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Liberty, human dignity, a higher standard of living is fundamental.
And, steadily, I think, people are beginning to realise that you don't have those things unless you have a pretty large private enterprise sector.
Any Iron Curtain country has neither liberty, nor a very high standard of living.
The two things go, economic and political freedom, go together.
I've been right in the forefront of saying that, here, in the States,
and it's very interesting to me now, to see a number of articles from people who are taking up the same theme.
They are disturbed that Socialism is reducing liberty and freedom for ordinary people, and that's really what matters..
~ Margaret Thatcher ~ (1925-2013)
British Prime Minister (1979–1990)
Source.. 1976 Feb 5, TV Interview for Thames TV 'This Week'
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ...
Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself:
'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'..
~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi ~ (1869-1948)
Source.. M. K. Gandhi quoted in Gene Sharp, The Politics Of Nonviolent Action (1973), p. 59.
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives
but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty.
They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship.
They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.
Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!!
~ Ludwig von Mises ~ (1881-1973)
Economist and social philosopher
Economic control is not merely control of a sector
of human life that can be separated from the rest;
it is the control of the means for all our ends..
~ Ludwig von Mises ~ (1881-1973)
Economist and social philosopher, escaped from NAZI Germany
Source.. Human Action
I don't like the income tax.
Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'.
That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto.
Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him..
~ T. Coleman Andrews ~
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Source.. May 25, 1956 in US. News & World Report
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From each according to his abilities,
to each according to his needs..
~ Karl Marx ~ (1818-1883)
Father of Communism, Author of the 'Communist Manifesto'
Source.. The Criticism of the Gotha Program, 1875
Creation comes before distribution or there will be nothing to distribute.
The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary..
~ Ayn Rand ~ (1905-1982)
Author
You can't save free markets by socialism, I don't know where this idea ever came from.
You save free markets by promoting free markets and sound money and balanced budgets.
The whole reason why nobody wants to address the real problem is, we're spending a trillion dollars a year overseas running an empire, and it's coming to an end.
This country is bankrupt, and we won't admit it.
Eventually though, the dollar will go bust, and we will bring our troops home, and we will live within our means,
but we ought to do it sensibly, rather than waiting for the collapse of the dollar, and this is what we're doing, we're on the verge of destroying our dollar.
And then, you think we have problems now, problems then will be a lot worse, it'd look like the Weimar Republic, or a third world nation.
And a lot of people know that, and they're scared to death,
but we don't need to be making the problem worse by just propping up everything with more government programs, more inflation, and more helicopters, it won't work..
~ Dr. Ron Paul ~ (1935-)
American physician, US Congressman (R-TX), US Presidential candidate
Source.. Fox Business Network, October 14, 2008
The world breaks everyone
and afterward, some are strong
at the broken places..
~ Ernest Hemingway ~
Three steps to health and happiness
1. Eat X 1/2
2. Walk X 2
3. Smile X 3
A politician in the business world
Would be toast
When it comes to trust..
~ vexari ~
Another major reason why crime is increasing is that crime pays,
and in our tax-ridden, regulation crushed economy, many people cannot economically survive through low-end jobs. ...
'The income that offenders can earn in the world of crime, as compared with the world of work, all too often makes crime appear to be the better choice.'
In Washington, D.C., it costs $7,000 in city fees to open a pushcart.
In California, up to eighty federal and state licenses are required to open a small business.
In New York, a medallion to operate a taxicab costs $150,000.
More than 700 occupations in the United States require a government license.
Throughout the country, church soup kitchens are being closed by departments of health.
No wonder so many people turn to crime and violence to survive."
~ Jacob G. Hornberger ~
American author, journalist, politician, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation
Source.. Will You be Safer if Guns are Banned?, The Tyranny of Gun Control, 9-10 (1997).
... as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed:
the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less.
And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people.
Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more.
The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes;
the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure.
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...
~ Benjamin Franklin ~ (1706-1790)
US Founding Father
Source.. before the Constitutional Convention, (June 2, 1787)
Our government has found that the most effective way to control a person is not by the ballot or the bullet,
but rather by the 'bucket'.
Today, in a country that fought a revolution to rid itself of a repressive government and excessive taxes,
government takes 40 percent of everything we earn in the form of taxes..
~ Byron C. Radaker ~
Chairman and C.E.O., Congoleum Corp.
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment.
Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice.
Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come.
Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk..
~ Bertolt Brecht ~ (1898-1956)
German dramatist, stage director, and poet
No Gulag, evidently, can deter the advocates of state power from believing in their own virtue and in the morality of the power they exercise.
We are all Hobbesians now.
Virtue is presumed to reside in the state.
Its reliance on compulsion is seen as fulfilling, not undermining, morality.
Our communicators, oddly employed in the private sector, work tirelessly to ensure that state control is maintained, our taxes stay high, the official message is promoted.
The people know, and can only know, a tiny fraction of what Leviathan does, and what they know is what these partisans tell them..
~ Tom Bethel ~
Source: Freedom and Its Enemies, AMERICAN SPECTATOR, June, 1999 p. 19.
National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws?
If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States, we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'
~ Michael Moriarty ~ (1941)
American-Canadian stage and screen actor, jazz musician
The practice of interlocking directors is the practice of many evils.
It offends laws, both human and divine.
Applied to rival corporations, it tends to the suppression of competition ...
applied to corporations which deal with each other, it tends to disloyalty
and violation of the fundamental law that no man can serve two masters.
In either event, it tends to inefficiency for it removes incentives and destroys soundness of judgment.
It is undemocratic for it rejects the platform:
A fair field and no favors- substituting the pull of privilege for the push of manhood
~ Louis Brandeis ~ (1856-1941)
Ex. US Supreme Court Justice
Source.. House of Representatives, Pujo committee report, 1913
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us,
he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else,
for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...
There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language..
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people..
~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ 1907
This war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to Popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons. Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and North, on the question of slavery, neither Jeff Davis nor any one of the leading men of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North, had they not relied on the promise of the Jesuits, that, under the mask of Democracy, the money and the arms of the Roman Catholics, even the arms of France, were at their disposal if they would attack us..
~ Abraham Lincoln ~ (1809-1865)
16th US President
Source.. Charles Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, The Wickliffe Press, Protestant Truth Society, Wickliffe Avenue, 104 Hendon Lane, Finchley, London, N3., 1885, p. 388.
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies,
one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left,
is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Instead, the two parties should be almost identical,
so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.
~ Carroll Quigley ~
Georgetown University Professor
Source.. Tragedy and Hope, 1966, pp. 1247-1248
[T]he tax code has been piling up
year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America
of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away
It has to happen
Free people can put up with such laws only for so long..
~ Richard Armey ~ (1940- )
U.S. Congressman (R-TX) (1985–2003), House Majority Leader (1995–2003).
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government
... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy
This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy
and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior..
~ Jacob G. Hornberger ~
American author, journalist, politician, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation
Source.. The Nazi Mind-Set in America, THE TYRANNY OF GUN CONTROL, 63 (Future of Freedom Foundation 1997).
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws,
are all - to different degrees -
unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort..
~ Jack Kemp ~ (1935-2009)
American politician, collegiate and professional football player
[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today’s social and economic difficulties.
Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems.
Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more.
But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills..
~ Doug Bandow ~ (1954- )
Columnist, author, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute
Source.. Big business is not to blame, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, October 13, 1995.
Many now believe that with the rise of the totalitarian State the world has entered upon a new era of barbarism. It has not.
The totalitarian State is only the State; the kind of thing it does is only what the State has always done with unfailing regularity,
if it had the power to do it, wherever and whenever its own aggrandizement made that kind of thing expedient.
Give any State like power hereafter, and put it in like circumstances, and it will do precisely the same kind of thing.
The State will unfailingly aggrandize itself, if only it has the power, first at the expense of its own citizens, and then at the expense of anyone else in sight.
It has always done so, and always will..
~ Albert Jay Nock ~ (1870-1945)
Source.. The Criminality of the State, America Mercury Magazine, March, 1939
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it..
~ Albert Einstein ~ (1879-1955)
Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship,
the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics:
You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it;
and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you
carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you..
~ Albert Jay Nock ~ (1870-1945)
Source.. The Criminality of the State, America Mercury Magazine, March, 1939
The Nazis are well remembered for murdering well over 11 million people in the implementation of their slogan,
'The public good before the private good,'
the Chinese Communists for murdering 62 million people in the implementation of theirs,
'Serve the people,'
and the Soviet Communists for murdering more than 60 million people in the implementation of Karl Marx's slogan,
'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.'
Anyone who defends any of these, or any variation of them, on the grounds of their 'good intentions'
is an immoral (NOT 'amoral') enabler of the ACTUAL (not just the proverbial) road to hell..
~ Rick Gaber ~
Libertarian writer
A wise and frugal government
which shall restrain men from injuring one another,
which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits 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..
~ Thomas Jefferson ~ (1743-1826)
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source.. First Inaugural Address; March 4, 1801
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly..
~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ (1929-1968)
US civil rights leader
Letter from the Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it.
Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve...
But how is this legal plunder to be identified?
Quite simply.
See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn't belong.
See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish that law without delay ... No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic..
~ Frederic Bastiat ~ (1801-1850)
French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following--
the French Revolution of February 1848.
Source.. "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat, 1850
Do not expect justice
where might is right..
~ Plato ~ (429-347 BC)
Source.. Phaedrus, 360 B.C.
The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders.
James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees.
He said, 'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending,
on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.'
Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail..
~ Walter Williams ~
Source.. On Why Socialism Is Evil.
The moment the idea is admitted into society
that property is not as sacred as the law of God,
and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it,
anarchy and tyranny commence..
~ John Adams ~ (1735-1826)
Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source.. Defence of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States
Hypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man,
but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it,
and is revolted by it,
however ingeniously it may be disguised..
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi ~ (1828-1910)
Russian writer
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.
When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals"
without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....
we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity...
~ Robert M. Lafollette, Sr. ~ (1855-1925)
U.S. Senator
Source.. The Progressive, March 1920
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The four branches of government (the propaganda arm that is the press, being here recognized as the forth branch)
have all denied liberty, civil and otherwise, and shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity..
In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me..
~ Reverend Martin Niemoeller ~ (1892-1984)
German Lutheran pastor, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in 1938. He was freed by the allied forces in 1945.
Source.. paraphrased and inscribed at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts
It seems as if the Department [of Justice]
sees the value of the Bill of Rights
as no more than obstacles to be overcome..
~ Prof. Sanford H. Kadish ~
The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom
and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight..
~ John F. Kennedy ~ (1917-1963) 35th US President
Source..
Questionable: supposedly spoken at a speech at Columbia University on Nov. 12, 1963, 10 days before his assassination. There is no record of this speech.
The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it..
~ James Wilson ~
Source.. Of the Study of Law in the United States, 1790
"Natural Born Citizen"
If we wish to understand the meaning of a term in the Constitution, the most sensible thing to do is to find the exact, written definition. We know "Natural Born Citizen" is a term that comes only from "Law of Nations" and no other source known to the Founders.
The Constitution does not require a "natural born subject" to the King of England, so fishing around there is silly, when the exact definition of "Natural Born Citizen" is available to us and the authors of the Constitution.
The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens..
~ Law of Nations ~
We know for a fact the Founders relied heavily on Vattel, citing him in their own legal writings and even acknowledging their dependence on "Law of Nations" when crafting our nation's founding documents:
I am much obliged by the kind present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when the circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult the Law of Nations. Accordingly, that copy which I kept has been continually in the hands of the members of our congress..
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Source.. In a letter to Charles W.F. Dumas, December 1775
We know that Law of Nations was used in many nations, and that it was a standard textbook in American Universities by 1780, making it common knowledge to the American People long before the Constitution was written.
We know that Chief Justice John Jay, who warned that only a "natural born citizen" should be President, was familiar with the works of Vattel and cited them in his own legal writings:
example
… comprized within two Classes vizt cases of urgent necessity, and cases of convenience—The present case belongs to the latter. Vattel who well understood the Subject, says in the 7th chapter of his 3d Book— That an innocent Passage is due to all Nations with whom a State is at Peace, and that this …
~ Chief Justice John Jay ~ in referring to Vattel
We know that John Jay's concern was 'foreign influence' in the office of President, which would come from a US-born child of a father who is, say, a British Subject, who by English law is also a subject to the King of England. Or, a person born abroad, to US Citizens, who may be a citizen at birth but is also a citizen or subject of another land.
How to avoid those foreign attachments?
By adhering to the written definition of "Natural Born Citizen", that excludes anyone born under foreign jurisdiction or to a foreign parent.
We know that peers of the Founders as well as Constitutional scholars and authors of later times stated correctly the requirements to be a natural born citizen, according to the written definition:
The citizenship of no man could be previous to the declaration of independence, and, as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776..
~ David Ramsay ~
Source.. 1789, Dissertation on the nature of citizenship
every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen..
~ Representative John Bingham of Ohio ~
A principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment
Given that we have the written definition that we know was in the hands of the Founders, given that many earlier authorities echoed the requirements of that definition.....
The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.. ~ Law of Nations
The nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force:
International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state..
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
Co-founder of The Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller
Source.. Statement from his 1971 book, Between Two Ages..
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”
H.L. Mencken
Proof in one study>>>>>
http://www.livescience.com/15535-children-creative.html
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one."
From L2R at Simply politics
https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/laws-forbid-carrying-armsquotation
The wise know their weakness too well
to assume infallibility
and he who knows most, knows best
how little he knows..
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
No matter how pristine or majestic
It can be taken away
In an instant
And what is left?
My thoughts at this moment..
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law.
For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this..
~ Albert Einstein ~ (1879-1955)
Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
Source.. My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
Comments:
The dangerous increase of crime in this country, as well as all others, is always preceded by government's enforcement of tyrannical rules. Einstein references alcohol prohibition, today it is drugs, religious freedom, fiscal law, etc., etc., etc. The occupying statist theocracy infesting this land, enacting canons based on an hegemony of atheistic socialism is about to bring about extreme violence, pain, poverty, hunger, and death.
(-; have a great day ~ Mike, Norwalk ~
As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.
One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.
The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate..
~ George Washington ~ (1732-1799)
Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'
Source.. George Washington's Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
Whenever destroyers appear among men
they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.
Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper.
This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values.
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced.
Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.
Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims.
Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'
~ Ayn Rand ~ (1905-1982)
Author
Source.. Atlas Shrugged, p. 385-386, (1957)..
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private
and public virtue is the only foundation of republics
There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honor, power and glory
established in the minds of the people
or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty
and this public passion must be superior to all private passions..
~ John Adams ~ (1735-1826)
Source.. letter to Mercy Warren, 1776
But the mild voice of reason
pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest
is but too often drowned
before public bodies as well as individuals
by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain..
~ James Madison ~ (1751-1836
Source.. Federalist No. 42, January 22, 1788
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