M.J. Taylor's quotes

Religion: Truth without Facts.

To fully grasp the evil of socialism it may be necessary to study Ayn Rand's Novel, Atlas Shrugged.

Sally [Kern] (and more on Sally Kern here) bemoans the fact that “gays are infiltrating city councils—and school boards and state legislatures... they are wining elections!” We certainly are, Sally, because infiltrating city councils—and school boards and state legislatures—isn't just for right wing Christian bigots anymore.

Every full-time U.S. worker owes a staggering $440,000, courtesy of government excess.

... then your soldiers must be likened to spoiled children; they are useless for any practical purpose.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most certain and the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Everything I want is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

Politics consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.