Thank you to TheEndRun.com on Dec 31, 2011
“Don’t give me this idea — I hear this: ‘Oh, you’re a moralist. You’re trying to impose your values.’ Everybody’s trying to impose their values. That’s what America’s about.”
– Rick Santorum, at a campaign event in Muscatine, Iowa on Dec 29, 2011 [source]
“Nobody has a right to impose their values on anyone else.”
– Ron Paul [source]
“If we guarantee your liberty as an individual, that means you have civil rights to live your lifestyle. You actually can do things that I might disapprove of. But I’m very tolerent. As a libertarian, I say “Well, I might not endorse your lifestyle — you might smoke some things and drink some things and eat some things and act certain ways that I totally abhor — but as long as you don’t hurt anyone else, I’m not gonna bother you.”
– Ron Paul, 1988 [source]
“Would you rather be a Neoconservative or a Progressive? That is a trick question. The trick is in the fact that, although there may be differences between the rhetoric and short-term agendas of these groups, their long-term goals actually are the same. They may differ over how to fight a war in the Middle East but not over the right of the President to wage such a war empowered by the UN instead of Congress. They may differ over what kind of speech should be forbidden (“subversive” speech vs. “hate” speech, for example) but not over the right of the government to forbid it. They may differ over how fast to bankrupt the nation to provide benefits for its citizens but not over the assumption that providing benefits is what governments are supposed to do. They disagree over tactics, timing, and style, but not objectives. They fight for dominance within the New World Order, but they work together to build it. That is because both groups have embraced the underlying ideology of global collectivism.”
– G. Edward Griffin, Left vs Right: The Illusion of Opposites
“Regardless of what name you give it, regardless of how you re-label it to make it seem new or different, collectivism is totalitarianism. … In the United States and most European countries there is a mirage of two political parties supposedly opposing each other, one on the Right and the other on the Left. Yet, when we get past the party slogans and rhetoric, we find that the leaders of both parties support all the principles of collectivism … . Indeed, they represent a right wing and a left wing, but they are two wings of the same ugly bird called collectivism. A true choice for freedom will not be found with either of them. ”
– G. Edward Griffin, The Future is Calling (Part 1)
Politics and the United States of America isn't about what I believe or you believe it is about what the Constitution says. It's not a matter of belief, this is truth and fact we are dealing with.
