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, August 2, 2012

America's unending procession of bend signs, pedestrian-approaching signs, stop signs, stop-sign-ahead signs, stop-sign-ahead-signs-ahead signs, pedestrian-approaching-a-stop-sign signs, designated-scenic-view-ahead signs, parking-restrictions-at-the-designated-scenic-view signs, etc.


 "I want it all: assault weapons and unpasteurized Camembert, guns and butter."


Street-Sign Statism :: SteynOnline

by MARK STEYN   National Review's Happy Warrior
July 31, 2012


... To be disabled in the government sense it is not necessary to be disabled in any meaningful sense. To be on food stamps it is not necessary to be in need of food: In Massachusetts, as Governor Patrick has recently clarified, it's fine to use them to buy porn and get tattoos. On the latter point, should you change your mind, the website The Billfold interviewed a well-remunerated lawyer who's saving four grand by getting her faded Celtic knot removed by a federally funded free clinic in Oregon under a program intended to help ex–gang members rid themselves of identifying tats.
How many more millions will be on food stamps and disability by the end of the decade? According to the Heritage Foundation, in the United States government spending accounts for 42 percent of GDP, in Canada 44 percent. Those two points are apparently the difference between a sturdy republic of limited government and self-reliant citizens and a notorious semi-French socialist basket case of effete wimps. Oh, wait: New Zealand's about the same as America.
In my book America Alone, there's a passage on cheese, prompted by a casual remark from a Gallic bon vivant who argued that, if federalism merely means a different town clerk every five miles, what's the point? The French, he said, practice cultural federalism — a different cheese every five miles — unlike Washington's hideous National Uniform Cheese Regime, which, as with the rest of USDA's regulatory enforcement, is doing a grand job of removing all taste from American food. I could see what he was getting at. Americans, so zealous in defense of their liberties when it comes to guns, are cheese-surrendering eating-monkeys when it comes to dairy products. On the roads, on the cheese board, in health care, in banking privacy, and in a zillion other areas of life, many Europeans now have more freedom than Americans.
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