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, November 10, 2016

Neue Dummköpfe


When Everyone's Hitler, Nobody's Hitler

by Mark Steyn  On the Air  
I spent much of yesterday on the radio chewing over what just happened and why. Here's an interview apiece from my own deranged Dominion and what some of our Kiwi readers like to call the other deranged Dominion.

First, I spoke with Evan Solomon at Ottawa's CFRA. You can hear the full interview here. Evan suggested that Donald Trump had been very "divisive", etc, and I replied that that accusation is leveled at every Republican candidate - so that a milquetoast sweetie like Mitt Romney gets demonized as a man who's going to put black people back in chains and women in his binders. As I said to Evan:
The problem for the left is that, when everyone's Hitler, nobody's Hitler.
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