COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
July 08, 2009 at 04:32 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero, Congressional Record, vol. 114 (April 25, 1968) p. 10635. This passage was reprinted in U.S. News & World Report (July 29, 1968) p. 15.The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
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Hermann Goering
July 08, 2009 at 04:28 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Mark Gerzon, Leading Through Conflict (Harvard Business School Press, 2006) p. 22.Naturally the common people don’t want war. Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist disctatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
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Michael Scheuer
July 08, 2009 at 04:24 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Michael Scheuer, Imperial Hubris (Potomac Books Inc., 2008) p. XV.U.S. forces and policies are completing the radicalization of the Islamic world, something Osama bin Laden has been trying to do with substantial but incomplete success since the early 1990s. As a result, I think it fair to conclude that the USA remains bin Laden’s only indispensable ally.
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George Washington
July 08, 2009 at 04:21 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
George Washington, 5th Annual Message, Address to Congress (December 1793).There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
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Benjamin Franklin
July 08, 2009 at 04:16 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
William Cabell Bruce, Benjamin Franklin, Self-revealed (The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1917) p. 168.The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure, and the negligent.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 08, 2009 at 04:12 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Jefferson, Paul Leicester Ford, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1807-1815 Vol. IX (1898) p. 520.I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.
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Ron Paul
July 08, 2009 at 04:06 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Ron Paul, Dietary Supplements and Health Freedom (2005) http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul246.html.Millions of Americans take dietary supplements every day, and the numbers are growing as the Baby Boom generation ages. More and more Americans understandably are frustrated with our government-controlled health care system. They have concluded that vitamins, minerals, and other supplements might help them stay healthy and less dependent on the system. They use supplements because they can buy them freely at stores and research them freely on the internet, without government interference in the form of doctors, prescriptions, HMOs, and licenses. In other words, they use supplements because they are largely free to make their own choices, in stark contrast to the conventional medical system.
“But we live in an era of unbridled government regulation of both our personal lives and the economy, and Food and Drug administration bureaucrats burn to regulate supplements in the same manner as prescription drugs.
“The health nannies insist that many dietary supplements are untested and unproven, and therefore dangerous. But the track record for FDA-approved drugs hardly inspires confidence. In fact, far more Americans have died using approved pharmaceuticals than supplements. Not every dietary supplement performs as claimed, but neither does every FDA drug.
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Bob Wallace
July 08, 2009 at 04:03 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Bob Wallace, Morris Fishbein - AMA Enemy Of American Health, (2002). http://www.angelhealingcenter.com/AMA.htmThe cure for these problems? Remove the state backing from the AMA and FDA, and unleash the power and creativity of the free market. Many people have been brainwashed into thinking the state protects them. The truth is the exact opposite.
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H. L. Mencken
July 08, 2009 at 04:00 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
The American Murcury Magazine (April, 1924).The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Fritz Grogtzkruger
July 08, 2009 at 03:58 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Clyde Cleveland, Edward Noyes, Restoring the Heart of America (Better Books, LLC, Iowa, 2002) p. 127, 128.In all that I’ve heard about the animal confinement issue, I find that people on both sides can’t see the forest for the trees…In promoting regulation of the livestock business the anti-corporate people have transferred the responsibility of people to government. This fact has, in every case,worked against the anti-corporate cause. They shoot themselves in the foot and go on like mind-numbed robots demanding more government intervention in our lives. The corporates smile all the way to the lagoon as they see the rights of the people handed to government and independent farmers quit. Their buildings keep going up and there’s nothing we can do, because property rights have become a forgotten concept. If their stench pollutes our picnic we can’t complain, because they’ve complied with the regulations we begged for, and the legislature passed to buy votes. In a world without all these regulations, the stench would be called an infringement on property rights, the building wouldn’t have been built, and the picnic wouldn’t stink.
