End the War on Freedom

From gsc:

"For my own part, I expect the war against individual liberty to move into additional renewed phases of overt violence. To me, the strategic implications of water-borne properties make them ill suited for what I see coming. I prefer mountainous terrain. Given what I expect of the filthy, putrescent, evil, heinous, murdering, raping, mutilating, torturing, thieving scum who run the major governments of the world, I think the sense of 4th Generation Conflict, that one survives and hits back as opportunity
arises, strongly motivates a choice of difficult terrain in which to move..."

-- Jim Davidson

From tmm:

"There is no function of government that cannot be done better and more efficiently by private enterprise." -- A Cell of One

Received via email:

"Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." -- Ambrose Bierce

"Many police departments write 'To protect and serve' on their cars. What they don't say is who. We're supposed to assume that they plan to protect and serve us. Actually, they protect and serve the state, and its owners, the counterfeiters who print the money. I'd call them bankers, but in a fractional reserve world, there are no bankers, only state-approved counterfeiters." -- Bill St. Clair

"I'd rather slit a vein than vote for John McCain." -- overheard by Chuck Muth at a GOP event

"The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." -- Mark Twain

"When seconds count, just remember, the cops are only minutes away!" -- author unknown

The Mental Militia Wiki - Junker edited down to just the quotes a wikiquote list from Robert A. Heinlein. What a joy it was to read so much wit and wisdom in one place!

I saved a copy, as quick-loading plain-text HTML, at billstclair.com/heinlein.html.

Received via email:

"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental -- men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack, or count himself lost. His one aim is to disarm suspicion, to arouse confidence in his orthodoxy, to avoid challenge. If he is a man of convictions, of enthusiasm, or self-respect, it is cruelly hard...

"The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even a mob with him by the force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second or third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically the most devious and mediocre - the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

"The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

-- H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

From this Mental Militia Forums post:

"Ever since Robert Peel popularized metropolitan police forces in the early 19th. century they have been seen, falsely, as keepers of the peace. The actual job of domestic police is to control the domestic population and steal their property. In the United States, police forces are an integral part of that Prussian-American culture. As the government schools are the reproductive organs of the state, so the police, along with the rest of the military, are its sword arm.

"They are, in fact, the standing army that the founders of the Republic warned against."

--Speaker

Received in email. Author unknown.

An old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. "Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?" He replied, "No Ma'am; if I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my shotgun."

From this YouTube video:

"And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes every day. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."

-- George Carlin

From jomama:

Some years ago, I asked a retired narc, "How goes the war on drugs?"

He said, "It's over. Drugs won."

It's not nice to fuck with people not fucking with you.

The paybacks are a bitch.

--jomama

From LA Weekly:

“It may be that a feminist, progressive man would do better in the White House than a ventriloquist for the patriarchy with a skirt and a vagina,” she allows, acknowledging that Hillary Clinton’s stance on the war has so far been disappointing. “Women sometimes bend the wrong way just to prove themselves to men,” she says, talking like someone who knows. “But when we learn to listen to ourselves . . .” She gazes out the window, gathering her thoughts. “That will be revolutionary.”

-- Jane Fonda via Judith Lewis

"As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government."
-- Dave Barry

From patriot:

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to
answer 'present' or 'guilty'." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more
statesmen." -- Bob Edwards

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it,
and then misapplying the wrong remedies." -- Groucho Marx

From nicki:

"It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non-signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle." -- Fred Thompson

From ##irc on Freenode:

"A constitutionalist/libertarian talking to leftwing/rightwing politicos is like a human being telling flatlanders about the 3rd dimension." -- dolfun

"If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law."

-- Edward Abbey

From lew:

"When the aggression by a territorial state is only downward, towards its own population, we call this condition ‘peace’." -- Murray Rothbard