Friday, April 17, 2015

laws & leaders

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule
H. L. Mencken

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
Murray N. Rothbard

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"

The American government creates 50,000 new laws each year, and over 2 million new regulations. Then we are told by the courts that 'Ignorance of the law is no excuse!
Lorne Strider