Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.
A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.
Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.