his bond.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do you realize that?

Clinton, the man who smoked but didn't inhale, lives and breathes yes and no. He talks right and governs (when he can) left. He talks tough and governs soft. He is, in short, the perfect president for our time. And if he cuts a few ethical corners too, so what?

Close down congress, fire everyone who works for Congress, close down the military, close down foreign aid, close down everything else, and by the year 2012 entitlements and the interest on the debt alone will still be greater than the entire income of the Federal government.

Collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrranical minority such powers as the spanish inquisition never dreamt of.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Communism is inequality...Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Communism is like one big phone company.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Communist countries have not abolished profits, they have merely transferred all profits to the state, which typically uses them to build a huge military apparatus at the expense of consumer production.

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about.... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Communists, Nazis, and more than a few democratically elected leaders of the free world have told us in plain language that their loathsome acts were justified by felicific calculus – the most good for the greatest number.

Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.

CONGRESS shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in Actual Rebellion.

Congressmen should make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

"Conservatives are accustomed to being called fascists and well prepared to defend themselves on that ground. Liberals are used to being called socialists. Those labels can be switched, however, and remain valid and instructive. It also catches them completely unprepared."

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be.

Conventions no longer even determine who's going to run for president. Unvoted-in primaries at weird times of the year in states you've never even heard of take care of that.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Courtroom - A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

Crack is ruining America's inner cities. Crack is killing policement, overburdening courts, and filling jails beyond their capacity. Crack is devastating thousands of families. Crack is putting the lives and well-being of our children at risk.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness.

Criminal lawyers...or is that redundant?

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her child's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseum, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word; equality. But notice the difference: While democracy seeks equality in Liberty, socialism seeks equality in constraint and servitude.

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Discrimination charges were recently filed against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) by Black special agents belonging to the agency. The class-action lawsuit was filed by lawyers of 15 agents on behalf of the 180 other Black agents in the bureau which oversees gun, alcohol and tobacco laws. The charges filed allege that the agency discriminates in hiring, promotions, performance evaluations, discipline, assignments, awards, training and other personnel practices.

Do you agree with Sonny, or Cher?

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker.

Dogs could not be used in the streets in the manner many Jews were treated. One circumstance among others put an end to the ill-usage of the Jews. About the year 1787 Daniel Mendoza, a Jew, became a celebrated boxer and set up a school to teach the art of boxing as a science. The art soon spread among young Jews and they became generally expert at it. The consequence was in a very few years seen and felt too. It was no longer safe to insult a Jew unless he was an old man and alone.

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Drug prohibition advocates like former "drug czar" Bill Bennent claim that drug use can be stamped out if only America has the guts to become a police state.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

Ecology is rather like sex-every new generation likes to think they were the first to discover it.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from teh rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rated higher and which lower – in short, what men should believe and strive for.

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the World-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliché. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

Entrenched belief is never altered by the facts.

Environmentalists don't give a damn about the environment. All they are concerned with is getting more bike paths and Volvos.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous...

Everthing human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Every free man has a right to the use of the press, so he has to the use of his arms.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?

Every secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Everything the government touches turns to crap; It's called the Reverse Midas Touch.

Experience should teach us to be the most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable...A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.

Faith.....Belief without evidence inwhat is told by one sho speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

FDA employees are serious about feat. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trend of the preceeding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies. This is a truth which most people were unwilling to see even when the similarities of many of the repellent features of the internal regimes in comunitst Russia and National Socialist Germany were widely recognized.

Few productive class Americans understand (yet) that they stagger under taxes five times greater than those endured by a medieval European serf. What they do understand is that the harder they work the less they have left – and the less they have to look forward to.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed, and disciplined, and include, according to the past and general usage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments in the community to be avoided.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

For a pure Marxist society to long endure, voluntary exchange between individuals must be abolished.

For America to truly arrive as an integrated society, we have to begin behaving as though we are all Americans; that we have a culture ourselves, and that all of the various cultures that compose our great nation should work toward blending into a harmonious society.

For the people in government, rather than the people who pester it, Washington is an early-rising, hard-working city. It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

Former Soviet Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh told a conference at Princeton University that programs such as the Strategic Defense Initiative accelerated the decline of the Soviet Union.

France had Sullifan-type laws. When the Nazis came, the invaders had only to consult the registration lists at the local gendarmerie in order to round up all the weapons in a district. Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights...

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction-we didn't pass it on to our children in our bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same...We the people must unite, those who have been elected to positions of public trust must show leadership and political courage. My friends the time has come for a second American Revolution.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitleement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights – the `right' to education, the `'right' to health care, the `right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery – hay and a barn for human cattle. There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Freedom is not something that anyone can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life.... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

From a psychological point of view, 'sins' are indispensable in any society organized by priests; they are the actual levers of power, the priest lives on sins; he needs the commission of sins.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

George [Bush] ran one of the great room-temparature political campaigns of all time, saying, basically, "American's had a great eight years." Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation "needs."

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Gloria: Did you know handguns killed 1,500 people last yar? Archie Bunker: Well, little goil, wouldja rather they was pushed out of windows?

Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a dollar and see which will respect you most.

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

God is an elderly...stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men strictly accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well-being of the disadvantaged...God is difficult. God is unsentimental...

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

God made an idiot for practice, then he made a school board.

God wanted to have a holiday, so He asked St. Peter for suggestions on where to go. "Why not go to Jupiter?" asked St. Peter. "No, too much gravity, too much stomping around," said God. "Well, how about Mercury?" "No, it's too hot there." "Okay," said St. Peter, "What about Earth?" "No," said God, "They're such horrible gossips. When I was there 2000 years ago, I had an affair with a Jewish woman, and they're still talking about it."

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified and more agreeable undertakings...

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a trouble-some servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Greenpeace fund-raisers on the subject of global warming are not much different than tribal wizards on the subject of lunar eclipses. "Oh no, the Night Wolf is eating the Moon Virgin. Give me some silver and I'll make him spit her out."

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Guns were 3 times as likely to be used defensively as aggressively and they thwarted crime far more often than they abetted it.

Haggis, n.: Haggis is a kind of stuff black pudding eaten by the Scots and considered by them to be not only a delicacy but fit for human consumption. The minced heart, liver and lungs of a sheep, calf or other animal's inner organs are mixed with oatmeal, sealed and boiled in maw in the sheep's intestinal stomach-bag and ... Excuse me a minute ...

Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for the President. One hopes they are the same half.

Handguns should be outlawed. Our organization will probably take this stand in time but we are not anxious to rouse the opposition before we get the other legislation passed.

Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics, in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such, and the latter breeds (assumed)facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future; the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?

Having discovered the possibility that other creatures could be used for sexual intercourse, early man was likely to have made many such attempts ... though it is doubtful that he was so sexually carnivorous as the Christian and Jewish Adam, who, rabbinical interpreters of the Old Testament tell us, had intercourse with every creature before God finally hit upon the idea of woman and created Eve.

he Democrats seem to basically be nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I'd be reluctant to trust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy.

He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

He who makes an attempt to enslave me therefore puts himself into a state of war with me.

Here in America, we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels – men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

History does not record at anytime a religion that has a rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and seem to spend considerable time and pleasure fiddling with it.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all alternatives.

Homicide Rate is 49% higher in the (gun) restrictive states (10.1 per 100,000) than in the states with less restrictive CCW laws (6.8 per 100,000).

Homosexuality is not "normal." On the contrary, it is a challenge to the norm; therein rests its eternally revolutionary character. Note I do not call it a challenge to the *idea* of the norm...Nature exists, whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single, relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction. Penis fits vagina: no fancy linguistic game-playing can change that basic fact. However, my libertarian view, here as in regard to abortion, is that we have not only the right, but the obligation to defy nature's tyranny. The highest human identity consists precisely in such assertions of freedom against material limitation.

Honest statesmanship is the employment of individual meanness for the public good.

How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?

Human beings were invented by water as a means of transporting itself from place to place.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Humility is no substitue for a good personality.

I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

I am a stereotypical liberal. Before I undertook this study, I was a pro-control academic who believed instinctively that people should not have guns. Gradually, I came to see that the best available evidence did not support the case that is usually made for gun control: that guns automatically lead to violence. In fact, victims are less likely to get injured or lose property if they have a gun.

I am against government by crony.

I am as strong a gun control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country...What troubles me is the article by Gary Kleck and Mark Gertz. The reason I am troubled is that they have provided an almost clear-cut case of methodologically sound research in support of something I have theoretically opposed for years, namely, the use of a gun in defense against a criminal perpetrator...I have to admit my admiration for the care and caution expressed in this article and this research...

I am for Socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property... Communism is the goal.

I am honored today to begin my first term as the Governor of Baltimore-that is Maryland.

I am not nor have I ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races...I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, not to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together in terms of social and political equality.

I am running because I believe this nation needs someone in the White House who can break the old patterns, someone who can unlock the stranglehold that the political class has on American life.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.

I believe in Liberty...the first thing and the last thing. Wo long as it prevails the show is thrilling and stupendous; the moment it fails the show is a dull and dirty farce.

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurptions

I can never pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

I can remember the antediluvian age of dope hysteria, when the occasional bebop musician's ownership of a Mary Jane cigarette threatened to turn every middle-class American teenager into a sex-crazed car thief.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for a Government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality.

I conclude that the CDA is unconstitutional and that the First Amendment denies Congress the power to regulate protected speech on the Internet.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

I do have an axe to grind...I want to be the little subversive person in television.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government...We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

I do want to say I think Clinton is a liar. There's no question about that in my mind. And he would say anything or do anything.

I don't care if it's duplicitous[a lie], as long as it gets done.

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.

I don't understand all this hand-wringing. ... I don't understand why everybody is going around like Chicken Little: 'Oh, the sky is falling!' We have problems in Medicare because everybody's living.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

I don't want to go for confiscation, but that is where we are going.

I exclaimed, "What are you doing?" and escaped from Mr. Clinton’s reach by walking away from him. I was extremely upset and confused and I did not know what to do. I tried to distract Mr. Clinton by asking him about his wife and her activities, and I sat down at the end of the sofa nearest the door. Mr. Clinton then walked over to the sofa, lowered his trousers and underwear, exposed his penis (which was erect) and told me to "kiss it".

I have almost reached the regrettable concludion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Klu Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

I have learned a great deal from Marxism, as I do not hesitate to admit. The difference between them and myself is that I have really put into practice what these peddlers and pen-pushers have timidly begun.... I had only to develop logically what Social Democracy repeatedly failed in because of its attempt to realize its evolution within the framework of democracy. National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted upon more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe – "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt...If we can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

I place economy among the most important vitues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

I reject the grim notion of the Washington Politicians that America must learn to make do with less – that the American people have spent too much and now the American people must pay, that the wagon is heavy and crowded and now is the time to start throwing people off. And I reject the equally grim notion that the American people must constantly pay in taxes for the mistakes the politicians make in Washington – such as a deficit, which despite years of bluster and two of the largest tax hikes in history – continues to grow.

I say... to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty-making power as boundless: If it is, then we have no Constitution. If it has bounds, they can be no others than the definitions of the powers which that instrument gives.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power... It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of [the Federal government] are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic.

I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

I used to think that I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, I was underpriveledged. Then they told me underpriveledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I sure have a great vocabulary.

I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

I wasn't kissing her. I was whispering in her mouth.

I wish...to see maintained that wholesome distribution of powers established by the Constitution for the limitation of both [the State and General governments], and never to see all offices transferred to Washington where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold as at market.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

I would say of the Great Society programs of the Johnson years, all of the federal programs that have concentrated on low-income areas, what I tried to do...what has been done by other leaders coming after me, in general the failures have been abject and almost unanimous.

I wouldn't mind dying – it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government – I'd give it all up for one erection.

I'm in favor or legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

I'm personally all for taxing guns to pay for health care coverage.

"I'm very suspicious of the President's language about the American economy being so solid when I look and see the falling wages and falling salaries and the economic insecurity and anxiety." – Harvard Professor Cornell West, Commenting on Clinton's claim that his economic plan is aiding black voters, "NBC Nightly News," 7/10/96

I've gone into hundreds of (fortune-tellers' parlors), and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

If "everyone knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so...

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...it expects what never was and never will be.

If a politician found he had cannibals in his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

If a ruler transgresses the peoples' rights, the people are no longer subordinate to him.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact the definition of a peaceful revolution, if any such thing is possible.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

If Bill Clinton can get above 60% in the polls, he can start dating again...

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – A Christian.

If Clinton wins the 1996 election and Democrats reign in the House and Senate, what are the chances of a balanced budget, an expansion of NAFTA and cuts in federal jobs and regulations? Approximately nil.

If drugs are criminal, only criminals will have drugs.

If elected President, I will balance the budget in five years.

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them: "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in," I would have done it. I *could not* do that. The votes weren't here.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.

If Jimmy Carter had been re-elected in 1980, if Walter Mondale had won the presidency in 1984, if Michael Dukakis had been elected in 1988, the Berlin Wall would still be standing. And all we marvel at in the world today would be a wishful dream.

If law school is so hard to get through...how come there are so many lawyers?

If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out again and burn it down, count me in.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the sterb, which shines only on the waves behind us!

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern ...[no] controls on government would be necessary...the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself, but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently deisgned by nature, whom she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breath, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

If no member requires a healing, then a fake healing -must-be-held-...

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

If people are free only to make careful, reasonable, fully considered choices that they will never regret, they are not free at all.

If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame. All animal breeders know how difficult it is to maintain a fine strain. The universe seems to be in a conspiracy to encourage the endless reproduction of peasants and Socialists, but a subtle and mysterious opposition stands eternally against the reproduction of philosophers.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life tenure and they should be made directly responsible to the electorate.

If the legislature clearly misinterprets a Constitutional provision, the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail

If the price I must pay for my freedom is to acknowledge that the government was granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free.

If the rain forest disappears, we'll have to get our air in little bottles from the Evian company, and biodiversity will vanish, and pretty soon we'll have only about one kind of animal...The indigenous peoples will all become exdigenous and move to L.A.; and this will be tough on them because it's hard to use a car phone when you've got a big wooden disk in your lower lip. Furthermore, we'll never discover all the marvelous properties of the various herbal treasures that are found in the rain forest, such as Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

If there is one profoundly reactionary sector in Latin America, it is the leftist intellectuals. They are a people without memory. I have never heard one of them admit he made a mistake. Marxism has become an intellectual vice. It is the superstition of the entire century.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do, it's something for the public.

If they were armed, they would be a resource against great oppressions...If the laws of the Union were oppressive, they could not carry them into effect, if the people were possessed of proper means of defense.

If those in government are heedless of reason, the people must patiently submit to Bondage, or stand upon their own Defence; which if they are enabled to do, they shall never be put upon it, but their Swords may grow rusty in their hands; for that Nation is surest to live in Peace, that is most capable of making War; and a Man that hath a Sword by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of it.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: "We are with you...."

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.

If you attack stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life, and you will make small progress against it.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.

If you don't like yourself, you -can't- like other people.

If you elect me governor, I promise not to abandon you in a run for president in 1992.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments.

Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And – since women are a majority of the population – we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.

Implicit faith belongs to fools; and truth is comprehended by examining principles.

In 1950, the average family of four paid 2% of its earnings in Federal Taxes. Today it pays 24%.

In a field of Nixonians, [Steve Forbes] will offer some Reaganite hope. A centerpiece will be the flat tax - to spur growth, and to clean out the Beltway lobbies that plumb the tax code for advantage.

In a generation, those who are now children will have lost their taste for alcohol.

In a mature society, "civil servant" is the semantic equivilent of "civil -master-".

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.

In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate, and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe their minds must be improved to a certain degree.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

In July 1988 I attended the specious, entropic, criminally trivial, boring, stupid Democratic National Convention

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

In political economy, I think Smith's Wealth of Nations the best book extant; in the science of government, Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws is generally recommended.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

In reality, the animal rights movement has elevated ignorance about the natural world almost to the level of a philosophical principle.

In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states