Thoughts on Government

Lover of individual liberty

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“How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!”

— Samuel Adams

Source: Letter to John Pitts, January 21, 1776

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Growing government enriches those in government... This is why both Democrats and Republicans fail the people. Therein lies the challenge for all freedom loving individuals.

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Psst... Hey, FBI... I posted a Betsy Ross flag picture... 😯

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“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”

— Louis Brandeis

Dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. United States (1928)

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So many "precious blessings," yet the ignorant American left-wing is so arrogantly happy to toss them aside to embrace failed socialist policies from the trash bin of history. Jefferson said it well...

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Record gas prices, yet Biden uses emergency powers (i.e., Defense Production Act) to make solar panels? 🤔🧐

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“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was… The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

— Milan Kundera

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"Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?"

― Patrick Henry

I am not a Virginian but an American (ed. 1926)

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Power is so apt to be insolent and liberty to be saucy that they are seldom on good terms

Sir George Savile (1726-1784) English politician.

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“If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore; it’s propaganda and that’s the truth”

— Aaron Rogers

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"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidarity to pure wind."

- George Orwell

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"Inflation is taxation without representation."

— Milton Friedman (1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"

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“Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings (ed. 1924)