I can't think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.Collection: Responsibility
The federal government should be less important in our lives, not more.Collection: Government
Politicians don't like empowered individuals.Collection: Political
Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.Collection: Opportunity
Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.Collection: Choices
Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.Collection: Expression
The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.Collection: Ignorance
Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.Collection: Retirement
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.Collection: Rights
No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.Collection: Rights
There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.Collection: Gun
There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details.Collection: Government
Our liberties face a far greater threat from Hillary Clinton ... than from Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. I am not saying that for impact; I believe that to the core of my being.Collection: Believe
Lynch mobs are democracies.Collection: Democracy
People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headwayCollection: Racism
It is the rare - maybe even nonexistent - politician who will admit this, but number one on the politicians to-do list is always to get reelected. Nothing else comes close. The economy, the stock market, the war on terrorism ... NOTHING comes ahead of getting reelected. Staying in power is job number one.Collection: Jobs
The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.Collection: Doctors
Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?Collection: Cutting
If government were a plant, it would be kudzu.Collection: Government
Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist.Collection: Race
Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.Collection: Gentleman
Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?Collection: Atlanta
Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.Collection: Reading
Whenever somebody has an idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally expect the government to step in and screw it up.Collection: Government
You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.Collection: Ideas
If there were any people safe to criticize, they'd be politicians and child molesters, doncha think?Collection: Children
Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.Collection: Fortune Cookie
Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This deep-seated envy was ripe for exploitation - and the exploitation has been running rampant for generations.Collection: Running
Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?Collection: Political
Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!Collection: Political
I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power.Collection: Moving
Yeah, I'm insensitive. So is life. DEAL with it.Collection: Yeah