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Karl Hess
Fundraising Letter written on behalf of the Libertarian Party, November 1990.
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
Quote of the day–John F. Kennedy
Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
Quote of the day–Lord Acton
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Lord Acton
[Keep this in mind when dealing directly with the anti-gun bigots.–Joe]
Quote of the day–William O. Douglas
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen’s constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
William O. Douglas
Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court
April 17, 1939 to November 12, 1975
[Nice words but in practice there are certain complication in the implementation.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Larry Whitmore
This type of sensational journalism contributes nothing to an already emotion-filled debate and only serves to mislead and confuse the issue. The simple truth is: You cannot legislate against insanity. Unfortunately, Ackerman and others have a problem grasping that fact.
Larry Whitmore
Executive Director
Canadian Shooting Sports Association
Cannot legislate against insanity
October 30, 2006
Toronto Star
[It is my opinion they cannot grasp that fact because they too have mental problems. The writers of our constitution did in fact attempt to legislate against insanity. It’s called the Second Amendment. And as Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, et al. plainly demonstrate it wasn’t entirely successful.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Jim Harper
The powers that be took a good run at deep-sixing this report. There’s such a strongly held consensus among industry and DHS that RFID is the way to go that getting people off of that and getting them to examine the technology is very hard to do.
Jim Harper
Cato Institute fellow
October 30, 2006
From Feds Leapfrog RFID Privacy Study
Quote of the day–William F. Buckley, Jr.
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Up From Liberalism
[I was reminded of this by Kevin’s posts here and here. Read the comments too.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton
…according to their linguistic constructs they are not gay, according to ours, they are. Same behavior, different categorization based on the framework you start with. The Greek language did not support concepts like straight and gay. Their categories deal with what type of sex you liked to have. In easy terminology an actor vs. receiver of oral, anal or vaginal intercourse. Nothing in their construct included which sex either party was.
So by creating a different framework you can have two people engaging in the same behavior but identifying it completely differently.
Osama Bin Laden has constructed a perfectly logical argument given the start point of the Koran. His arguments have been challenged and found correct by religious law. He has constructed a perfect sales pitch for the market he is trying to capture. It makes sense, and resonates no less in their hearts and minds, than Thomas Paine’s and Thomas Jefferson’s words resonated in ours. (Not in any way trying to confer moral equivalency)
We started with a framework that made what the founding father have to say as being very powerful. They start in a place that makes what Bin Laden is selling as powerful if not more.
Greg Hamilton
August 8, 2006 7:20 PM
From the email list: insightstraining @ yahoogroups.com
Quote of the day–Christopher Soghoian
I don’t want to help terrorists or help bad guys do bad things on airplanes, but what we have now is what we in the industry call ‘security theater.’ It’s made to make you think you’re secure without actually making you secure. As a member of the academic research community, I consider this to be a public service.
Christopher Soghoian
October 27, 2006
ABC News
Web Site Lets Anyone Create Fake Boarding Passes
[Yup. Airplane “security” is a joke. We spend the billions because it makes some people feel better. It doesn’t make us any safer.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Mark Twain
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain
[Reading this post from Phil at Random Nuclear Strikes reminded me of this quote.–Joe]
Quote of the day–William O. Douglas
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
William O. Douglas
Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court
April 17, 1939 to November 12, 1975
Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton
From the Greg Hamilton to English Dictionary by Meredith Robinson:
Mass Launcher also Behavior Modification Device and/or Reactive Defensive Tool
Translation: A gun.
Quote of the day–D’Arcy Cain
Government: Organized crime with an attitude.
D’Arcy Cain
[Cain is a Canadian but there are very few, if any, present day government for which this quip does not apply.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Robert Bork
[W]hen a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.
Robert Bork
Speech
Congress 1987
Quote of the day–Norman R. Augustine
One-tenth of the people involved in a given endeavor produce at least one-third of the output, and increasing the number of participants merely serves to reduce the average performance.
Norman R. Augustine
From: “Defense Systems Management Review”
[I listened to Atlas Shrugged on my drive this weekend and it reminded me of this quote.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Curt Rich
Remember there are no rules in war. The side which imposes the most rules on itself loses. We lost in Vietnam because of self-imposed rules.
Curt Rich
[From a Jeff Cooper Commentary in December 1997–which makes it ominously prophetic.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Russel Baker
Millions of sensible people are too high-minded to concede that politics is almost always the choice of the lesser evil. “Tweedledum and Tweedledee,” they say, “I will not vote.” Having abstained, they are presented with a President who appoints the people who are going to rummage around in their lives for the next four years. Consider all the people who sat home in a stew in 1968 rather than vote for Hubert Humphrey. They showed Humphrey. Those people who taught Hubert Humphrey a lesson will still be enjoying the Nixon Supreme Court when Tricia and Julie begin to find silver threads among the gold and the black.
Russel Baker
Ford without Flummery
Quote of the day–Lord Acton
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
1881
Letter to Mary Gladston
[Lord Acton is probably better known for this quote, also known as Lord Acton’s dictum, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”–Joe]
Quote of the day–Whitfield Diffie
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Whitfield Diffie
[Words of wisdom for freedom advocates from a self admitted lefist who perhaps gave us one of the strongest keys (pun intended) to protecting and advancing freedom in all it’s forms.–Joe]
Quote of the day–John F. Kennedy
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
[I’m sure Kennedy had something else in mind but I’m thinking the freedom to own firearms. The inalienable right to keep and bear arms.–Joe]