Some favorite quotes of mine

I’m a bit out of profound thoughts right now, but I oughtn’t deprive you all of some profound thoughts:

“Obama’s health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it and whose members will be exempt from it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is broke. What could possibly go wrong?”

(found online by a blog commenter)

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive… [for] 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, God in the Dock

“The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools.”

Herbert Spencer

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

Thomas Jefferson

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Goethe

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

P.J. O’Rourke

“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.”

Lord Acton

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the rich out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend is about the end of any nation.”

Adrian Rogers