When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
Justice William O. Douglas
Showing posts with label Liberty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liberty. Show all posts
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Great Libertarian Quotes
Justice William O. Douglas
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Liberty's Companions
"It is good for one to be free, and we would cherish Liberty even if she traveled alone, but she does not. Because Prosperity and Peace are both the companions of Liberty."
—Charles Goyette
Thursday, September 9, 2010
The Lion of Liberty - Patrick Henry
" Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."Patrick Henry
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The Lion of Liberty - Patrick Henry
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
Patrick Henry
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Libertarian Quote of the Day
"Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help..."
Gandhi
Sunday, March 14, 2010
MdLP 2010 State Convention - A Huge Success
The MdLP experienced a great State Convention in 2010. Here are some of the highlights.
Were treated with listening to Wes Benedict, the Libertarian Party's Executive Director, who offered some his advice and experiences from when he was the Chair of the Texas LP.
Paul Jacob, a Liberty Warrior in the trenches for decades, gave us his 10 Commandments, these will be included in a separate post with links to his website.
We had a speaker about a possible Constitution Convention in the State of Maryland, with a question on the ballot in November. Here is a link to the website. Until he "comes out officially" we will keep him nameless.
There is no change on the Executive Board as the Central Committee elected the following individuals:
Two individuals were nominated for Maryland House of Delegates:
Two awards were handed out at the Convention.
On behalf of those that attended, we wish to thank MdLP Chair Bob Johnston for putting together another great convention.
Were treated with listening to Wes Benedict, the Libertarian Party's Executive Director, who offered some his advice and experiences from when he was the Chair of the Texas LP.
Paul Jacob, a Liberty Warrior in the trenches for decades, gave us his 10 Commandments, these will be included in a separate post with links to his website.
We had a speaker about a possible Constitution Convention in the State of Maryland, with a question on the ballot in November. Here is a link to the website. Until he "comes out officially" we will keep him nameless.
There is no change on the Executive Board as the Central Committee elected the following individuals:
- Chair: Robert S. Johnston III
- Vice-Chair: Dave Sten
- Treasurer: Michael Linder
- Secretary: Robert E. Glaser
- Media: Muir Boda
- At-Large: Lorenzo Gaztañaga
- At-Large: Justin Kinsey
Two individuals were nominated for Maryland House of Delegates:
Arvin Vohra for District 15Jerry McKinley for District 42.
Two awards were handed out at the Convention.
Samuel P. Chase Award: Joe MillerOur featured speaker for the evening Radley Balko is a Senior Editor at Reason Magazine. He provided us with a positive outlook on the Liberty Movement and some great advances on that front. He also gave some great quotes from his research like this:
Defender of Liberty Award: Gary Hoover
"Support for legalizing Marijuana is higher than the support for the Republican or Democratic Parties."
On behalf of those that attended, we wish to thank MdLP Chair Bob Johnston for putting together another great convention.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Great American Quotes
"No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights."
Edmund A. Opitz
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Leave Me Alone
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. "
Justice William O. Douglas
Monday, May 25, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday's LP Message from Donnie Ferguson
Last week I shared with you the disturbing fact the White House wants total control of the nation’s health care system so they can ration your access to medical procedures.
Well, it’s already happening in Oregon.
Sarah McIntosh reports in this month’s “Health Care News” “the Oregon Health Services Commission has drawn up a formal procedure for rationing health care services available to recipients of taxpayer-subsidized coverage.”
McIntosh reports, “the commission listed 680 common medical procedures and treatments and ranked them in order of priority. Beginning in 2009, the commission will reimburse physicians only for procedures and treatments ranking in the top 503 of 680. This means a Medicaid recipient in need of a procedure the commission decided to rank 504th would be ineligible for the procedure.”
If you think that’s just a problem for poor Oregonians, you’re wrong. That is precisely what the Obama administration promised to do to all Americans in an April 19 Meet The Press appearance by White House advisor Lawrence Summers.
Claiming health care is becoming more expensive; not because government regulations drives up costs, but because too many people get health care, Summers flatly stated the White House wants to begin “coordinating” your doctor’s decisions so they cut the cost of health care by 30% by simply denying people possibly life-saving procedures.
Along with their plan to invade the health care market with taxpayer-subsidized insurance and prohibit any private health insurance plan not rubber-stamped by the government, the intent is the eradication of private health insurance and total control of health care.
Illinois Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky even openly admitted that in a speech to cheering left-wing activists that was captured on tape.
Once Obama gets control of health care, you will have no choice in your health coverage. You will be forced to accept rationed care.
The March 27 Wall Street Journal calls it “the Bay State bait and switch,” referring to Massachusetts, where Republican Governor Mitt Romney launched the government health care invasion.
“First, create vast new entitlements that can never be repealed, then later take the less popular step of rationing care when it’s their last hope to save the federal [government’s fiscal situation.]…The real lesson of Massachusetts is that reform proponents won’t tell Americans the truth about what ‘universal coverage’ really means: Runaway costs followed by price controls and bureaucratic rationing,” the Journal writes.
To quote Ted Knight in one of his greatest roles, “You’ll get nothing, and like it.”
It’s the same kind of rationed care you’ll find in nations like France and the United Kingdom, where waiting lists for lifesaving procedures are sometimes years-long, and the death rates from breast and prostate cancer are twice to three times higher than in the United States.
If you think you can count on Republicans to stop it, you’re wrong. In states like Utah, it’s the Republican governor expanding government-run health care. Here in Washington, The Politico newspaper reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is meeting with nearly a dozen Republicans to secure their support of Obama’s socialized medicine takeover.
And as the Wall Street Journal just showed us, they’re looking at a Republican governor – Mitt Romney – for their inspiration.
If Obama and the Republicans are successful, they will have not only nationalized one-seventh of the economy, but they will have made millions of Americans dependent on government for their very lives – and dependent on a system built on rationing and substandard care that requires drastically higher taxes to maintain.
Skyrocketing taxes, bigger government and more dependency are precisely why millions of Americans oppose the Obama health care scheme – and the Libertarian Party is the only party that represents them.
Only Libertarians can oppose the Obama health care scheme, because Republicans are just as guilty as Democrats. Their Medicare prescription drug entitlement, the biggest expansion of the welfare program since Lyndon Johnson created it, simply laid the pavement for Obama’s road to socialized medicine.
And only Libertarians believe in the real solution to rising health care costs – opening up the health insurance market, knocking down regulations that delay and drive up the costs of developing new medicines and treatments, and repealing protectionist regulations installed by connected lobbyists to force more competition into the system.
Government-run and rationed health care, responsible for skyrocketing taxes and higher death rates in other countries, is already here. You can thank both Democrats and Republicans for that.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. We can provide affordable health care to all. With your support, the Libertarian Party can continue to fight for a vibrant marketplace of affordable, quality care.
With optimism,
Donny Ferguson
Well, it’s already happening in Oregon.
Sarah McIntosh reports in this month’s “Health Care News” “the Oregon Health Services Commission has drawn up a formal procedure for rationing health care services available to recipients of taxpayer-subsidized coverage.”
McIntosh reports, “the commission listed 680 common medical procedures and treatments and ranked them in order of priority. Beginning in 2009, the commission will reimburse physicians only for procedures and treatments ranking in the top 503 of 680. This means a Medicaid recipient in need of a procedure the commission decided to rank 504th would be ineligible for the procedure.”
If you think that’s just a problem for poor Oregonians, you’re wrong. That is precisely what the Obama administration promised to do to all Americans in an April 19 Meet The Press appearance by White House advisor Lawrence Summers.
Claiming health care is becoming more expensive; not because government regulations drives up costs, but because too many people get health care, Summers flatly stated the White House wants to begin “coordinating” your doctor’s decisions so they cut the cost of health care by 30% by simply denying people possibly life-saving procedures.
Along with their plan to invade the health care market with taxpayer-subsidized insurance and prohibit any private health insurance plan not rubber-stamped by the government, the intent is the eradication of private health insurance and total control of health care.
Illinois Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky even openly admitted that in a speech to cheering left-wing activists that was captured on tape.
Once Obama gets control of health care, you will have no choice in your health coverage. You will be forced to accept rationed care.
The March 27 Wall Street Journal calls it “the Bay State bait and switch,” referring to Massachusetts, where Republican Governor Mitt Romney launched the government health care invasion.
“First, create vast new entitlements that can never be repealed, then later take the less popular step of rationing care when it’s their last hope to save the federal [government’s fiscal situation.]…The real lesson of Massachusetts is that reform proponents won’t tell Americans the truth about what ‘universal coverage’ really means: Runaway costs followed by price controls and bureaucratic rationing,” the Journal writes.
To quote Ted Knight in one of his greatest roles, “You’ll get nothing, and like it.”
It’s the same kind of rationed care you’ll find in nations like France and the United Kingdom, where waiting lists for lifesaving procedures are sometimes years-long, and the death rates from breast and prostate cancer are twice to three times higher than in the United States.
If you think you can count on Republicans to stop it, you’re wrong. In states like Utah, it’s the Republican governor expanding government-run health care. Here in Washington, The Politico newspaper reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is meeting with nearly a dozen Republicans to secure their support of Obama’s socialized medicine takeover.
And as the Wall Street Journal just showed us, they’re looking at a Republican governor – Mitt Romney – for their inspiration.
If Obama and the Republicans are successful, they will have not only nationalized one-seventh of the economy, but they will have made millions of Americans dependent on government for their very lives – and dependent on a system built on rationing and substandard care that requires drastically higher taxes to maintain.
Skyrocketing taxes, bigger government and more dependency are precisely why millions of Americans oppose the Obama health care scheme – and the Libertarian Party is the only party that represents them.
Only Libertarians can oppose the Obama health care scheme, because Republicans are just as guilty as Democrats. Their Medicare prescription drug entitlement, the biggest expansion of the welfare program since Lyndon Johnson created it, simply laid the pavement for Obama’s road to socialized medicine.
And only Libertarians believe in the real solution to rising health care costs – opening up the health insurance market, knocking down regulations that delay and drive up the costs of developing new medicines and treatments, and repealing protectionist regulations installed by connected lobbyists to force more competition into the system.
Government-run and rationed health care, responsible for skyrocketing taxes and higher death rates in other countries, is already here. You can thank both Democrats and Republicans for that.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. We can provide affordable health care to all. With your support, the Libertarian Party can continue to fight for a vibrant marketplace of affordable, quality care.
With optimism,
Donny Ferguson
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Libertarian Quote of the Day
"It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
Charles A. Beard
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Libertarian Quote of the Day
"It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. "
George Washington
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