A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy (1995), “The Nature of Philosophy” (p. 6).
sciant quae optima sunt esse communia.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Richard Mott Gummere (translator), Letter XII.
The best ideas are common property.
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
Your rights are protected by the inability of the Government to do things. That is what the Founders thought.
Ben Shapiro, The Ben Shapiro Show, Episode 849, “Tearing Down Our Institutions.”
Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1689), Ch. VIII, sec. 95.
Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.
As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. . . .
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1689), Ch. XVIII, sec. 199.
National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1689), Ch. VI, sec. 57.
There are many patriotic Americans who would put aside their own private careers to serve in office, if the cost to them and their families were not ruinous, and if they had some realistic hope of advancing the interests of the country and its people without being obstructed by career politicians.
Is any of this likely today? No!