The Plano Trail Runners be some tough sumbitches.
"Trail runners tend to love nature, not only for its beauty but for its exciting and terrifying power."
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by tim_lebsack 0 sec ago
John Jay Myers Congressional candidacy and activity in the LP is a tremendous gain for libertarians everywhere.
Neither the 'paper candidate' (nor the newer term 'place holder') is the pinnacle of the LP's aspirations for it's candidates. While liberty is ancient and mankind's natural state, the Libertarian Party is only a youthful teen relative to the more geriatric ideas of the Democrats and the Republicans.
It is my goal as a liberty minded voter to replace most if not all the current "PAPER OFFICE HOLDERS" with servants of substance who can be relied upon to respect their constituents individual dignities and the Constitution.
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"Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldn't be allowed to vote. The idea that there is some public benefit in ignoramuses and morons pulling levers next to names on a ballot is one of the evil myths of post-modern America. The purpose of voting, in our country, is to select men and women with the competence and integrity to operate the mechanics of government fixed by our Constitution. For this process to have any public benefit requires that the choices be made on an intelligent, knowledgeable and reasoned basis." -- Charley Reese Source: The Orlando Sentinel, 11/03/98 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Charley.Reese.Quote.72F7
"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Paine.Quote.71D2
"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance." -- C. S. Lewis
"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." -- G. Gordon Liddy (1930- ) Lawyer, radio show host, former FBI bureau supervisor, former prosecutor, campaign manager for Richard Nixon
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/G..Gordon.Liddy.Quote.2AD0
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Jewish Austrian neurologist, founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Sigmund.Freud.Quote.4D6F
"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money." -- P. J. O'Rourke (1947- ) US humorist, journalist, & political commentator
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/P..J..O'Rourke.Quote.AACC
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." -- David Brin (1950- ) Author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/David.Brin.Quote.088F
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) Greek playwright Source: Agamemnon
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Aeschylus.Quote.99B6
"Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands." -- Justice Hugo L. Black (1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice Source: IAM v. Street, 367 U.S., 1961.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Hugo.Black.Quote.0134
"I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton [John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton] (1834-1902), First Baron Acton of Aldenham Source: to the bishop of London, 1887
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Acton.Quote.8008
"The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it." -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) [Lord Macaulay] 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian
Source: review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Babington.Macaulay.Quote.089F
"Power never takes a back step -- only in the face of more power." -- Malcolm X [Malcolm Little] (1925-1965) Civil rights activist, Black Muslim leader Source: Malcolm X Speaks, 1965 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Malcolm.X.Quote.BF74
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