The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.
Ilana MercerIn a free society, the โvision thingโ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a โvisionaryโ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.
Ilana MercerBreaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.
Ilana MercerThe great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.
Ilana Mercer