James Wilson -
"It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudenece; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness."
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Quotes of the Day
George Washington -
"Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life."
"A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects."
"Let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the constitution be reprehended. If defective, let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence."
"Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life."
"A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects."
"Let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the constitution be reprehended. If defective, let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence."
Friday, October 23, 2009
Quote of the Day
Thomas Paine -
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Quotes of the Day
Benjamin Franklin -
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Can We Save Our Police & Fire From Budget Cuts in Tulsa?
Folks... this is a very short, but very to the point column. I have an idea and I want to share it with you and gain your feedback.
Everyone knows, without any doubt, that I am against raising taxes in nearly every single case. However, when it comes to our public safety officials (fire, law enforcement) being screwed because of incompetence in elected leadership, I start getting a little bit partial to their, and our, well being. I believe I have come up with an idea here...The population of Tulsa is approx. 380,000. Add $1.00 to every water bill for 12 months and only 12 months. $1 x 12mo = $12 x 380,000 = $4,560,000.00 / 2 = $2,280,000.00. Give 2.28 million to fire and 2.28 million to PD and let's call it a done deal. Of course this doesn't include all the businesses that are served by the City of Tulsa Water Department. Add those numbers in and we could probably increase each by a half million or so.
I'm not suggesting we just do this without the will of the people, I'm suggesting we put it to a vote and see how our fellow citizens feel about it. Just a thought folks... just a thought. I bid you good day.
Matthew Q. Llewellyn, Founder
The American Libertarian Movement
Copyright 2009 Matthew Q. Llewellyn
Everyone knows, without any doubt, that I am against raising taxes in nearly every single case. However, when it comes to our public safety officials (fire, law enforcement) being screwed because of incompetence in elected leadership, I start getting a little bit partial to their, and our, well being. I believe I have come up with an idea here...The population of Tulsa is approx. 380,000. Add $1.00 to every water bill for 12 months and only 12 months. $1 x 12mo = $12 x 380,000 = $4,560,000.00 / 2 = $2,280,000.00. Give 2.28 million to fire and 2.28 million to PD and let's call it a done deal. Of course this doesn't include all the businesses that are served by the City of Tulsa Water Department. Add those numbers in and we could probably increase each by a half million or so.
I'm not suggesting we just do this without the will of the people, I'm suggesting we put it to a vote and see how our fellow citizens feel about it. Just a thought folks... just a thought. I bid you good day.
Matthew Q. Llewellyn, Founder
The American Libertarian Movement
Copyright 2009 Matthew Q. Llewellyn
Quotes of the Day
George Washington -
"I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience."
"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."
"I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience."
"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."
Monday, October 19, 2009
Quote of the Day
Hi there folks... I've been wanting to do this for a long time now and have decided to start it today. I will, on a daily basis, find a quote, or two, or three, of great significance which also contain deep wisdom. Today, just to get the ball rolling, I'm going to include quite a few quotes. I hope you find them as enlightening as I have.
Benjamin Franklin -
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
Alexander Tyler -
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
Theodore Roosevelt -
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to runin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation of all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
I believe you will find the following quotes to be quite enlightening.
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."
- Hillary Clinton
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..."
- Bill Clinton
I wonder who else believed as they, and most democrats, including Barack Obama do... Oh... Lookie... I have another matching quote.
"It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual. .... This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture .... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man."
- Adolph Hitler
Benjamin Franklin -
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
Alexander Tyler -
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
Theodore Roosevelt -
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to runin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation of all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
I believe you will find the following quotes to be quite enlightening.
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."
- Hillary Clinton
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..."
- Bill Clinton
I wonder who else believed as they, and most democrats, including Barack Obama do... Oh... Lookie... I have another matching quote.
"It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual. .... This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture .... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man."
- Adolph Hitler
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