“Since every action taken by the people to protect themselves from ‘inflation’ threatens the source of the aristocracy’s wealth, it is necessary for it to prevent these actions by successive restrictions on people’s freedom. History shows that the American people will not submit to this during a time of peace. Therefore, it becomes necessary to manufacture continual wars and threats of war in order to appeal to people’s patriotism, to put up with the ‘inflation’ and the controls for the ‘temporary’ emergency.”

— Howard S. Katz

“In the United States, law enforcement is tasked with investigating crimes in search of the people who did it. They do not examine people in search of crimes. If people were the focus and not the crimes, then nearly every person in the country would be found guilty of violating some law.”

— Dan Bongino

“Hiding the truth about Benghazi, Uranium One, and the contents of those emails from Clinton’s private server, especially as they apply to Obama, made defeating Trump vital. The Obama administration couldn’t just leave the election to chance—Trump had to be kept out of the White House, and the best way to ensure that outcome was to make the Trump-Russia scandal stick. The only problem was no such scandal existed. It had to be invented and orchestrated.”

— Dan Bongino

• “Subversion of justice
• “Punishment without evidence
• “Discarding rights for political gain”

— Greg Gutfield

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

— A. A. Milne

“The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious.
If it injures the conscience it is criminal.”

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.”

— William Havard

“By the report before us, we propose to annihilate, at one stroke, all […] property distinctions and to bow before the idol of universal suffrage. That extreme democratic principle, when applied to the legislative and executive departments of government, has been regarded with terror, by the wise men of every age, because in every European republic, ancient and modern, in which it has been tried, it has terminated disastrously, and been productive of corruption, injustice, violence, and tyranny. And dare we flatter ourselves that we are a peculiar people, who can run the career of history, exempted from the passions which have disturbed and corrupted the rest of mankind? If we are like other races of men, with similar follies and vices, then I greatly fear that our posterity will have reason to deplore in sackcloth and ashes, the delusion of the day.

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“The tendency of universal suffrage is to jeopardize the rights of property, and the principles of liberty. There is a constant tendency in human society, and the history of every age proves it; there is a tendency in the poor to covet and to share the plunder of the rich; in the debtor to relax or avoid the obligation of contracts; in the majority to tyrannize over the minority, and trample down their rights; in the indolent and the profligate, to cast the whole burdens of society upon the industrious and the virtuous; and there is a tendency in ambitious and wicked men to inflame these combustible materials.”

— Chancellor James Kent at New York’s constitutional convention of 1821

“Rousseau had it backwards. We are not born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.”

— Richard Mitchell

“Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.”

— Hilaire Belloc