"For those who possess and can wield arms they are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not" - Aristotle

April 5, 1887: British historian Lord Acton wrote, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke, British House of Commons

"Suffice it to say, it's not your father's America anymore. As you go about your daily lives, the immigrant population in this country is growing 6.5 times faster than the native-born population."
John McCaslin The Firing Line CRPA

Mark Twain once quipped, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." --Mark Twain

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." --Mark Twain (1866)

"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." --Mark Twain

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class, save Congress." - Mark Twain

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." --Winston Churchill

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." --George Bernard Shaw

"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." -- G. Gordon Liddy

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." --Douglas Casey, Classmate of W. J. Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." --P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." --Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." --Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." --P.J. O'Rourke

If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist." --Joseph Sobran, one time Editor of the National Review (1995)

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. --Voltaire (1764)

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." --Pericles (430 B.C.)

"Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it." --(Unknown)

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." --Winston Churchill

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."--Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." -- Edward Langley, Artist 1928-1995