Conservative quote of the day

[rcrosby]

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mile. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object were to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrart, to keep them in perpetual childhood; it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but is chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principle concerns, directs their energy, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances; what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

Thusit every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less usefull and less frequesnt; it circumvents the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself. The principle of equality has prepared man for all these things, it has predisposed them to endure them, and often to look on them as benefits.


- Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville 1831

[Common Sense]

Ah, what&#39;s a Frenchman know? http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-bag-on-head.gif

[easymoney]

"The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.
- Roughing It"
Mark Twain

"...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.
- The Gilded Age"
Mark Twain

"The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.
- "Official Physic," reprinted in The Twainian, 11/1943"
Mark Twain

[Common Sense]

Old Will Rogers was always making fun of the republicans and President Hoover, but my favorite quote from hime is: "I am not a member of any organized polictical party, I&#39;m a democrat".