I think of the Legislature as a giant make-work project for journalists.We’ve been kept quite busy on the editorial page documenting onepiece of insanity after another. There are legislators who want to’nationalize’ industries (electricity, petroleum), just as they did in thecommunist bloc. Steven Greenhut
in the Orange County Register
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that a house divided can’t remain half slave …
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that a house divided can’t remain half slave and half free. But if American government today takes almost half of the national income, is it not already almost half slave? Investor’s Business Daily
(Investor’s Business Daily, December 15, 2000)
Immigration is not a problem to be solved. It is a sign …
Immigration is not a problem to be solved. It is a sign of a confident and successful nation. George W. Bush
July 11, 2001, Wall Street Journal.
Growing up made Rudolph realize you can’t run away from your …
Growing up made Rudolph realize you can’t run away from your troubles. Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
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[S]uffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human. J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, June 2003, p 824
The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas …
The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly. Norman Thomas
U.S. Socialist Party 1962
They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If …
They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000, does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in it? There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must! Tony Blair
UK Prime Minister, Labor Party Conference, 2001 October 2, 2001, Birghton England
If you aren’t two hours early, you are late. Marian Egeln …
If you aren’t two hours early, you are late.
Marian Egeln
Mari Anne Egeln Guzman, quoting her grandmother’s attitude
But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take …
But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. Ayn Rand
Anthem
The ostensibly compassionate policies of the state have ruined our inner cities …
The ostensibly compassionate policies of the state have ruined our inner cities and dehumanized their beneficiaries. Whatever the issue — public education, the sanctity of human life, the criminal justice system, job creation in the private sector — the legacy of the ever-expanding state is one of lost freedom, weaker families, and few jobs. Bill Baker
Bill Baker, California Representative July 1994