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Thoughts to Ponder for January 21, 2012
Jan. 21, 2012
A Government That Does Not Trust it's Law Abiding Citizens To Keep and Bear Arms Is Itself Unworthy Of Trust ~James Madison
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If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. ~Samual Adams
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Cicero on Taxation
“We are taxed in our bread and our wine, in our incomes and our investments, on our land and on our property not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men, but for foreign nations, complaisant nations who will bow to us and accept our largesse and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace – these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare, and surely it is becoming bare! We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and order and the Pax Romana, a document which will fall into dust when it pleases our allies and our vassals. We keep them in precarious balance only with our gold. Is the heartblood of our nation worth these? Were they bound to us with ties of love, they would not ask our gold. They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more? … When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.” — Cicero <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero> , 54 B.C
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. ---Upton Sinclair
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When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; When you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you; When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice; You may know that your society is doomed. - Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged, 1957