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The Cost In Terms Of Liberties Lost And The Unnecessary Exposure To Terrorism Are Difficult To Determine, But In Time It Will Become Apparent To All Of Us That Foreign Interventionism Is Of No Benefit To American Citizens, But Is Instead A Threat To Our Liberties.

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The Cost In Terms Of Liberties Lost And The Unnecessary Exposure To Terrorism Are Difficult To Determine, But In Time It Will Become Apparent To All Of Us That Foreign Interventionism Is Of No Benefit To American Citizens, But Is Instead A Threat To Our Liberties.

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Trying To Change

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Libertarianism Is The Enemy Of All Racism.

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I Believe That Israel Is One Of Our Most Important Friends In The World.

To Me, To Be A Conservative Means To Conserve The Good Parts Of America And To Conserve Our Constitution.

But Whether The Resistance Against Government Tyrants Is Non-violent Or Physically Violent, The Effort To Overthrow State Oppression Qualifies As True Patriotism.

The True Patriot Is Motivated By A Sense Of Responsibility And Out Of Self-interest For Himself, His Family, And The Future Of His Country To Resist Government Abuse Of Power. He Rejects The Notion That Patriotism Means Obedience To The State.

My Message Is Simple - Freedom Works A Lot Better Than The Authoritarian Style Of Government.

We Should Respect Each Other As Rational Beings By Trying To Achieve Our Goals Through Reason And Persuasion Rather Than Threats And Coercion.

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

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!'

Today’s Events Are Reminiscent Of The Old Testament Story Of How The Israelites Demanded A King Over God’s Objection. They Believed That A King Would Give Them Peace And Security. The Results Proved Otherwise.

Have You Noticed The Debt Is Exploding? And It's Not All Because Of Medicare.

I Wouldn't Vote Against Getting Rid Of The Jim Crow Laws.

We Have To Restore Confidence That The Marketplace Can Deliver Services As Well As It Can Goods.

I'm Not Against The Fbi Investigation In Doing A Proper Role, But I'm Against The Fbi Spying On People Like Martin Luther King. I'm Against The Cia Fighting Secret Wars And Overthrowing Government.

Sexually-transmitted Diseases Is Caused By Sexual Activity And Promiscuity It Spreads Diseases. That's Been Known, You Know, About 400 Or 500 Years, That Somehow These Diseases Are Spread. If Fault Comes With People Because Of Their Personal Behavior But It Isn't To Be Placed On A Burden On Other People, Innocent People, Why Should They Have To Pay For The Consequences?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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?

Freedom Is Not Defined By Safety. Freedom Is Defined By The Ability Of Citizens To Live Without Government Interference. Government Cannot Create A World Without Risks, Nor Would We Really Wish To Live In Such A Fictional Place. Only A Totalitarian Society Would Even Claim Absolute Safety As A Worthy Ideal, Because It Would Require Total State Control Over Its Citizens’ Lives. Liberty Has Meaning Only If We Still Believe In It When Terrible Things Happen And A False Government Security Blanket Beckons.

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

Theory Of Evolution

Abortion On Demand Is The Ultimate State Tyranny; The State Simply Declares That Certain Classes Of Human Beings Are Not Persons, And Therefore Not Entitled To The Protection Of The Law. The State Protects The 'right' Of Some People To Kill Others, Just As The Courts Protected The 'property Rights' Of Slave Masters In Their Slaves. Moreover, By This Method The State Achieves A Goal Common To All Totalitarian Regimes: It Sets Us Against Each Other, So That Our Energies Are Spent In The Struggle Between State-created Classes, Rather Than In Freeing All Individuals From The State.

Nothing Good Can Come From The Federal Reserve. It Is The Biggest Taxer Of Them All. Diluting The Value Of The Dollar By Increasing Its Supply Is A Vicious, Sinister Tax On The Poor And Middle Class.

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.

We Have Depended On Government For So Much For So Long That We As People Have Become Less Vigilant Of Our Liberties. As Long As The Government Provides Largesse For The Majority, The Special Interest Lobbyists Will Succeed In Continuing The Redistribution Of Welfare Programs That Occupies Most Of Congress's Legislative Time.

Welfare Programs

Why Is It Is Claimed That If People Won't Or Can't Take Care Of Their Own Needs, That People In Government Can Do It For Them?

Unfortunately, The Greater The Humanitarian Outreach, The Greater The Violence Required To Achieve It.

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.

All Branches Of Our Government Today Are Controlled By Individuals Who Use Their Power To Undermine Liberty And Enhance The Welfare/warfare State-and Frequently Their Own Wealth And Power.

Terror Is A Tactic. We Can Not Wage "war" Against A Tactic.

Demanding Domestic Security In Times Of War Invites Carelessness In Preserving Civil Liberties And The Right Of Privacy. Frequently The People Are Only Too Anxious For Their Freedoms To Be Sacrificed On The Altar Of Authoritarianism Thought To Be Necessary To Remain Safe And Secure.

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.

Another Term For Preventive War Is Aggressive War - Starting Wars Because Someday Somebody Might Do Something To Us. That Is Not Part Of The American Tradition.

If You Drink Too Much, You Go Out And You Harm To Somebody, You Have To Suffer The Consequences. Same Way With Health Matters. You Don't Have The Right To Demand That Someone Else Take Care Of You Because Of Your Habits.

The Concept Of Equal Pay For Equal Work Is Not Only An Impossible Task, It Can Only Be Accomplished With The Total Rejection Of The Idea Of The Voluntary Contract... The Idea That A Businessman Must Hire Anyone And Is Prevented From Firing Anyone For Any Reason He Chooses, And In The Name Of Rights, Is A Clear Indication That The Basic Concept Of A Free Society Has Been Lost.

Israeli Government & The Neocons Want Us To Bomb Iran.

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.

I Have Come To One Firm Conviction After These Many Years Of Trying To Figure Out The Plain Truth Of Things. The Best Chance For Achieving Peace And Prosperity, For The Maximum Number Of People Worldwide, Is To Pursue The Cause Of Liberty. If You Find This To Be A Worthwhile Message, Spread It Throughout The Land.

I Never Voted To Spend One Penny Of Social Security Money.

The Most Basic Principle To Being A Free American Is The Notion That We As Individuals Are Responsible For Our Own Lives And Decisions

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.

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