Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
"The state does not fear firearms, as such; it is well known that a firearm is nothing more than a tool. What the state fears more than anything is the public’s willingness to use firearms in the defense of their lives, property and traditional values.”
Tim Case

“I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at ‘big brother’ while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough."
Joe Stack

“Government is not established to protect individuals; it is established to protect power. People don’t establish governments to secure themselves; some people establish governments to formalize or strengthen their rule over others.”
Darian Worden

“Life is not safe, nor will it ever be. "Safety" and "living well" have never been compatible.”
Kent McManigal

“If justice be a natural principle, then it is necessarily an immutable one; and can no more be changed — by any power inferior to that which established it — than can the law of gravitation, the laws of light, the principles of mathematics, or any other natural law or principle whatever; and all attempts or assumptions, on the part of any man or body of men — whether calling themselves governments, or by any other name — to set up their own commands, wills, pleasure, or discretion, in the place of justice, as a rule of conduct for any human being, are as much an absurdity, an usurpation, and a tyranny, as would be their attempts to set up their own commands, wills, pleasure, or discretion, in the place of any and all the physical, mental, and moral laws of the universe.”
Lysander Spooner

“There is nothing wrong with telling people that taxation is robbery, that regulation is trespass, that drug laws are assault and robbery, that politicians are criminals, and that the state is a monstrous criminal agency.”
Ben O’Neill

“Whether we are considering licensing, the establishment of tariffs, or the opening of the federal treasury for wholesale looting to benefit the friends of those holding the keys to the treasury, it is always governmental force that is called upon to transmit the virus of institutionalism. The nation-state – which has become the "typhoid Mary" in all of this – continues to expose otherwise healthy tissue to the disease-ridden influence that has reduced Western civilization to a terminal state.”
Butler Shaffer

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From the Darkness:

“Usually a lack of profits is not considered a good result, but compared to the record loss the industry reported a year ago it represents a significant improvement.”
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, commenting on the FDIC’s largest deficit on record.

“The science regarding climate change is settled, and human activity is responsible for global warming.”
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

"[Ron] Paul isn't a traditional conservative. His obsession with long-decided monetary policy and isolationism are not his only half-baked crusades."
David Harsanyi, Reason Magazine

"It's about jobs. In it's life, it [the health bill] will create 4 million jobs -- 400,000 jobs almost immediately."
Nancy Pelosi

“The very well-off [in Pakistan] do not pay their fair share for the services that are needed, in health and education primarily.”
Queen Hillary, spreading Amerkan Marxism to other countries.