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C = Matter    D = Anti-Matter
! = Du'uh!     ? = Say what?!
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" = Quote     ' = Paraphrase

C "freewillie, you have a magnificent site."
~ L. Neil Smith
98-11-26
[Ah... shucks!]

NewSpin

C          "It may be my libertarianism talking, but surely the people who create the income should have the benefit of the doubt when it comes to disposition of their wealth.  Government has become a fat, lazy behemoth, spawning parasitic bureaucracies resistant to reform.  Democrats seem addicted to the dole."
~ Camille Paglia
[From the mouth of Babe!]

C          "The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
~ Will Rogers
[Was he wise, or what?!]


Gun Control Quotes

     "We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily ... given the political realities ... very modest.  We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again.  Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time.  The first problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal."
~ Peter Shields
founder of Handgun Control Inc.
New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976


     "The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation."
~ Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post
April 5,1996


     "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.  The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding"
- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis


     "...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious."
~ Joseph Goebbels


   "The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms..."
~ Samuel Adams


     "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms.  History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.  Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.  So let's not have any native militia or police."
~ Adolph Hitler
Edict of March 18, 1938


     "Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA.  Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State"
~ Heinrich Himmler


     "...to disarm the people (is) the best and most effective way to enslave them..."
~ George Mason


     "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence"
~ Charles A. Beard


     "If I could've gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them...'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it."
~ Senator Diane Feinstein (F-CA)


     "All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately...The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them.  Therefore any one who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon...must be regarded as an enemy of the national government."
~ SA Oberfuhrer Bad Tolz
March 1933


     "The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms.  If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did."
~ James Madison


     "We must get rid of all the guns."
~ Sarah Brady
Handgun Control, Inc.
the Phil Donahue Show
September 1994


     "Waiting periods are only a step.  Registration is only a step.  The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
~ Janet Reno, US Attorney General


     "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."
~ Bill Clinton, President of the United States
USA Today
March 11, 1993


     "Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe."
~ U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Associated Press
November 18, 1993


     "And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel.  I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did.  I was trained in firearms.  I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick.  I carried a concealed weapon.  I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me."
~ U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein
C-Span
April 27, 1995

(Ed. Note - Sen. Feinstein seems to be betraying a bit of elitist inconsistency, since she wants to ban other people's possession of weapons even while obtaining one for herself.)

     "The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible.  Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."
~ Henry St. George Tucker
Blackstone's 1768 "Commentaries on the Laws of England."



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D          "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America.   I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped (Sept. 11) happen.'"
~ Rev. Jerry Falwell
[Jerry, you make me wish there was a Hell.]

D          "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
~ General William Westmoreland
[Or terribly clear!]

?          "Whoever flees or evades a checkpoint operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or any other Federal law enforcement agency, in a motor vehicle and flees Federal, State, or local law enforcement agents in excess of the legal speed limit shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
~ U.S. House Conference Committee Report 104-863
[Wetbacks use them Fuzz-Busters!]

C          "When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
~ Harry S. Truman
[If only ALL people would realize this!]

C          "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
~ Mark Twain
[Warn't he wise!]

C          "We need to do everything we can to keep dangerous gun laws out of the hands of politicians like Al Gore and George W. Bush."
~ Harry Browne,
Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate
[Amen, Bro!]

C          "Poll after poll shows large majorities willing to 'give up some freedoms' (especially the liberties of others), or to impose higher taxes on their fellows, if only it will mean greater security, less fear, more 'fairness', or the personal profit of a new program of government spending.
     Such security, however, is the 'freedom' of the plantation slave."
~ Christopher B. Jeffers
[The old S/F Continuum - Again]

C          "The number one deterrent to violent crime is the possibility of an armed victim"
~ Steve McGhee
President Missouri Sport Shooting Association
[Why can't those ditzy liberal FELLOW-TRAVELERS get it?
Or do they?]

C          "Gore has claimed some of the credit for the V-chip, that little bit of federally mandated technology in your television that's supposed to keep your kids' brains from melting if they see nipples on the tube."
~ J. D. Tuccille
[If kids see nipples they'll rape and pillage.]

D          "Counsel for defendants are instructed not to make any reference in whatever form including but not limited to arguments, questions, comments, testimony or evidence, to Proposition 215, the medical usefulness of marijuana, the closed single patient investigative new drug program [in which the federal government supplies marijuana to eight patients each month for medical use], defendants' reliance on advice of counsel and defendants' medical conditions. Counsel are further instructed to assure that no other persons, including their clients (the defendants), and their witnesses, make any such prohibited references at trial."
~ U.S. District Court Judge George King 2000-11-05
[Jeez! There goes the Defense!]

D          "If we beat you, it's because we love you."
~ Nelson Mandela
(Speaking of Women)
[This hurts me more than it does you.]

D          "Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it."
~ Rudolph Giuliani
Mayor of New York, 1998
[Double-Speak from 1984?]

C          "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.  A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
~ Abraham Lincoln
[Even a Constitutional Rapist can be right.]

C          "The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
~ James Madison
The Federalist Papers, No. 46.
[Fear the government that fears you.]

C          "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.  The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.  A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power."
~ Noah Webster
An Examination of The Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, Philadelphia, 1787.
[Alas, once upon a time, we did.]

*          "Abortion?  A fetus is not a person until the umbilical cord is cut."
~ Klaatu
[Hmmmmmm.]

C          "I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people.  But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer.  It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market."
~ John Stossel
interview in The Oregonian Newspaper
[Some of the best libertarians were former statists.]

C          "Puritanism: the haunting fear that somebody, somewhere, might be having a good time."
~ H.L. Mencken
[Like sex, drugs, rock 'n roll and keeping the fruits of your labors...]

C          "This country is a one-party country.  Half of that party is called Republican and half is called Democrat.  It doesn't make any difference.  All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians."
~ Hugh Downs
Politically Incorrect - 97-03-31
[That's because Libertarians have a principled, consistent philosophy.]

C          "I regard a "cult" as a religion small enough to be easily victimized by the authorities and a religion as a cult big enough to force the authorities to treat it with respect.  And that is the only difference I can see."
~ Robert Anton Wilson
[Perspicacity, thou art RAW!]

!          "Due to pollution, cars pose a mortal threat to the security of every nation." 1
     "Cars have freed the American spirit and given us the chance to chase our dreams." 2

~ Al Gore
1 Earth in the Balance, 1992
2 speech to the Economic Club of Detroit, 1999
[Truth in Office?]

C          "Future historians will liken the development of the Internet to the invention of the printing press, the discovery of writing, and the taming of fire.  And one key aspect of the new age and the new technologies it stems from is that it is inherently decentralized.  It disperses power.  It is inherently libertarian and will create lebensraum for more sovereign individuals than we've seen since we gave up the caves. "
~ Don Lobo Tiggre
[The Internet = Freedom!]

C          "My personal wish to libertarians all around the world would be that they stop waiting for permission to be free.  Waiting until they establish a libertarian government before they are free will keep them in chains forever.  Much better to DO FREEDOM, live freer NOW, and teach others to do the same.  The rest of the world will come around on its own, or it won't - nobody can be forced to be free. "
~ Don Lobo Tiggre
[Right On!]

C          "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.  We ask not your counsels or arms.  Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.  May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
~ Samuel Adams
August 1, 1776
[Amen!]

C          "Historical examination of the right to bear arms, from English antecedents to the drafting of the Second Amendment, bears proof that the right to bear arms has consistently been, and should still be, construed as an individual right."
~ U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings
[(There ARE no "group rights".)]

C          "It is a sad day in America when the courts have become so corrupt that they allow lawsuits against gun-makers for the crimes of product users."
~ Rankin!
[Sad indeed!]

C          "I'd like to see existing gun laws enforced - starting with the 2nd Amendment."
~ Chris Goodwin
[You've hit the nail on the head!]

C          "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.  Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.  Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force.  Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined...The great object is that every man be armed.  Everyone who is able might have a gun."
~ Patrick Henry
[Oh, Patrick.  We do miss you!]

C          "Government is not reason it is not eloquence it is force!  Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master."
~ George Washington
[May we never forget this.]

C          "The right of revolution is an inherent one.  When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable."
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Personal Memoirs, 1885
[Ya think Government has sort of forgot this?]

C          "Let me make this clear.  First, the Founders of this country, who had a lot more wisdom and common sense than anyone I see on the political scene today, put the Second Amendment in the Constitution to keep the people of this country more powerful than their government.  They had just gotten out from under a tyranny - a tyranny, by the way, which like all tyrannies from Hitler to Mao put heavy emphasis on disarming the people - and wanted to make sure it didn't happen again.  The Second Amendment is the "teeth" of the Constitution and it's about political power, not duck hunting.
     Second, the law abiding gun owners of this country - which is about 99.99% of all people who own guns - aren't the problem.  Criminals are the problem, people who by definition don't obey the laws against assault and stealing and murder.  Let's go after them and enlist as allies in the struggle that vast majority of Americans who own and use guns safely and responsibly."
~ Eric Harris
[Way to say it!]

D          "The constitution never did guarantee freedom of speech and press, and due process of the law, and assembly."
~ Ed Meese
[Say What?!]

C          "To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them..."
~ George Mason
[Ever wonder if our "Public Servants" know this little fact????]

C          "The porn debate is underscored by two fundamentally antagonistic views of the purpose of law in society.
     The first view, to which pro-sex feminists subscribe, is that law should protect choice. 'A woman's body, a woman's right' applies to every peaceful activity a woman chooses to engage in.  The law should come into play only when a woman initiates force or has force initiated against her.  The second view, to which both conservatives and antiporn feminists subscribe, is that law should protect virtue.  Law should enforce proper behavior.  It should come into play whenever there has been a breach of public morality, or a breach of 'women's class interests.'
     This is old whine in new battles.  The issue at stake in pornography debate is nothing less than the age-old conflict between individual freedom and social control. "
~ Wendy McElroy
[Right on, Wendy!]

C          "An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.  They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable."
~ Alan Greenspan
[Gold?  What dat?]

C          "Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."
~ Bertrand Russell
[The foundation of conformity.]

C          "With every new law they pass, the government gains more power, the penalties get more severe, the jails get more crowded, and the intrusions into your private life grow ever greater.  That's the true cost of giving the government the power to prosecute victimless crimes."
~ Bill Winter
[Ain't it de trut!]

C          "Democracy: the system in which we all get the government some people deserve."
~ H.L. Mencken
[That's why the Founding Fathers established a Constitutional Republic.]

C          "We continue with the illusion, believing that there is a right and wrong way this world has to be run, attempting to change everything and everyone that comes into our way, and give no one freedom."
~ Speaking Wind
[He mysteriously died of "heart failure"...]

C          "Gold is absolute objectivity.  It is blind like justice.  It has no politics and ideology, no likes or dislikes, no friends or enemies.  All it recognizes is its possessor, whom it serves faithfully so long as he has it."
~ Charles DeGaulle
[And he was TALL, too!]

C          "I've done way more stupid things on alcohol than I have on pot."
~ Jesse Ventura
[Now that's a candid politician!]

C          "Those, who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~ Benjamin Franklin
[The old S/F Continuum...]

C          "Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.  Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another."
~ Lysander Spooner
1875
[Lest we completely forget...]

C          "Clinton acquitted?!  What fools these American Earthlings be!"
~ Klaatu
[Sad, but true.]

C          "Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection."
~ U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed
99-02-01
Issuing a preliminary injunction to continue blocking enforcement of the Clinton Administration's so-called "Child Online Protection Act."
[Heah come de judge!]

!
     "The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth."
~ Bill Clinton
Oct. 15, 1995 at the University of Connecticut
[You should know, Billy-Boy]

!
     "In a crisis and emergency situation, the free market may not be the best way to distribute resources...  If there's a point in time where we have to take resources and make a judgment on an emergency basis, we will be prepared to do that."
~ John Koskinen
Chairman of President Clinton's Y2K council
[Simply Wepwehensible!]

!
     "On November 1, 1968, the National Bureau of Standards issued a Federal Information Processing Standards Publication (FIPS PUB#4) where it specified the use of 6 digit dates for all information exchange between Federal agencies."
~ Jerome T. Murray and Marilyn J. Murray
Computers in Crisis: How to Avert the Coming Computer Systems Collapse
[Velly intelestink!]

C          "Politicians know just how powerful this word is, Security.  Every time they have some little program they want to offer to the people, a program that will almost certainly rob people of freedom and liberty, the politicians sell that program by adding the 'Security' word to it."
~ Neal Boortz
Libertarian National Convention
July 3, 1998
[As in Social 'Security' ?]

C          "Scalping?  I have no problem with that.  I find it a victimless crime...  We live in a capitalistic society.  It's what someone's willing to pay."

     "Being able to put two rounds into the same hole from 25 meters!  That's gun control."
~ Governor Jesse Ventura
[Give the man a cigar!]

C          "The only thing that can be done about Social Security is to tell people who've been involuntarily putting money into it that they've been taken by some of the most disgusting criminals known to history -- and then abolish the whole thing. Trying to save it is like trying to save smallpox."
~ L. Neil Smith
[Most true!]

C          "The FBI requested expanded capacity to allow up to one person on every residential block in the U.S. to be under wiretap surveillance at all times."
~ Digital Doomsday
[More Big Brother!]

C          "Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State."
~ Ayn Rand
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
[Yes.]

C          "Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth."
~ Alan Greenspan
Director of the Fed
[And he ought to know!]

C          "Nothing is more heart-warming than people freely giving of their own resources to the deserving needy;  nothing more soul-vexing than people forced by the Guns of Government to do other people's bidding."
~ Rankin!
99-01-04
[Right on!]

 !        "On Wednesday, Senator Robert Bennett (R-Utah), who is chairman of the Senate's special Year 2000 Committee, told the National Press Club that if Jan. 1, 2000 came tomorrow, we could lose Western civilization.  This is extremely strong language on Y2K from a national politician - the strongest I have read so far.  I think he is telling the truth.

~ Gary North
July 18, 1998
[Yikes!]

D      "Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful!  This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence.  It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil.  The one thing every man fears is the unknown.  When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."
~ Henry Kissinger
In an address to the Bilderburgers organization meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.  Transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates.
[Ve haf planz!]

C          "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
~ William Pitt
1783
[Machiavelli would understand...]

D      "I am thinking to myself in other countries they are laughing at us twenty four hours a day and I'm thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together [starts to shout] all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death.  We would stone him to death!  [crowd cheers]  Wait!  Shut up!  Shut up!  No shut up!  I'm not finished.  We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes (members of Congress who vote for impeachment) and we'd kill their wives and their children.  We would kill their families.  [stands up screaming]  What is happening in this country?  What is happening?"
~ Alec Baldwin
[Crazy Commie]

C          "The objections by Iraq, Iran, Russia and China against the bombing of Saddam Hussein's infrastructure is about as credible as the Democrat's unprincipled defense of Clinton."
~ Rankin!
98-12-17
[In-credible.]

!
     "The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made."
~ Daniel Schorr
[Renowned, impartial, newscaster?]

C      "All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable."
~ Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience, 1849
[Well, Henry, they used to...]

D      "While there may [be] a tendency to view questions regarding the source of funds being placed with the bank as an infringement on a customer's privacy, failure to have such information can potentially result in severe consequences for the bank...criminal law...desire to avoid the perceived embarrassment of having to obtain such information, can lead to the prosecution for a money laundering violation...illicit activity.  Adoption of, and adherence to, a "Know Your Customer" program can substantially minimize the risks to a bank."
~ FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
12 CFR Parts 208, 211, and 225
[Regulations H, K and Y; Docket No. R-______]
Membership of State Banking Institutions in the Federal Reserve System
(d)(4)(ii)(B)
[But what about Rights?  Freedom?  Privacy?]

C "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?"
~ Thomas Jefferson
98-11-26
[How indeed?]

C "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
~ Charles A. Beard
[But King George thought they were dangerous...]

D "1935 will go down in history! For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration!  Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead in the future!"
~ Adolf Hitler
[Prophetic bastard!]

C "The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States...from keeping their own arms."
~ Samuel Adams
Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788
[Wanna Bet!]

C "Hate Crimes and Concealed Carry - [Columbia, MO] At the October meeting of the Missouri Libertarian Party executive committee a resolution deploring the brutal beating murder of Matthew Shepard was passed.  "We believe that all murders should be punished harshly regardless of the motivation of the killer or the sexual preferences of the victim" commented Jim Givens, chair of the MOLP.  "The justice system has a serious and difficult task establishing the guilt or innocence of the accused as it is" said Jim Givens the Chair of the Missouri Libertarian party.  "It would be a much more difficult process trying to determine the degree of hate in their heart.  A process that would be prone to error" said Givens.

     None of the hate crime legislation proposed by either the Democrats or the Republicans the Democrats would do anything to prevent such crimes.  The executive committee agreed that a better way to prevent such tragedies would be to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons in order to defend themselves.  With legalized concealed carry, thugs would be less inclined to initiate attacks against others."

The Libertarian Party of Missouri
98-10-19
[Right On!]

  ! "Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, our communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century."

~ President Bill Clinton
October 17, 1997 - "National Character Counts" Week
[And, Slick Willy is Honorary Head of the Boy Scouts of America!]

C "...Yes, if an American president had sex in the White House with an Intern and lied to the American people about it, he should resign..."
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton
Today Show, January 1998
[Well....?]

C "Little souls wish you to be unhappy.  It aggravates them to have you joyous, efficient and free.  They like to feel that fate is disciplining you.  It gives their egos wings if yours are clipped.  You can ruin your life in an hour by listening to their puerile opinions."
~ David Seabury
[Don't I know it!]

C "America is at that awkward stage.  It is too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
~ Claire Wolfe
[The Ring of Truth!]

D      "It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.  ... [W]e understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men."
~ Adolph Hitler
[How noble!...N-O-T-!]

D      "Yes, we will have to take action on the basis of information that would never stand up in a court.  And yes, innocent people will have to be killed in the process.  But, we must have this law because of the threat of international terrorism".
~ Secretary of State Shultz, Reagan Administration
[The Ends never justify the Means.]

C "I would admit to sex with the Rockettes and the Pope and two jars of corn oil!"
~ Jim Bohannon
[Thanks for sharing!]

C "If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign...No question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI is an impeachable offense."
~ Bill Clinton
July & August, 1974
Referring to President Nixon
[Well said, Bill!]

C " For the record: as far back as memory reaches (50 years or so), racism has been the definition of stupidity in my family, a way of announcing to the world that you're a brain-dead protoplasmic lump.  A person's race is never the first thing I notice; I'm more concerned with where he or she stands on Bill of Rights enforcement."
~ L. Neil Smith
[Well said, Neil!]

C "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.  His own good, either physical or moral is not a sufficient warrant."
~ John Stuart Mill
[And don't ever forget it!]

D      "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes and I don't think I'd be waving those flags (referring to rainbow-colored gay-pride flags flying from city lampposts in June for "Gay Pride Month) in God's face if I were you...
tolerance of homosexuality will bring terrorist bombs, it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."
~ religious broadcaster Pat Robertson
[Froth on!, ye self-righteous ass!]

C 'The American people don't trust President clinton with their daughters - and they don't trust him with their gun-rights either.'
~ Charleton Heston
New President of the NRA
[Amen!]

C "I think it might be important to point out that this country is a one-party country.  Half of that party is called Republican and half is called Democrat.  It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians."
~ Hugh Downs
On "Politically Incorrect," April 1997
[Right On, Hugh!]

C "We here in Washington don't have all the answers.  You people out there in the 50 states shouldn't assume that we do.  If you value your freedom, don't leave it all up to the big government."
~ Barry Goldwater
[Ain't it de trut!]

C "If it's dangerous to allow individuals to protect themselves, how much more dangerous it is to give that power to government."
~ Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged

D      "Meat is murder!"
~ P.E.T.A.
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
[Check their mouths for canine teeth!]

C "Of the various pleasures that man can offer himself, the greatest is pride - the pleasure he takes in his own achievements and in the creation of his own character.  The pleasure he takes in the character and achievements of another human being is that of admiration.  The highest expression of the most intense union of these two responses - pride and admiration - is romantic love.  Its celebration is sex."
~ Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness
[Mmmm-Mmmmm, Good!]

!

. . .

"18.  Clinton then took Jones' hand and pulled her toward him, so that their
        bodies were in close proximity.

  19.  Jones removed her hand from his and retreated several feet.

  20.  However, Clinton approached Jones again. He said: "I love the way your
         hair flows down your back" and "I love your curves."  While saying
         these things, Clinton put his hand on Plaintiff's leg and started sliding it
         toward the hem of Plaintiff's culottes.  Clinton also bent down to attempt
         to kiss Jones on the neck.

  21.  Jones exclaimed, "What are you doing?" and escaped from Clinton's
         physical proximity by walking away from him.  Jones tried to distract
         Clinton by chatting with him about his wife.  Jones later took a seat at
         the end of the sofa nearest the door.  Clinton asked Jones: "Are you
         married?"  She responded that she had a regular boyfriend.   Clinton
         then approached the sofa and as he sat down he lowered his trousers
         and underwear exposing his erect penis and asked Jones to "kiss it."

  22.  There were distinguishing characteristics in Clinton's genital area that
         were obvious to Jones.

  23.  Jones became horrified, jumped up from the couch, stated that she was
         "not that kind of girl" and said: "Look, I've got to go."  She attempted to
         explain that she would get in trouble for being away from the
         registration desk.

  24.  Clinton, while fondling his penis said: "Well, I don't want to make you do
         anything you don't want to do."  Clinton then stood up and pulled up his
         pants and said: "If you get in trouble for leaving work, have Dave call me
         immediately and I'll take care of it."  As Jones left the room Clinton
         looked sternly at Jones and said: "You are smart.  Let's keep this
         between ourselves."

  25.  Jones believed "Dave" to be the same David Harrington, of whom
         Clinton previously referred.  Clinton, by his comments about Harrington
         to Jones, affirmed that he had control over Jones' employment, and that
         he was willing to use that power.  Jones became fearful that her refusal
         to succumb to Clinton's advances could damage her in her job and
         even jeopardize her employment."
. . .

~ Paula Jones
(in her affidavit against Slick Willy]
[And we elected this character - twice!]

D      "Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years.  These are primarily for outward consumption.  There will be no significant internal changes within Russia other than for cosmetic purposes.  Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep."
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
(to the Soviet Politburo, 1987)
[Now why would they want to do that?]

C "As libertarians, we must know the know before we can walk the walk
- much less teach the know."
~ Rankin!
[Right On!]

C      "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Parliament of Whores (1991)
[Ain't it de trut!]

C "An initiative-petition seeking to have the people vote on private things
as if they were public - is immoral."
~ Rankin!
[How clear he is!]

C      "A welfare state is what happens when you let a government of the people and for the people BUY the people."
~ Anonymous
[Sad, but true!]

D      "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..."
~ Bill Clinton
(USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A]
[Our trusted Leader?!]

D      "Waiting periods are only a step.  Registration is only a step.  The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
~ Janet Reno
U. S. Attorney General
[Whatever happened to her oath to uphold the Constitution?!]

C "Don't feel guilty for having things you've earned."
~ Dr. Laura
97-01-28
[Good advice!]

  ! "76% - why that's almost 3/4s!"
~ Jim Bohannon & Senator Ashcroft
[More victims of "New Math"?]

D      Anyone who believes in UFOs should be stoned to death.
~ Pat Robertson
on the 700 Club
[Didn't this character run for President?!]

  ! "A well-regulated population being necessary to the security of a police state, the right of the Government to keep and destroy arms shall not be infringed."
~ Vin Suprynowicz
(Parodying the 2nd Amendment.]

C "In an instant in time, one image was graven on the hearts and souls of the world.  One man, nameless, weaponless, standing against three tanks in a street all others had fled.  In that instant, that man, whatever else he has done, whatever else he does in the future, stood forth as Libertarianism in all its glory.  That man with his arm upraised told those tank crews:
' Thou shalt not commit aggression.'."
~ Charles Curley
[Bless that Chinaman!]

C "The right of self-defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible.  Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."
~ Henry St. George Tucker (in Blackstone's Commentaries)
["...shall not be infringed."!]

C "Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
~ Robert A. Heinlein
[You don't say!]

C "A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being or to advocate or delegate its initiation.  Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians whether they realize it or not.  Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."
~ L. Neil Smith
[Right On!]

? "I guess I'm sort of amphibious!"
~ Atheleete who does one thing right-handed and another left-handed.
[Ain't it de trut!]

  !      "Black Americans have the same goals and aspirations as normal Americans do."
~ Bill Clinton
On the Black Entertainment Network, no less!
[Normal?!]

C      "The hardest thing to understand is the Income Tax."
~ Albert Einstein
[An Einy-Stumper!]

C "Government: The smegma of Society."
~ Rankin!
[How sad, but true!]

C "Arrogance goeth before a Place-Putting."
~ Rankin!
[How true!]

C "There's lies, Damn lies and then there's electrons."
~ BUNI
 [How true!]

C "Inconsistency is the hallmark of little minds."
~ Rankin!
[How true!]

C The back of the t-shirts of the MU College Democrats"Tax, Spend and Party with the College Democrats".
~ The back of the College Democrats t-shirts
97-06-17
[Truth in advertising!]

C "In the Kingdom of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is Suspect!"
~ Rankin!
[How true!]

C "A weekend in Chicago practicing World Domination."
~ The flyers for a college Model United Nations
97-06-17
[Truth in advertising!]

C "A little politic obeisance may not hurt; when you get the Power - you can start the nut-cuttin'!"
~ Rankin!
[How true!]

C " It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow.  Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed? "
~ James Madison
Federalist Papers No. 62
["Ignorance of the Law is no excuse."]

C " It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law.  This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. "
~ James Fenimore Cooper
The American Democrat, 1838
[That is why this is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic!]

C " A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. "
~ Gerald R. Ford
1976
[Think about it!]

C " To drag the presidency any lower Clinton would have to do the limbo. "
~ Alex Castellanos
[Sad, but True!]

C " 'One Day at a Time' can't prepare for Marriage, Birth, Graduation, Retirement or Death."
~ Rankin!
[How true!]

C "When lawn-darts are outlawed, only outlaws will have lawn-darts."
~ Rankin!
[How true!]

C "The best way to get the benefit of a good law is to enforce it; the best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it."
~ Rankin!
[How true!]

D " It is a fortunate thing for rulers that men do not think. "
~ Adolph Hitler
[How true!]

C " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is its natural manure. "
~ Thomas Jefferson
[Boston Tea Party, Shot Heard Round the World....]

C " When a jury acquits a defendant even though he or she clearly appears to be guilty, the acquittal conveys significant information about community attitudes and provides a guideline for future prosecutorial discretion...Because of the high acquittal rate in prohibition cases in the 1920s and early 1930s, prohibition laws could not be enforced.  The repeal of these laws is traceable to the refusal of juries to convict those accused of alcohol traffic. "
~ Sheflin and Van Dyke
Law and Contemporary Problems, 43, No. 4, 1980
[Hmmmm.]

C " The Clinton-Gore proposal, to be expected, is pure liberal social engineering.  The White House's message to the American people: Big Brother knows best.   If you do exactly what he wants you to do, how he wants you to do it and when he wants you to do it, then you might get a pathetic little break on your federal taxes.  Sure, you may actually end up spending more money on professional tax advice to figure out if you qualify, but that's the price of doing business with the IRS in the 1990s.
. . .
     The average U.S. family today pays more in federal, state and local taxes than for food, clothing, transportation and housing--combined.  No wonder two incomes in a family still cannot do the job one income could in previous generations.  This is unacceptable in a free society, both morally and fiscally.  Just to return to the level of taxation we had when Mr. Clinton took office would require a tax cut of $160 billion per year.  But no one is proposing anything close to this. "
~ Steve Forbes
97-07-15 Wall Street Journal
[You betchum Red Ryder!]

D      "...both political parties..."
~ Bill Clinton
[Oh, let's not mention the Libertarians, Greens, Tax-Payers, etc!]

D      " Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed. "
~ Sara Brady
Chairman, Handgun Control
quoted in the 94-01 "The National Educator"
[The true agenda revealed!]

C      " We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. "
~ Ayn Rand in "The Nature of Government"
[Shades of "Ominous Parallels"!]

C " I'm a libertarian. "
~ Art Bell, host of Coast-to-Coast & Dreamland
97-06-17
[Proud to have you, Art!]

C " Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it -- that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life -- that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence. "
~ Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged
1956
[How true - then, and now!]

C " I'm a libertarian.  It's fun to be in a room of people who think like you do.  I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it -- or don't know. "
~ Movie star Kurt Russell
97-04-21
[And so is Kurt's son, Boston!]


? " And then he just turned around and went 360 degrees in the opposite direction. "
~ Honnaleah Hunnihump
97-05-07
[Her ducks are lined upside down!]

C " Philosophy, which determines politics, is the most important thing in life - but there's much more to life than that. "
~ Rankin!
[Wisdom!]

C " Marijuana is not harmful unless it is taken in enormously excessive amounts...We are endangering this country, endangering our whole law enforcement situation, damaging the trust between younger and older people by it's prohibition. "
~ Margaret Mead
1969  Senate Hearings - Washington, DC
[Right again!]

C " The Supreme Court ruled today that State and local governments cannot require candidates for public office to pass a drug test.  The justices, by an 8-1 vote, struck down a Georgia law as a violation of the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches.  The law was challenged in 1994 by three Libertarian candidates who all passed their tests. "
~  AP - Washington, DC
97-04-15
[The High Court gets it right again!]

C " Baseball?  Yeah, I useta watch that stuff.  Could even say I was addicted, like.  But then the players went on strike..an I dono, I sorta got out of the habit of wasting my time watchin' a bunch of over-paid kids playin' a dumb game that don't mean nuthin' to nobody - less they got a fin on the game.  So I been coming here to the library - improvin' my mind like.   I come a long way, but I gotta long way yet to go - 'miles tuh go before I sleep' - ya know. "
~  Manin DeStreat
97-04-02
[In an off-the-cuff interview outside the New York Public Library.]

C " My Fellow Americans...Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa.  I have sinned.  I have lusted in my heart for power and in the process have sullied the Office of the Presidency.  I was a corrupt Governor, and I have been a corrupt President.  I committed fraud in the Whitewater scam.  I was sexist when I dropped trou in front of Gennifer Flowers.  I did not physically murder him, but I did drive my long-time friend, Vince Foster, to commit suicide.  I committed another felony when I allowed FBI files and White House facilities to be used for partisan politics.  I committed treason when I dealt with agents of the Chinese Communists for my personal economic gain.  I have always been a cheat, a liar and a phoney.  I am a disgrace to the Presidency and a shame on these United States.
     For that reason, I am hereby resigning and throwing my support behind the rightful choice for President - Harry Browne.  Via Con Dios. "
~  President Bill Clinton
97-04-01
[The man who would do this would have a great deal of character!]
April Fool!

C " The majority's legal analysis was flawed"...[It showed] ``an extraordinary and unwarranted deference" [for judgments by Congress,] ``a profound fear of delving into complex economic matters, and a willingness to substitute untested assumptions for evidence. "
~  Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
97-03-31
[In a dissenting opinion to the scurrilous cable-television decision of the High Court.]

C " Sexual Harassment?  In the normal course of things, Person-01 propositions Person-02 and Person-02 either accepts or declines.   The problem comes when Person-01 doesn't take "No." for an answer - or, when Person-02 makes a big deal out of being asked.  For Pete's sake, how else is one to get laid? "
~ Rankin!
[Communication - not the Problem, but the Solution!]

* "I find the paradigm of benevolent aliens more credible and more appealing than the nightmare myth of the crucified son of a self-centered god. "
~  Rev. McCray
97-03-30 (Easter)
[No comment.]

! " The area of Chinese/American relations is a land of many rivers. "
~  Vice President Al Gore
97-03-22
[A bold and forthright comment on the state of human rights in China.]

C " The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. "
~  National Review
94-10-24
[Government: the Problem - not the Solution!.]

C "Great minds think - Consistently."
~ Rankin!
[Consistency is a hob-goblin to little minds.]

C " Rescue Tragedy - not Stupidity. "
~  Dr. Laura
97-03-12
[Don't interfere with gene-pool cleansing!]

C " The U.S. Government - the best government money can buy! "
~  Bob Brinker
Money Talk
97-02-02
[Well, he almost said it!]

C " There are rats in the White House. "
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton
97-02-??
[She finally admitted it!]

C " Government can't ease all pain. In fact, government sometimes rubs the wound raw and makes the healing harder. ...we must, individually, all of us, accept our share of responsibility. "
~ J. C. Watts
State-of-the-Union Rebuttal-Speech
97-02-04
(Watts did not call the Reverend Jesse Jackson and D.C. Mayor, Marion Barry -- "poverty-pimps".)

C " I am a Libertarian. "
~ Clint Eastwood
Playboy
March issue
[Ace Actor and former Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.]

C " I plead guilty... "
~ Bill Clinton
Prayer Breakfast
97-02-06
[I didn't say it, HE did!]

C " Day without Glisson like day without hangnail. "
~ Lao Tsu
1313 B.C.
[Wise saying.]

C " Politicians are prostitutes - they're jesters - they're chameleons.  Politicians would become hermaphrodites if they thought it would get them an extra vote.  Statesmen, on the other hand, are leaders.  They do their best to guide the people wisely. "
~ Rankin!
[Is NICE quote, no?]

D " O. J. Simpson vowed that he will not rest until he has found the 'real' killers of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.  So far, most of