Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Friday, April 20, 2012

Eleven Words to Think About

Actually, will Romney as that question of Obama: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
The answer is, of course, a resounding NO!

Eleven Words to Think About

by BURT FOLSOM on APRIL 19, 2012
“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” That was the campaign mantra of Ronald Reagan when he ran for president against Jimmy Carter in 1980; and then again when Reagan ran for re-election in 1984. President Reagan believed that comparison was important in deciding whether his presidency had succeeded or failed. Since unemployment in 1984 was sharply down and since U.S. economic growth was much stronger, Reagan made his case for re-election with those eleven words–and he carried 49 of 50 states.
Will President Obama ask that question during his re-election? He has higher unemployment than when he took office, a $5,000,000,000,000 debt increase during his White House tenure, and gas prices that have more than doubled. His critics argue that if he had avoided a stimulus package–a tactic which has often failed in the past–and if he had encouraged more drilling for oil and more use of plentiful natural gas, then the U.S. economy might have done much better. President Obama, if he wants, can use those words to make his own case that his presidency has made some people better off.
Here are eleven more words that presidents should ask: “Is liberty better off today than it was four years ago?”
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