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

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Washington D.C. councilman and former mayor Marion Barry said-

Washington, D.C. councilman Marion Barry said, “We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops.”


“If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.”


“First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I’m a night owl.”


“B**** set me up.”


“All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.”


“The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100 percent of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.”


“What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?”


“I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.”


What Did He Say? Barry potent quotables.


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