The Free State Project is a good idea.
The Free State Project is a good idea.
Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.
Václav Havel, On the theme of an opposition
There is one principle which is eternal; it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, whenever necessity requires, and no power has a right to forbid it, should the last extreme arrive, but I anticipate no such extreme, but caution is the parent of safety.
Joseph Smith, in a letter to his wife Emma from Carthage Jail, Illinois, 27 June 1844
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it... No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law, and no courts are bound to enforce it.
16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256
Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to mere wind.
Yea, behold I do not fear your power nor your authority, but it is my God whom I fear ... I seek not for power, but to pull it down. I seek not for honor of the world, but for the glory of my God and the freedom and welfare of my country.
The Book of Mormon, Alma 60: 28, 36
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
mountebank:
Under a free market, each additional person is another pair of hands and another mind. Under socialism, each new person is another mouth to feed.
Richard W. Fulmer, American Spectator, October 1996
The potential transformation of the Establishment Clause [of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution] from a guardian of religious liberty into a guarantor of public secularism raises prospects at once dismal and dreadful ... maybe there are not any principles involved. Maybe it is just another effort to ensure that intermediate institutions, such as the religions, do not get in the way of the government's will. Perhaps, in short, it is a way of ensuring that only one vision of the meaning of reality -- that of the powerful group of individuals called the state -- is allowed a political role. Back in Tocqueville's day, this was called tyranny. Nowadays, all too often, but quite mistakenly, it is called the separation of church and state.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any 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. Who wants a nation of law-
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, p. 411
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
Cicero, 63 BC
I favor ending government involvement in education. See the Alliance for the Separation of School and State.
The tools for defending freedom change -- or are added to -- as time passes. Read From Crossbows to Cryptography.
No national ID, no enumeration at birth. Fight the Fingerprint.
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