July 25, 2006

In some government offices there are so many coffee breaks that the employees can't sleep at their work.

— Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations

July 24, 2006

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

July 23, 2006

America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers is not a mere "technicality." It is the centerpiece of our Constitution. Our freedoms depend upon it in the future, just as they have in the past.

— Richard Epstein,

July 20, 2006

A Communist is one who has nothing and is eager to share it with others.

— Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations

July 19, 2006

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin

July 16, 2006

“It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions”

Robert G. Ingersoll

July 15, 2006

So you thought that the US went into Iraq to uproot a dangerous dictator and establish democracy? Well, the US military has taken on a job a bit more difficult than that. It is trying to build an economy, which no state in the history of the world has been able to do without the assistance of a vibrant market.

— Lew Rockwell

July 14, 2006

The object of the state is always the same; to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

— Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own [1845]

July 13, 2006

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

July 12, 2006

“If Christ, in fact, said "I came not to bring peace but a sword," it is the only prophecy in the New Testament that has been literally fulfilled”
Rober G. Ingersoll

July 11, 2006

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
– George Washington

July 10, 2006

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. – Lysander Spooner

July 9, 2006

It is hard to live a great while without growing old, and it is hardly worthwhile to die just to keep young.

Robert G. Intersoll

July 8, 2006

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

July 7, 2006

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

July 6, 2006

The suggestion of conservatives that the government engage in all-out war on the world but otherwise leave people free to manage their own affairs is completely absurd in every way. It is akin to the demand that one's left leg march in one direction and the right leg march in the other direction. If we know how the human body works, we know that this suggestion is ridiculous. So too, if we know how government works, we know that a state that is expansionist abroad will never let well enough alone at home.


— Lew Rockwell, "Are Conservatives Crazy?" [March 30, 2006

July 5, 2006

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992

July 4, 2006

Every time the president comes up with a new secret tactic to down al Qaeda, the media blows its cover: torture, monitoring our phone calls, monitoring our e-mails, secret prisons. All perfectly reasonable temporary concessions of freedom that will only be in effect as long as our never-ending war on terror.

— Stephen Colbert

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Mark Twain

July 2, 2006

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Ingersoll