Fighting Statism with Individual Rights

Individual rights must be the rallying point for reclaiming liberty.


The Founders of the United States hoped to create a society of free individuals, but for at least a century, the nation has been marching ever more quickly in the direction of tyranny......Fighting Statism

Awe inspiring!

It's hard to explain how truely awe inspiring the Lincoln Memorial is. As much as we harp on the politicians and politics of DC, visiting our Nations capital should be on everyone's Bucket List.

How fitting!

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

The sad truth.

From LukeAmerica2020 "101 Tea Party Sign Slogans"

Free Markets, Not Free Loaders!
Cut Government Spending; Fire a Politician!
Don’t spread the wealth; spread my work ethic!
Equal OPPORTUNITY not Equal Distribution !
If Dependence Is Your Idea Of HOPE, You Can Keep The CHANGE!

Fast approaching

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

Government "help".....

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand

No Contradictions!

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand

Said in 1824

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” Thomas Jefferson

PS: I want to thank Bill Whittle and his blog at http://pajamasmedia.com/ejectejecteject/2010/04/13/reasonable-men/ for these quotes.

A wise and frugal government

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…” Thomas Jefferson from his first inaugural speech.

Immigration

'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

A thought from Einstein

"There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein