“It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.” Thomas Babington…

“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.” Richard Rumbold, (1744–1775), (1622–1685) Parliamentarian soldier, political radical, exiled for his role in the…

“Under God we are determined that, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever, we shall be called upon to make our exit, we will die freemen.” Josiah Quincy, Jr., (1744–1775), attorney, “the Patriot”, essayist, son of Josiah Quincy I, 1774. Source Reference Josiah Quincy, Jr….

“But what is Freedom?  Rightly understood, a universal licence to be good.” Hartley Coleridge, (1796-1849) Poet. Source Reference Hartley Coleridge Quote

“Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source Reference Thomas Jefferson Quote

“Politics doesn’t work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we’ve got the poor people in.” P. J. O’Rourke, (1947- ) US…

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” Justice John Marshall, (1755-1835) US Supreme Court Chief Justice. Source: McCullough v. Maryland, 1819. Source Reference…

“We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings and brought all labourers to a common level, but not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of…

“You know, putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.” William Barr, Attorney General, United…

“For the first time in my adult life, it’s easy for me to foresee the possibility of a genuine constitutional crisis in the United States of America.” David French, columnist, Time Magazine, in the Sept 10, 2020. Source Reference America…

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.” Gore Vidal, (1925- )novelist, essayist, playwright,…

“You don’t have to scratch liberalism very deeply to find socialism underneath, nor socialism to find authoritarianism underneath.” Don Luskin, (1954 -) American columnist. Source Reference Don Luskin Quote