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

Monday, June 28, 2010

Senator Robert C. Byrd, 92, was longest-serving US Senator


Senator Robert C. Byrd, 92, was longest-serving US Senator - The Boston Globe
It was hard to find anything in West Virginia that didn't have Byrd's name chiseled into it.
No tears are shed here, as with Ted Kennedy, his abuse of power outweighed his tenure.

When Mr. Byrd ran for the US House of Representatives in 1952, a Democratic primary opponent disclosed that he had been a kleagle, or organizer, in the Klan in 1942 and '43. Owning up to his membership, Mr. Byrd dismissed it as a "mistake of youth.'' Then in the general election, the Republican nominee revealed that Mr. Byrd had written to the Imperial Wizard of the Klan in 1946 that the KKK "is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here [and] in every state of the Union.'' Disowned by the governor and most West Virginia newspapers, Mr. Byrd nonetheless managed to win the House seat. Reelected in 1954 and 1956, he moved up to the Senate in 1958.

Mr. Byrd voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the nomination of the first black to be named to the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall. He later expressed regret for all three votes, but over the remainder of the '60s he offered consistently sharp views on race. "We can take the people out of the slums,'' he declared at that time, "but we cannot take the slums out of the people.'' Because of his conservative social views, President Nixon later gave serious consideration to putting Mr. Byrd on the Supreme Court.

A kleagle, or organizer, in the Klan, is that like a community kleagle?

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