The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
BOB BARRThe world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe.
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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At virtually any given time outside of one’s own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
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The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It’s a mainstream philosophy. It’s of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.
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I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.
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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
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It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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Going to war against Iran – whether one calls such a move ‘surgical’ or ‘total’ – would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
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I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration.
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