If you look at every issue in this country, every issue I believe traces back to this fact: On the one hand, the elites in the ruling class in this country are robbing us blind, and on the other, if you dare complain about it, you are a bad person.
– J.D. VANCE
Category: Quote O’ The Day
Our Constitution is our rule of law, and the first 10 amendments of that venerable document contain our Bill of Rights. Those First Amendment rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to assemble, and the right to petition the government for redress of grievance, do not come with any requirement to obtain a permit.
– Allen West
To save democracy, the Democrat party just tossed out 15 million democrat primary votes so a handful of rich, Democrat elitist snobs can decide the candidate.
Stalin would be proud.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 21, 2024
The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy.
– Fred Smith
“You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”
– Rush Limbaugh
“I would never wish for the death of anyone, that being said, there are some obituaries I have read with a great deal of pleasure.”
-Mark Twain
“One of my rules-of-thumb is that anything that can’t be explained with normal words is BS”
-Scott Adams
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
— Patrick Henry
“A bullet couldn’t stop Trump. A virus just stopped Biden”
Van Jones: “A bullet couldn’t stop Trump. A virus just stoped Biden…The Democrats are coming apart. The Republicans are coming together.” pic.twitter.com/62ZPzwjKIY
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 18, 2024
“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of “emergency”. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And “emergency” became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.”
– President Herbert Hoover
Who’s the real threat to democracy?
I can help those claiming to be in the dark about the shooter’s motive.
His motive was to kill Donald Trump
Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please.
Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern.
But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter.
If all men are created equal, that is final.
If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final.
If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.
Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress.
They are reactionary.
Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers…………………
There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.
— James Madison
Quote O’ The Day
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
— Mark Skousen
Observation O’ The Day
However, as history teaches us, it sometimes does take downright force to ‘persuade’ those who want to exert control over others by using an authoritarian goobermint. Does that mean that that society isn’t civilized?
Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end.
— LORD ACTON
Stone Thompson:
No need for party affiliation to have common sense. 2A was designed to hamstring the Government. If that eludes you, then you are ignorant.
The merit of our Constitution is not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.
– Horatio Seymour, 18th Governor of New York
“Studies show that moslem terrorists are less prone to violence after they’ve been shot in the face” – unattributed.
Israeli Special Forces Disguised as Palestinian Refugees for Hostage Rescue
Israeli special forces were disguised as Palestinians looking for a place to live when they rescued hostages from Gaza during the weekend, two Israeli security sources told ABC News.
Special forces were already in position near the hostages before being given the “go” command, which was given at 11a.m. local time.
The helicopters carrying the hostages and wounded officers landed at Sheba Medical Center in Israel a bit later.
The hostages were in “good medical condition” when they were rescued, according to IDF officials.