Quotation Explorer - 'A.E. Samaan'

Politics is the art of persuasion. Good ideas die because due to a lack of charisma or character. - A.E. Samaan
Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism. - A.E. Samaan
Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question. - A.E. Samaan
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters. - A.E. Samaan
Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal. - A.E. Samaan
Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life. - A.E. Samaan
History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters. - A.E. Samaan
Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter. - A.E. Samaan
Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence. - A.E. Samaan
Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics. - A.E. Samaan
Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty. - A.E. Samaan
Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by. - A.E. Samaan
Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression. - A.E. Samaan
Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first. - A.E. Samaan
Workers of the world unite???? How'bout.... Staunch individualists disperse!!! - A.E. Samaan
For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them. - A.E. Samaan
Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free? - A.E. Samaan
Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not. - A.E. Samaan
There is a very dangerous myth that #Hitler was solely fueled by racism. His desire to engineer society was pervasive. Racism alone cannot explain what happened in The Holocaust without also addressing Hitler's statist policies. - A.E. Samaan
We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other. - A.E. Samaan
There are those that want "freedom" from individual responsibility. Then there are those that want individual "liberty." I choose the latter. I am a Libertarian - A.E. Samaan
Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"?? - A.E. Samaan
All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional. - A.E. Samaan
A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than everyone. - A.E. Samaan
Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few. - A.E. Samaan
The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion. - A.E. Samaan
Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics. - A.E. Samaan
Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation. - A.E. Samaan
Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results. - A.E. Samaan
Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights. - A.E. Samaan
Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine. - A.E. Samaan
Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most. - A.E. Samaan
Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious. - A.E. Samaan
Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom. - A.E. Samaan
Liberty will never yield equality. Freewill produces a mess that you either accept or reject in favor of slavery. - A.E. Samaan
Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen. - A.E. Samaan
There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion. - A.E. Samaan
Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century. - A.E. Samaan
Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation. - A.E. Samaan
The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions. - A.E. Samaan
You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place? - A.E. Samaan
There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable. - A.E. Samaan
Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. - A.E. Samaan
Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century. - A.E. Samaan
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty. - A.E. Samaan
Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning. - A.E. Samaan
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy". - A.E. Samaan
Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse? - A.E. Samaan
FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of individual liberty. - A.E. Samaan
Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore. - A.E. Samaan
The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter. - A.E. Samaan
Socialists seem to think George Orwell’s 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality. - A.E. Samaan
The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless. - A.E. Samaan
I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian - A.E. Samaan
The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism. - A.E. Samaan
The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception. - A.E. Samaan
All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum. - A.E. Samaan
The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power. - A.E. Samaan
Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad. - A.E. Samaan
Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost. - A.E. Samaan
Fuck socialism!No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks! - A.E. Samaan
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700. - A.E. Samaan
Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal. - A.E. Samaan
I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian. - A.E. Samaan
The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. - A.E. Samaan
Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners. - A.E. Samaan
I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law". - A.E. Samaan
Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is but one thing only: Buy Low - Sell High. Capitalism is what happens when a government allows free association and respects property rights. It is a symptom of liberty. - A.E. Samaan
I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred. - A.E. Samaan
Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves. - A.E. Samaan
The term "totalitarian" was derived from Adolf Hitler's "Total State", which was a "craddle to grave" solution that sought to micro-manage all aspects of humanity. - A.E. Samaan
According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people. - A.E. Samaan
You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore. - A.E. Samaan
If God were mortal and had but one life to give, he would have been more careful about how he created the world. - A.E. Samaan
Tiranos sao eleitos e depostos.Leis sao passadas e repelidas.Nacoes surgem e caem.A liberdade do individuo e' eterna - A.E. Samaan
A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy. - A.E. Samaan
You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other. - A.E. Samaan
Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines. - A.E. Samaan
The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism. - A.E. Samaan
The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you. - A.E. Samaan
I am not interested in having freedom from burdens. I don't need any authority to free me from responsibility.I am not interested in having freedoms within an authoritarian's parameters. I am only interested in self-determination.I have only respect for liberty as I am a libertarian. - A.E. Samaan
LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness. - A.E. Samaan
LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about. - A.E. Samaan
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