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Order Was Only Restored In L.a. When It Came Time For The Blacks To Pick Up Their Welfare Checks Three Days After Rioting Began. ... What If The Checks Had Never Arrived? No Doubt The Blacks Would Have Fully Privatized The Welfare State Through Continued Looting. But They Were Paid Off And The Violence Subsided.

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Order Was Only Restored In L.a. When It Came Time For The Blacks To Pick Up Their Welfare Checks Three Days After Rioting Began. ... What If The Checks Had Never Arrived? No Doubt The Blacks Would Have Fully Privatized The Welfare State Through Continued Looting. But They Were Paid Off And The Violence Subsided.

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Do They Think If We Destroy Our Freedoms For The Terrorists They Will No Longer Have A Reason To Attack Us?

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Each Of Us Should Choose Which Course Of Action We Must Take; Education, Conventional Political Action, Or Even Peaceful Civil Disobedience To Bring About Necessary Changes, But Let It Not Be Said That We Did Nothing.

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The American People Are Sick And Tired Of Washington And The People Who Have Been In Charge Have Been Passing All These Bills And I've Been Voting No All Of The Time And Vote No On These Appropriation Bills.

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We Get Our Rights From Our Creator As Individuals. So Every Individual Should Be Treated The Same Way.

Ideas Are The Only Things That Count, And Politicians Are, For The Most Part, Pretty Much Irrelevant.

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My Understanding Is That Espionage Means Giving Secret Or Classified Information To The Enemy. Since Snowden Shared Information With The American People, His Indictment For Espionage Could Reveal (or Confirm) That The Us Government Views You And Me As The Enemy.

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If It's Not Accepted That Big Government, Fiat Money, Ignoring Liberty, Central Economic Planning, Welfarism, And Warfarism Caused Our Crisis, We Can Expect A Continuous And Dangerous March Toward Corporatism And Even Fascism With Even More Loss Of Our Liberties.

The World's Smallest Political Quiz Is Responsible For Many Americans' First Contact With Libertarian Ideas. While Traveling Around The Country, I Have Often Heard People Say, 'i Never Knew I Was A Libertarian Until I Took The Quiz!'

The Problem Is That Democracy Is Not Freedom. Democracy Is Simply Majoritarianism, Which Is Inherently Incompatible With Real Freedom. Our Founding Fathers Clearly Understood This.

What Is Not Conservative About Saying, 'don't Go To War Unless We Go To War Properly With A Full Declaration Of War And No Other Way?'

We'd Love It If We Could All Just Come Home And Not Worry About The Rest Of The World. But The Problem Is, They Attacked Us On 9/11. We Were Here; They Attacked Us.

There Was A Time When A Willingness To Criticize One's Own Government When It Was Wrong Was The Very Definition Of Patriotism.

Secession Is A Deeply American Principle. This Country Was Born Through Secession.

We Should Have A Strong President. Strong Enough To Resist The Temptation Of Taking Power That A President Shouldn't Have.

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For Those Who Have Asked, I Freely Confess That Jesus Christ Is My Personal Savior, And That I Seek His Guidance In All That I Do.

Scientifically, There's No Debate Over Whether The Fetus Is Alive And Human.

Even If You Don't Like Guns And Don't Want To Own Them, You Benefit From Those Who Do.

We Have A Lot Of Goodness In This Country. And We Should Promote It, But Never Through The Barrel Of A Gun. We Should Do It By Setting Good Standards, Motivating People And Have Them Want To Emulate Us. But You Can't Enforce Our Goodness, Like The Neocons Preach, With An Armed Force. It Doesn't Work.

Failure Of Government Programs Prompts More Determined Effort, While The Loss Of Liberty Is Ignored Or Rationalized Away...whether Is It Is The War On Poverty, Drugs, Terrorism...or The Current Hitler Of The Day, An Appeal To Patriotism Is Used To Convince The People That A Little Sacrifice Of Liberty, Here Or There, Is A Small Price To Pay...the Results, Though, Are Frightening And Will Soon Become Even More So.

I Had The Privilege Of Practicing Medicine In The Early '60s, Before We Had Any Government. It Worked Rather Well, And There Was Nobody On The Street Suffering With No Medical Care.

Having Federal Officials, Whether Judges, Bureaucrats, Or Congressmen, Impose A New Definition Of Marriage On The People Is An Act Of Social Engineering Profoundly Hostile To Liberty.

When You Have War, Whether It's A War Against Drugs, War Against Terrorism, War Overseas, The Mentality Of The People Change And They're More Willing To Sacrifice Their Liberties In Order To Be Safe And Secure.

...[the Federal] Government [has No Authority] To Deliver A Service,...and There's No Evidence To Show That Government Has Ever Been Efficient [at] Delivering...service.

If Global Warming Is Because Of Weather Changes - Which A Lot Of People Believe - There's Not Much We Can Do To Change The Weather Pattern.

Prohibiting Guns On Campus Made The Virginia Tech Students Less Safe, Not More.

Both Sides Of The Political Spectrum Must One Day Realize That Limitless Government Intrusion In The Economy, In Our Personal Lives, And In The Affairs Of Other Nations Cannot Serve The Best Interests Of America.

You Don't Have A Right To A House, You Don't Have A Right To A Job, You Don't Have A Right To Medical Care.

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Ideas Are Very Important To The Shaping Of Society. In Fact, They Are More Powerful Than Bombings Or Armies Or Guns. And This Is Because Ideas Are Capable Of Spreading Without Limit. They Are Behind All The Choices We Make. They Can Transform The World In A Way That Governments And Armies Cannot. Fighting For Liberty With Ideas Makes More Sense To Me Than Fighting With Guns Or Politics Or Political Power. With Ideas, We Can Make Real Change That Lasts.

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I Am Just Absolutely Convinced That The Best Formula For Giving Us Peace And Preserving The American Way Of Life Is Freedom, Limited Government, And Minding Our Own Business Overseas.

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There's Capital Controls And There's People Control. So Every Time You Think Of A Fence Keeping All Those Bad People Out, Think About Those Fences Maybe Being Used Against Us, Keeping Us In.

With The Exception Of The Military Industrial Complex, We All Want A More Peaceful World.

I Have Some Help On Tweeting.

Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing] Was A Setup By The Israeli Mossad, As A Jewish Friend Of Mine Suspects, Or Was Truly A Retaliation By The Islamic Fundamentalists, Matters Little.

I Like Mitt Romney As A Person. I Think He's A Dignified Person. But I Have No Common Ground On Economics. He Doesn't Worry About The Federal Reserve. He Doesn't Worry About Foreign Policy. He Doesn't Talk About Civil Liberties, So I Would Have A Hard Time To Expect Him To Ever Invite Me To Campaign With Him.

It Is True That Liberty Is Not Free, Nor Is It Easy. But Tyranny - Even Varying Degrees Of It - Is Much More Difficult, And Much More Expensive. The Time Has Come To Rein In The Federal Government, Put It On A Crash Diet, And Let The People Keep Their Money And Their Liberty.

Everybody Complains About Pork, But Members Of Congress Keep Spending Because Voters Do Not Throw Them Out Of Office For Doing So. The Rotten System In Congress Will Change Only When The American People Change Their Beliefs About The Proper Role Of Government In Our Society. Too Many Members Of Congress Believe They Can Solve All Economic Problems, Cure All Social Ills, And Bring About Worldwide Peace And Prosperity Simply By Creating New Federal Programs. We Must Reject Unlimited Government And Reassert The Constitutional Rule Of Law If We Hope To Halt The Spending Orgy.

You Have To Remember, Rights Don't Come In Groups We Shouldn't Have 'gay Rights'; Rights Come As Individuals, And We Wouldn't Have This Major Debate Going On. It Would Be Behavior That Would Count, Not What Person Belongs To What Group.

I Have My Shortcomings. But The Message, It Has No Shortcomings. The Message Of Liberty Is What America Is All About.

Back A Hundred Years Ago, Especially Around Woodrow Wilson, What Happened In This Country Is We Took Freedom And We Chopped It Into Pieces.

First Reason Is, It's Not Authorized In The Constitution, It's An Illegal Institution. The Second Reason, It's An Immoral Institution, Because We Have Delivered To A Secretive Body The Privilege Of Creating Money Out Of Thin Air; If You Or I Did It, We'd Be Called Counterfeiters, So Why Have We Legalized Counterfeiting? But The Economic Reasons Are Overwhelming: The Federal Reserve Is The Creature That Destroys Value.

The Most Important Element Of A Free Society, Where Individual Rights Are Held In The Highest Esteem, Is The Rejection Of The Initiation Of Violence.

War Is Never Economically Beneficial Except For Those In Position To Profit From War Expenditures.

It's A Mistake To Think That Poor People Get The Benefit From The Welfare System. It's A Total Fraud. Most Welfare Go To The Rich Of This Country: The Military-industrial Complex, The Bankers, The Foreign Dictators, It's Totally Out Of Control.

By Encouraging Americans To Adopt A Group Mentality, The Advocates Of So Called 'diversity' Actually Perpetuate Racism. Their Obsession With Racial Group Identity Is Inherently Racist.

Maybe We Ought To Consider A Golden Rule In Foreign Policy: Don't Do To Other Nations What We Don't Want Happening To Us. We Endlessly Bomb These Countries And Then We Wonder Why They Get Upset With Us?

Privacy Is Freedom. Leave Us Alone!

You Wanna Get Rid Of Drug Crime In This Country? Fine, Let's Just Get Rid Of All The Drug Laws.

Government Spending Is Always A “tax” Burden On The American People And Is Never Equally Or Fairly Distributed. The Poor And Low-middle Income Workers Always Suffer The Most From The Deceitful Tax Of Inflation And Borrowing.

Only In A Free Society Do Individuals Have The Best Chance To Seek Virtue, Strive For Excellence, Improve Their Economic Well-being, And Achieve Personal Happiness. The Worthy Goals Of Civilization Can Only Be Achieved By Freedom-loving Individuals. When Government Uses Force, Liberty Is Sacrificed And The Goals Are Lost. It Is Freedom That Is The Source Of All Creative Energy.

You Know, The Greatest Hoax I Think That Has Been Around In Many, Many Years If Not Hundreds Of Years Has Been This Hoax On The Environment And Global Warming. You Notice They Don't Call It Global Warming Anymore. It's Weather Control.

Al-awlaki Was Born Here, He Is An American Citizen. He Was Never Tried Or Charged For Any Crimes. No One Knows If He Killed Anybody. We Know He Might Have Been Associated With The Underwear Bomber. But If The American People Accept This Blindly And Casually That We Now Have An Accepted Practice Of The President Assassinating People Who He Thinks Are Bad Guys, I Think It's Sad.

Liberty Built Civilization. It Can Rebuild Civilization.

I Want To Be President Mainly For What I Don't Want To Do: I Don't Want To Run Your Life, I Don't Want To Run The Economy, And I Don't Want To Police The World.

And Yet Even Among The Friends Of Liberty, Many People Are Deceived Into Believing That Government Can Make Them Safe From All Harm, Provide Fairly Distributed Economic Security, And Improve Individual Moral Behavior. If The Government Is Granted A Monopoly On The Use Of Force To Achieve These Goals, History Shows That Power Is Always Abused. Every Single Time.

Article 1 Section 8 Of The Constitution Says Congress Has The Ability To Coin Money And Regulate The Currency And Doesn't Say Anything About Gold Or Silver.

Speak Up, Speak Often And Don’t Worry About Those That At This Point Cannot Understand As They Can Never Un-hear What We Tell Them.

Aggression And Forced Redistribution Of Wealth Has Nothing To Do With The Teachings Of The World's Great Religions.

Once Created, Federal Programs Are Nearly Impossible To Eliminate.

Of Course I've Already Taken A Very Modest Position On The Monetary System, I Do Take The Position That We Should Just End The Fed.

The Sad Thing Is, Our Foreign Policy Will Change Eventually, As Rome's Did, When All Budgetary And Monetary Tricks To Fund It Are Exhausted.

It Is Not Democracy To Send In Billions Of Dollars To Push Regime Change Overseas. It Isn't Democracy To Send In The Ngos To Re-write Laws And The Constitution In Places Like Ukraine. It Is None Of Our Business.

It Would Be Virtually Impossible To Finance Wars Without Taxing The People, And The Welfare System Would Be Limited Because There Wouldn't Be Enough Money In The Bank To Sustain It As It Is, And That Would Help Prices Stay Under Control.

A System Of Capitalism Presumes Sound Money, Not Fiat Money Manipulated By A Central Bank. Capitalism Cherishes Voluntary Contracts And Interest Rates That Are Determined By Savings, Not Credit Creation By A Central Bank.

What We Need Is A Strong Defense, But Right Now There Is Zero Chance Of An Invasion By Another Country And Right Now We Have More Firepower Than All Other Countries Put Together.

If People Are Smokers, Don't They Have To Pay More? Sometimes, You Get Your Insurance Cheaper If You Are A Nonsmoker. So, Let The Markets Sort This Out And Insurance Sort It Out, But Not Having Dictates By The Government Saying Thou, You Must Do This And Your Behavior Doesn't Matter, You Know?

If We Are Not Even Free Anymore To Decide Something As Basic As What We Wish To Eat Or Drink, How Much Freedom Do We Really Have Left?

So The Time Line Of When We Consider A Fetus 'human' Is Arbitrary After Conception.

I Am Absolutely Convinced, You Never Have To Give Up Any Of Your Freedoms In Order To Be Secure.

I Think It's A Theory... The Theory Of Evolution And I Don't Accept It As A Theory.

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A Failing State Cannot Stop A Revolution Whose Time Has Come.

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