COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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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.
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National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" (2007)
July 07, 2009 at 08:01 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
National Public Radio, "All Things Considered," (July 31, 2007)Mayors across the nation are trying to do something meaningful in their communities to address climate change. More than 600 have pledged to try to meet the target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions set by the Kyoto Protocol, even though the federal government won’t make the commitment.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
July 07, 2009 at 07:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from a speech published in the Chicago Tribune (May 16, 2003).The federal government is America’s biggest polluter and the Department of Defense is the government’s worst offender…The Pentagon is responsible for more than 21,000 potentially contaminated sites and, according to the EPA, the military may have poisoned as much as 40 million acres, a little larger than Florida. That result might be considered an act of war if committed by a foreign power.
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Admiral Eugene Carroll
July 07, 2009 at 07:46 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Eugene Carroll, before the First International Conference on US Military Toxics and Bases Clean-up (1997).In a mindless, criminally negligent process, we poured resources into military expansion both at home and abroad without any regard for the environmental consequences. Pollution was ignored on the grounds that ‘national security’ took absolute priority over all other considerations.
