Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.
BOB BARRThe seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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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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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 way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don’t let up. If you’re always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong.
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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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I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.
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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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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.
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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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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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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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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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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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After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
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