Sigh, not another quote thread.
This one with a difference, there are some wildly conflicting POVs on this board, so how about duking it out using only a quote that in some way opposes the previous quote. Nothing too rigid otherwise we'd get stuck on one subject.
I imagine it will basically be the freedom fighters against the control freaks.
Here goes:
"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the
beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would
otherwise involve... But how is this legal plunder to be identified?
Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to
them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn't belong.
See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing
what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then
abolish that law without delay ... No legal plunder; this is the
principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic."
-- Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author.
Originally posted by WajomaSorry, Waj. I just couldn't resist:
Sigh, not another quote thread.
This one with a difference, there are some wildly conflicting POVs on this board, so how about duking it out using only a quote that in some way opposes the previous quote. Nothing too rigid otherwise we'd get stuck on one subject.
I imagine it will basically be the freedom fighters against the control freaks.
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-- Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Originally posted by HalitoseBut you weren't silent
Sorry, Waj. I just couldn't resist:
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
— Harry S. Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
Originally posted by Wajoma.."Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer...."
".....See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime......"
-- Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author.
-- Thomas Paine-- intro to Common Sense.
Originally posted by slimjim"But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. ... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding."
Chinga su madre Che. The soldier who shot him.
-- Jeff Snyder
Source: "Who's Under Assault in the 'Assault Weapon' Ban?", American Rifleman,
Originally posted by WajomaI've never said I supported a gun ban. I own a few of them myself.
"But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. ... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the l ...[text shortened]... ff Snyder
Source: "Who's Under Assault in the 'Assault Weapon' Ban?", American Rifleman,