...[t]he Constitution Conferred Only A Few Specific

The Welfare State Is Institutionalized Crime - 'organized Plunder,' As The French Economist Frederic Bastiat Called It. It Systematizes What Is Intrinsically Wrong: Forcing Some People To Support Others. The Democrats Favor The Indefinite Expansion Of The Welfare State, Perpetually Increasing The Ratio Of Force To Freedom In Society.

If You Want Government To Intervene Domestically, You’re A Liberal. If You Want Government To Intervene Overseas, You’re A Conservative. If You Want Government To Intervene Everywhere, You’re A Moderate. If You Don’t Want Government To Intervene Anywhere, You’re An Extremist.

The Second Amendment, Like The Rest Of The Bill Of Rights, Was Meant To Inhibit Only The Federal Government, Not The States. The Framers, As The Federalist Papers Attest (see No. 28), Saw The State Militias As Forces That Might Be Summoned Into Action Against The Federal Government Itself, If It Became Tyrannical.

The Chances Of Your Being Harmed By Terrorists Are Mathematically Minute. The Chance Of Your Being Robbed By Your Own Government? That's Easy: 100 Per Cent.

It Would Be A Healthy Exercise For Every Politician To Look In The Mirror Every Morning And Remind Himself That He Holds Office Only Because, In A Two-man Race Against Another Mediocrity, A Modest Majority Of Those Half-informed People Who Imagined That Their Votes Mattered Reckoned That He Was The Lesser Evil. And They Weren't Too Sure About That.