That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. -Thomas Jefferson
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. -Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. -Margaret Thatcher
"Government can not inject a single dollar into the economy that it hasn't first taken out of the economy." -Tom McClintock
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles. -Jeff Cooper, "The Art of the Rifle"
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 restraint and servitude.-Alexis de Tocqueville
The Founders based the Constitution not on contemporary political theory of the 1700's, but on the immutable principles of human nature.
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