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Owned by Unordained - Created on 03/15/2007 - Never edited 12/25/06 :: Folder :: Government & Politics11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice01/28/05 :: Person :: O'Rourke07/24/03 :: Folder :: Industry & Commerce 09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeIf government were a product, selling it would be illegal.  11/23/05 :: Quote :: Henry David ThoreauAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. 11/23/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Guerrilla News Network 10/18/04 :: Article :: The problem with Conservatives and Liberals :: A bizarre thought I had to get down on paper09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeOne of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. 02/19/04 :: Article :: Minority Report :: Conflict of interest in the Minority Party09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. 04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.  09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeThere's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. 09/04/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Deadly Franchise07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Human Rights Watch03/02/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Civil Rights Act of 196402/18/04 :: Article :: Civil Disobedience and other meaningless buzzwords. :: The Los Angeles Gay Marriage Contraversy02/11/05 :: Article :: Nuclear Proliferation :: This is almost funny.02/03/04 :: Article :: Attack of the Linux geeks! :: They're all a bunch of commie terrorists, out to get SCO, don't you know?02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations)01/21/05 :: Article :: Government run like a business :: For-profit, non-profit, or for-loss -- what's a government expected to do?12/06/04 :: Article :: Ensis' Reproachable Tactics :: More tips on how to convince idiots and kill dialog09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mahatma GandhiFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. 07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonA wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. 03/31/04 :: Article :: Dark future for the law? :: 02/17/04 :: Article :: Justice and Power ...and nearly Powerless Justice :: Almost nobody is looking out for you02/17/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Hnida's story02/13/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Leaky Wing gets the squeeze? 10/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: My Baby Boy's American Freedoms Vanish In Occupied Palestine 03/30/09 :: Article :: The Abortion Debate Is Stupid. :: It seriously is.03/02/04 :: Article :: Equal opportunity :: Maybe we shouldn't always spell things out02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so!11/21/03 :: Article :: Knight to Cell block C3. :: Crack is the incorrect way to kill a fetus11/16/05 :: Quote :: Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court JusticeThe greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. 11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Benefits and obligations that come naturally with marriage 10/07/04 :: Article :: The Election :: Are we sick of the candidates yet?09/04/03 :: Quote :: Lyndon JohnsonYou do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Jean-Paul SartreWhen the rich make war it's the poor who die. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Adolf Hitler (disputed)What luck for the rulers that men do not think! 08/29/08 :: Quote :: Harry S TrumanWhenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. 08/26/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Inside Ronald Reagan08/15/05 :: Quote :: R.S. Surtees (author)More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonYet it is easy to foresee, from the nature of things, that the encroachments of the State governments will tend to an excess of liberty which will correct itself, while those of the General Government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonAn honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. 07/08/05 :: Quote :: GhandiI believe that no government can exist for a single moment without the co-operation of the people, willing or forced, and if people suddenly withdraw their co-operation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill. 07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Republican Party Platform (2000)07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Green Party Platform (current)07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Democratic Party Platform (2000)06/07/05 :: Article :: Scalia on Constitutional Interpretation :: The living Constitution be damned06/02/04 :: Quote :: Lao-TzuA leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
05/30/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Libertarian Platform (current)05/28/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard ShawCriminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. 04/18/04 :: Quote :: Henry Stimson (Secretary of State)... gentlemen do not read each other's mail. 04/07/04 :: Quote :: Theodore RooseveltTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. 03/23/04 :: Article :: Rockets :: We don't need no stinking handcuffs!02/25/07 :: Quote :: Bertrand RussellThere is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. 02/05/04 :: Article :: An Ounce of Prevention :: What if The People don't want to do what is good for them?01/28/08 :: Quote :: Hannah ArendtThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. 01/24/05 :: Quote :: Charles de GaulleThe graveyards are full of indispensable men. 01/22/04 :: Article :: The Real Voodoo :: The Recession argument is conducted poorly01/08/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: UK report upcoming on psychosis effects of cannabis (pot) |
