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

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

No Guts, No Glory - No Will, No Way

AMERICAN PATROL’S Glenn Spencer On Securing The Border: “We Don’t Need A Wall—We Need The Will!”

Glenn Spencer  August 30, 2016

Donald Trump suffers from the same frustration that troubles most Americans—why can’t we secure the border? It’s been thirty years since Reagan signed the IRCA 86 that granted amnesty and promised a secure border—but the border is still a sieve.
Seeing all the failed attempts, it is understandable that Trump would yell out—“just build a damn wall!” The people feel the same way, and they responded positively.
What Trump and his supporters don’t understand is that the border is insecure—not because the job can’t be done with the usual methodologies—but because there are people inside our government who do not want it secured.

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