“The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.” KnowsStillsWisdomPoliticsWealthPoorSecretEconomyRichBlindDefinitionsDumbLiberalismLazyProductiveDeafHaltUnemployedUneducated Author:Louis O. Kelso
“To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.” PoliticsPrinciplesDemocracyAuthorityTreatsMereDefinitionsOpponentsBetrayTotalitarianismSubversive Author:Jean Francois Revel
“To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.” GovernmentPoliticalPoliticsStepsFieldsConstitutionCongressDefinitionsPossessionBoundariesFederal GovernmentBoundlessFreedom LibertyProperty RightsBill Of RightsSusceptibleAmerican GovernmentConstitutional RightsSeparation Of PowersUs ConstitutionFederalismGeneral WelfareConstitutional GovernmentSingle StepTyranny Founding FathersPower Government Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.” PoliticsLibertyRevolutionDefinitionsThanksCivil WarAgreementSheepShepherdsViewpointsDestroyersLiberatorsOpposing Views Author:Abraham Lincoln