"My philosophy, in essence,
is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral
purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity,
and reason as his only absolute." -- Ayn Rand
"America's
abundance was created not by public sacrifices to "the common good," but by
the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests
and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people
to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs,
higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with
every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole
country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the
way." -- Ayn Rand
"In general
the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one
class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire
"A democracy
cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the
voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure.
From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising
the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy
always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The
average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage
to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to
liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness
to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from
dependency back to bondage." -- Alexander Tyler
"Comrades!
We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."
-- Nikita Khrushchev, February 25, 1956 20th Congress of the Communist Party
"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation
of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business
of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality.
This is not good at all." -- Vladimir Lenin, as quoted in "Not by Politics
Alone.
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is
best for society." -- Hillary Clinton, 1993
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary
Americans ..."-- President Bill Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A
"A government
which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul." --
George Bernard Shaw
"Of all
tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most
oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent
moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity
may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will
torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C. S. Lewis
"Solve"
and "Problems" are not in the constitution. – Doug Newman
