Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of peoples own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. Its an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isnt prosperity.
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You know why theres a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
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Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesnt allow or disallow. The president cant buy or purchase.
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I reject most conventional wisdom.
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Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.
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Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but its able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.
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When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand youve got tradition, and on the other hand youve got change; in many peoples mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. Im a big tradition guy.
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Freedom without virtue isnt freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.
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The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.
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The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but Im not giving up, and Im not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.
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