Ninth Stage

So I found things that even more people believe, such as that we have some knowledge of how to educate. There are big schools of reading methods and mathematics methods, and so forth, but if you notice, you’ll see the reading scores keep going down — or hardly going up — [...]

Its as if many of today’s politicians read Atlas Shrugged when they were young and decided to dedicate their lives to becoming the villains.
- madmax

God helps those who help themselves. Government helps the rest, who don’t.
- Anonymous

It’s easy if you try.
Quote of the Day -
…the only solution is to try to drive knives from society. Already, stop-and-search squads have been put on the streets of London in a version of the contentious old “sus” laws. This, at least, is something practical that can be attempted: there is no good reason to [...]

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been found that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
- Benjamin Disraeli

No one should run for office this year as a Republican who doesn’t have to.
- Megan McArdle
McCain will have zero coattails.

Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.
Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.

Via Oleg Volk.

You do not examine legislation in light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
- Lyndon B. Johnson (even a stopped clock is right twice a day(unless it’s a 24 hour clock.))
Prompted by Say Uncle’s post.

When you need a hammer, a rock will do the job.  When you need a gun, nothing else will do.
- Anonymous

If rifles were like computers and you cycled the bolt on an empty magazine, the gun would explode when you pulled the trigger.
- Fodder

On Government.
They’re not interested in doing the things you want them to do; they’re far more concerned about stopping you doing the things they don’t want you to do.
- Barry Beelzebub

Quote of the day Imprisonment by stealth.
What many of us have been thinking and talking about all along but well put.
Via Coals to Newcastle.

If he can’t be impeached, he can always be assassinated
- Ben Frankin

You sneer at the NRA for playing on your classmates’ fears of gun-control, but if there is indeed no political threat to their guns, what is the harm in letting everyone believe the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right? Why would you bother challenging their interpretation of the 2nd Amendment — unless you and others [...]

I prefer a small government which may permit some evil to a large government that promotes evil at my expense.
- Michael Lee
Via The View From North Central Idaho.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
- Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
- Edmund Burke

The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
- Joseph Stalin

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
- Attributed variously including Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin.