Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

 With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trembler.

Why don't you go to America where there's room for all sorts of uselessness?  I'll give you the fare.

The woman says, Lord, he's a dote.  Is he an American or what?

If you ever say anything good about Oliver Cromwell they'll all hit you.

The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live.

It's well known that all the lunatics in the asylum have to be dragged in but she's the only one that has to be dragged out, back to her five children and the champion of all pint drinkers.

Cuchulain was getting to be an old man of twenty-one.

If you have anything to say, shut up.

 

It's the sermon that saves millions of Chinese and other heathens from winding up in hell with the Protestants.

Croquet is a Protestant game.

I want to tell them I won't be able to die for the Faith because I'm already booked to die for Ireland.

I sign right away.  Billy says, I have my own sister.  Why should I pay to see your naked sisters?

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

Dad says, The good Catholic woman must perform her wifely duties and submit to her husband or face eternal damnation.

Mam says, As long as there are no more children eternal damnation sounds attractive enough to me.

Now that your father is gone to England surely our troubles will be over.

Surely.

Guard Dennehy says I"m too young yet to be and outlaw and a father but I have a promising future in both departments.

Uncle Pa Keating says he can't think of a single saint in heaven he'd want to sit down and have a pint with.

You'd have to be a sad case not to be able to get a job in a country that's at war....

But I need the job.  I have to save and go to America.

America.  Sad day when America lets in the likes of you.

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"For more than six hundred years -- that is, since the Magna Carta in 1215 -- there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust, oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating or resisting the execution of such laws." -- Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist Source: AN ESSAY ON THE TRIAL BY JURY p. 11 (1852)


"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided." -- Harlan F. Stone, 12th Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court, Source: 1941



"The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact." -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., (1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice


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For The Dallas City Council .....

this edition of Takers / Givers is 

for the Dallas City Council

   Takers                    Givers


Spend money to grow government                     Invest money to grow industry, individuals

Disrespect private property                                 Respect private property

Encourage you to get a job                                 Encourage you to start a business

Debit the account                                                 Credit the account

High taxes so that non-wealth                              Low taxes to keep
producers may confiscate assets                       assets producing wealth

Loot the principal                                                  Invest the interest

Small number of citizens                                      Every man a king
control a large number   

Family, Community, Society                                 Family, Community, Society
arranged by authorities                                         arranged by freedom of association

Rob Peter to pay Paul                                          Rob no one



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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.  -- Thomas de Quincey


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It is my firm conviction that if the State suppressed capitalism by violence, it will be caught in the coils of violence itself, and will fail to develop non-violence at any time. The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.  -- Gandhi

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"Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." -- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) 6th US President http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Quincy.Adams.Quote.B4BD


"It is incorrect to think of liberty as synonymous with unrestrained action. Liberty does not and cannot include any action, regardless of sponsorship, which lessens the liberty of a single human being. To argue contrarily is to claim that liberty can be composed of liberty negations, patently absurd. Unrestraint carried to the point of impairing the liberty of others is the exercise of license, not liberty. To minimize the exercise of license is to maximize the area of liberty. Ideally, government would restrain license, not indulge in it; make it difficult, not easy; disgraceful, not popular. A government that does otherwise is licentious, not liberal." -- Leonard E. Read (1898-1983) founder of the Foundation for Economic Education
Source: Leonard E. Read, in The Freeman http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Leonard.Read.Quote.1E5E


"When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.0CC8


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"Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event."
-- Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
1771 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Adams.Quote.36A1


"There is simply no escaping the fact that the fate of the Constitution is in our hands -- as voters, representatives, justices. If we allow ourselves to abuse the tradition of higher lawmaking, the very idea that the Constitution can be viewed as the culminating expression of a mobilized citizenry will disintegrate. After all, the American Republic is no more eternal than the Roman -- and it will come to an end when American citizens betray their Constitution’s fundamental ideals and aspirations so thoroughly that existing institutions merely parody the public meanings they formerly conveyed."
-- Bruce Ackerman (1943-) American constitutional law scholar, Sterling Professor at Yale Law School, Source: WE THE PEOPLE: FOUNDATIONS, 291 (1991)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Bruce.Ackerman.Quote.5ED6


"Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war;
but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred." -- Edward Everett (1794-1865) American politician and educator from Massachusetts. US Representative, US Senator, 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, US Secretary of State, professor and president of Harvard
Source: Orations and Speeches. Address, Aug. 25, 1835. Before the Literary Societies of Amherst College. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edward.Everett.Quote.66C7



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Dallas Police Kill Robbery Suspect

Case Closed

http://cbs11tv.com/local/taser.death.dallas.2.1909225.html#addComments
 
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Americans Are Racist, Uneducated, Greedy, Stupid, Bigots .....

.....so the government should be in charge of your schools.

What's that ?...... Oh, the government has been running the schools for decades...... Well this is what you get for not studying hard enough.

http://www.investors.com/EditorialCartoons/Cartoon.aspx?id=546454
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It's time to IPO the U.S. Postal Service

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"The people are Sovereign. ... at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people;
and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects... with none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty." -- John Jay
(1745-1829) first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, First President of the United States - preceding George Washington,
one of three men most responsible for the US Constitution
Source: Chisholm v. Georgia, (US) 2 Dall 419, 454, 1 L Ed 440, 455 @Dall 1793 pp471-472
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0002_0419_ZS.html
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Jay.Quote.18D9


"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527) Italian Statesman and Political Philosopher
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Niccolo.Machiavelli.Quote.3483


"The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ...
- To let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the
nation, and its foreign and federal relations ...
- The State Governments with the Civil Rights, Laws, Police and
administration of what concerns the State generally.
- The Counties with the local concerns, and each ward direct the interests
within itself.
It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best." -- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.6782


"By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property." -- Cato
John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon (169?-1750)
Source: Letter 62 (1722) of Cato's Letters (1720-1723), quoted by Ronald Hamowy, "Cato's Letters, John Locke, and the Republican Paradigm", in Edward J. Harpham (Ed.), John Locke's Two Treatises of Government:  New Interpretations (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992), p. 157.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Cato.Quote.5EED


"A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom." -- Fredrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Fredrich.August.von.Hayek.Quote.DEAB


"It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve." -- Henry George
(1839-1897) American poliical economist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.George.Quote.3F9B

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The Indians asked their Chief in autumn, if the winter was going to be cold or not. Not really knowing an answer, the chief replies that the winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared. Being a good leader, he went to his office and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?" 

The man on the phone responded, "This winter was going to be quite cold indeed."

The Chief went back to speed up his people, to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a VERY cold winter?" 

"Yes", the man replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter." 

The Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go and find every scrap of wood they can find.Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again: "Are you absol utely sure, that the winter is going to be very cold?" 

"Absolutely" the man replies, "Even the Indians are collecting wood like crazy!" 

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The Year Without Income Tax

Following are six simple exercises to help you begin to shed the barriers that stand between you and this special part of yourself so that you can begin to release and realize its extraordinary power in your life:

1. Stop looking for other people's approval to determine your own self worth.
2. Stop feeling responsible for the happiness or unhappiness of others.
3. Stop thinking you can change what happened yesterday by reliving it today.
4. Stop spending time with people who have agreed to live with negative states.
5. Stop believing you can only be as successful as you are willing to push yourself through life.
6. Stop explaining or justifying your actions to yourself or others.

 http://www.thecouragetobefree.com/

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I still think the best idea would be to declare a year without income tax. It would have been less than the bailouts and would have worked immediately. Imagine if everyone had their full income for one year. In addition, folks would realize just how much more income they would have. It would be hard to restart the income tax.
Alas, no current politician has the intestinal fortitude to even suggest it. --

In Liberty,

Ed Kless

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"Obama Denigrates Human Rights" featuring Roger Pilon





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"If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states then that juror has accepted the exercise of absolute authority of a government employee and has surrendered a power and right that once was the citizen's safeguard of liberty, -- For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in the memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time."
-- George Sutherland (1862-1942) U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Source: 2 ELLIOT’S DEBATES, 94, BANCROFT, HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION, p.267, 1788.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Sutherland.Quote.58D2


"If the jurors feels that the statute (law) involved in any criminal offence is unfair, all that it infringes upon the defendant's natural God-given unalienable or Constitutional Rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all - for no-one is found to obey an unjust law".
-- Harlan F. Stone 12th Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Harlan.Stone.Quote.C012


"We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence."
-- Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: To Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 1946
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Winston.Churchill.Quote.54BE

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Gigi Bowman Dear Tea Party -- Making a difference is not replacing Democrats with Republicans. Making a difference is replacing Party with Principle. When you catch on to that, then we will be on the same page.

Quiz Time: Which Business Kills Its Customers?

Quiz Time: Which business murders their customers?
A) Walmart
B) Chase Bank
C) Chick-Filet
D) China
E) None of the above

http://cafehayek.com/2010/08/doux-commerce-2.html


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‘A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.’ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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I believe that Obama’s goal is to purposely overwhelm the economy, pile up debt to the point of collapse, redistribute wealth, and fatally damage capitalism. ....

How do we know this is a purposeful plan? Because no one could be so ignorant of basic economics and business to not know the following: .....


http://www.newsmax.com/WayneAllynRoot/barackobamabenbernanke/2010/08/30/id/368737


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"[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today’s social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems. Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more. But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills." -- Doug Bandow
(1954- ) columnist, author, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute
Source: Big business is not to blame, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, October 13, 1995.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Doug.Bandow.Quote.5E42


"History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse." -- Eric Alterman
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Eric.Alterman.Quote.2240


"That is reserved expressly to the States and is not granted to the Federal Government by our national charter. The Federal Government has nothing to do under the Constitution with the preservation of public order. To pass this bill is to pass a bill for an unconstitutional purpose, under the guise of regulating interstate commerce."
-- George Huddleson US Congressman (D-AL)
Source: 1930 House Firearms Hearing, supra note 45, at 15.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Huddleson.Quote.D8DD


"The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior." -- Jacob G. Hornberger
American author, journalist, politician, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation
Source: The Nazi Mind-Set in America, THE TYRANNY OF GUN CONTROL, 63 (Future of Freedom Foundation 1997).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jacob.Hornberger.Quote.D0A0


"Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defence of the country, the over-throw of tyranny, or in private self-defense."
-- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: A DEFENSE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, at 475, (Philadelphia 1788)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.7D51


"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would. Nor is there anything in the common law of England ... inconsistent with that right." -- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: BOSTON GAZETTE, September 5, 1763, The Works of John Adams, p.438 (Charles F. Adams ed., 1851).

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.7B8A

 

"[R]evenues drive expenditures, not the inverse. ... tax evasion represents a net benefit to everybody ... A statue should be erected to the unknown tax evader."
-- Pierre Lemieux
Source: In Praise of the Unknown Tax Evader, NATIONAL POST, February 27, 2002
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Pierre.Lemieux.Quote.F3A7


"The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid."
-- Tom Anderson
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Tom.Anderson.Quote.1E26


"Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself." -- William Barclay (1546-1608, Scottish jurist)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Barclay.Quote.D892

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Ask Dr. Ruwart Dr. Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in libertarian communication. In this column she offers short answers to real questions about libertarianism. To submit questions to Dr. Ruwart, see end of column.   Can free markets handle the problems of hunger and famine in poor countries? Question: A recent article in Psychology Today argues that the free market isn't able to deal with the problems of widespread hunger and famine, especially when there is a crisis such as a drought. What do you think? My Short Answer: In today's world, widespread hunger exists only in Third World nations. The poverty of these countries means that they cannot produce enough to feed themselves, especially in crisis conditions. The lack of infrastructure to deliver emergency goods means foodstuffs can deteriorate before they reach those in greatest need. The best solution to famine is to make poor nations rich. Since wealth of nations is directly linked to liberty, getting rid of aggressive government is the key to feeding the world. The Third World's poverty is created by its governments' massive regulatory red tape, failure to respect property rights, and high tariffs. When liberty is regained, Third World nations become wealthy (e.g., South Korea) and no longer lose population to massive food shortages, even in most emergency situations. When the U.S. government sends aid to starving nations, a great deal of it is distributed to the ruler's favorites. Even private aid is sometimes partially usurped by unscrupulous Third World governments. Sometimes the confiscated food aid is simply sold to line the governments' coffers.  In crisis, local farmers will sell their meager yield to the highest local bidder. Indeed, they must if they are to plant the following season. The loss of time and efficiency that occurs by confiscating and redistributing what they produce outweighs the benefits that might accrue to those who are too poor to help themselves. Since many local farmers will go out of business if their crop is taken, even less local produce will be available during the next crisis. Ultimately, only liberty can insure that no one goes hungry. The best way for the Third World to prevent famine is to embrace the libertarian ideal. Got questions?  Dr. Ruwart has answers! If you'd like answers to YOUR "tough questions" on libertarian issues, email Dr. Ruwart at: ruwart@theAdvocates.org Due to volume, Dr. Ruwart can't personally acknowledge all emails. But we'll run the best questions and answers in upcoming issues. Dr. Ruwart's previous Liberator Online answers are archived in searchable form. Dr. Ruwart's outstanding books Healing Our World and Short Answers to the Tough Questions are available from the Advocates.

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