Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"When a single remote legislature controls a continent, then a small group wishing to dominate the whole need suborn only a few hundred members of its Congress and a few judges on its Supreme Court. By corrupting one city, they can impose any law they choose on all. That the people of many states find the law odious matters little as they can do nothing about it.

If however the people of each state made their own laws, the small group in New York would have to purchase fifty legislatures, each being under the scrutiny of the people of the state. The more local the government, the more responsive to the will of the governed. It would not be possible to establish a uniform despotism."

Fred Reed

"I think we can safely say that the Trump experiment is a failure, or at least far less effective than many in Texas had hoped it would be. Trump was sold as the one man who could hold the line against the establishment in Washington, but instead he’s many times proved to be someone who will go along with establishment, while complaining about it in the process in an effort to placate his base. It’s time Texas stop putting its faith in Washington saviors, flashy messianic figures that promise different while delivering same. We’d be better off if we’d fix things on our own, as an independent republic, because it’s clear now that Washington will not fix things for us."

Ryan Thorson

"If one looks closely at the Trump administration, they will find that the people within the cabinet are changing constantly, but the elitist and globalist organizations and ideologies those people represent are always present within the White House. They never leave.

The swamp is not being 'drained,' it is simply being shifted around so that the American people can't keep up with the names of the swamp creatures and the positions they hold."

Bob Livingston

"Americans acting through the U.S. government have no right to inflict so-called 'good', which is far more frequently evil anyway, on any people or portion of a people of another nation. For the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. to argue that 'states are compelled to take their own [interfering] action' is an insult to international law and relations, and yet it perpetuates the thinking and tragically the very bloody action at the highest levels of the U.S. government that have gone on for far too many years. Is it not time to see and say clearly that no nation is above the law of nations, and that no nation can enforce its perverted version of that law in the name of a compulsion or even a strong feeling of moral obligation?"

Michael Rozeff

"Economic globalism brings wealth. Political globalism brings poverty. 

Economic globalism is about getting government out the way. It's about laissez-faire, being hands, off, and promoting the freedom to innovate, trade, and associate freely with others. 

Political globalism, on the other hand, is about control, rules, central planning, and coercion. 

Some careless observers may lump all this together and declare 'globalism' to be a wonderful thing. But when we pay a little more attention to the details, things aren't quite so clear."

Ryan McMaken

"In 1913 the relationship between the State and Society was reversed. Areas which had heretofore been considered within the private domain, sacred ground so to speak, were now invaded by the arrogant and enriched State, and within thirty years the individual was squeezed into a corner so small that even his soul lacked elbow room. His case was far worse than it was in 1776; in exchange for an income tax King George III would have conceded every point made against him by the colonists, and might even have done penance for past sins. But, such was the character of these Americans that they challenged him to battle because he presumed to impose a miserable tax on tea. What they won at Yorktown was lost by their offspring one hundred and thirty-two years later."

Frank Chodorov

"If the stars in the sky or the atoms of uranium disintegrate in spontaneous explosion, it is not because their substance has lost its balance. It is because matter has attempted to expand beyond the impassable barriers set to every accumulation. Their mass has become too big. 

If the human body has become diseased, it is, as in cancer, because a cell, or a group of cells, has begun to outgrow its allotted narrow limits. 

And if the body of a people becomes diseased with the fever of aggression, brutality, collectivism, or massive idiocy, it is not because it has fallen victim to bad leadership or mental derangement. 

It is because human beings, so charming as individuals or in small aggregations, have been welded into over-concentrated social units such as mobs, unions, cartels or great powers."

Leopold Kohr

"When it come to guns, the paper on your targets at the range pays far more dividends than reliance on the fetid slaver document celebrated and interpreted differently by left and right alike.

The Second Amendment doesn’t protect shit, it merely codifies a pre-existing or a priori right to self-defense. The government can no more nullify the right than it can force people to shut up, not drive and breathe. This doesn’t mean they won’t try and attempt to cloak their evil in legalese and legislative nonsense. This doesn’t mean they won’t pass law after law stacked like skyscrapers in the august chambers where the robed government employees will rubber stamp the nonsense when they take the time to bother doing anything.

At least a repeal of the Second Amendment would put some honesty in the entire enterprise by the government supremacists to make America England again and be a clone of the sinking island hell-hole across the Atlantic."

Bill Buppert

"The slaughter committed by barbarians would not add up to one-tenth the horrors perpetrated by rulers with good intentions."

Isabel Paterson

"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."

Dalai Lama

"The rifle itself has no moral stature since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."

Jeff Cooper