"Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should be just; it must be philanthropic. Nor is it sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual, and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation.

This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat again: These two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other. We must choose between them. A citizen cannot at the same time be free and not free." - Bastiat (The Law)

"When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover that check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money."
-- Boston Federal Reserve Bank - Source: in a publication titled "Putting It Simply"

"When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money..."
-- W. Allen Wallis former Chairman of the 1975 Advisory Council on Social Security, May 27, 1976

"There is no prospect that today's younger workers will receive all the Social Security and Medicare benefits currently promised them."
-- Dorcas Hardy, former Social Security Commissioner and author of "Social Insecurity"
Source: quoted in the December 1995 Reader's Digest.

"All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus."
-- Walter E. Williams, (1936- ) Columnist, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Source: January 24, 1996.

Two for one

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
-- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Author

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
-- Cornelius Tacitus (55-117 A.D.) ource: The Histories

Slavery (the invisible kind)

"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it?s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
-- Frank Zappa
(1940-1993), Musician


"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation."
-- Billie Holiday
(1915-1959) American Jazz Singer


"I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had known they were slaves."
-- Harriet Tubman
[Araminta Ross] (c.1820-1913) African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the U.S. Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

?To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.?

Anne Rice quote

http://thinkexist.com...

"Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism."

- Ron Paul

Thought this needed to be in here somewhere.