“Over the 20th century, the federal government has assumed a vast and unprecedented set of powers. Not only has the exercise of those powers upset the balance between federal and state governments; run roughshod over individuals, families, and firms; and…

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General. Source: first inaugural address, 20 January 1953.
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“True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.” Felix Emmanuel Schelling,…

“Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.” Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677). Source Reference

“The businessman’s tool is values; the bureucrat’s  tool is fear.” Ayn Rand  [Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum], (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Source Reference

“Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in behaving themselves.” Thomas Szasz, (1920- ) Author, Professor. Source: The Second Sin, 1973
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“Communism, avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God. This I could never accept,… I strongly disagreed with Communism’s ethical relativism… there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently, almost anything—force, violence, murder, lying—is a justifiable means to the ‘millennial’…

“If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Naziism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.” Paul Johnson, American historian. Source Reference Paul Johnson…

“It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.” Paul Harvey [Paul Harvey Aurandt], (1918-2009) American radio broadcaster. Source: The…

“The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren’t worth a dime.” Richard A. Viguerie, (1933- ) American writer. Source Reference Richard A. Viguerie Quote

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” Patrick…

“It takes a very long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.” Alice Koller, Source: The Stations of Solitute (1990). Source Reference Alice Koller Quote