E Archer made a great point about debt. Debt is slavery . Don't complain about interest on the credit card, pay it off monthly and there won't be any interest.

The state is the evil.

As long as we don't hurt anyone.

The only political party to believe in freedom of choice is the libertarion party.

"Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft". This quote from Mark Twain was a description of public servants.

Maybe that would be an improvement.

When you get out of solitary confinement and get to go back to the prison yard, you ain't free.

Ever notice when environmentalists predict the end of the world, it's always in 50 years or and they won't be around to see that it hasn't happened.

And if some government doctrine is dead wrong, just throw more money at it.

I left out North Korea, a very efficient government.

Anonymous, Reston, I believe that this means to quit interfering in others business unless invited. This is why I'm a Libertarian and believe in "Live and Let Live".

Amen Harry. Hitler had an efficient government as does Fidel Castro. Thank goodness we don't have one.

Anonymous, no one said that this is "Liberty" , it's a Czech proverb. I believe it suggests that when the big thieves get caught, they always look for someone lower on the food chain to blame. When the IRS scandal broke, the folks in D.C. blamed some underlings in Cincinnati. They just didn't know anything about it at headquarters.

One of the greatest founding fathers. I agree with Paine on this. Every church or religion was founded by humans and everyone is suspect. If you are convinced of the crazy notion that a talking snake convinced a woman to eat some fruit, try believing the morman religion, it's even nuttier.

Jefferson was a Deist. He thought the idea of a virgin birth and the Trinity were bad theology. We are never quite sure exactly sure what Jesus actually said due to scribes mistakes in copying the Bible. Read "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Ehrman, and you can check it out on YouTube.

This is priceless and my favorite is, "They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith." Faith is pretending to know something that you know nothing about.

Check out a short video on YouTube, "The earth is the center of the universe", by Edward Current.

The moral precepts of the old Testament leave a lot to be desired and if you followed them you'd end up in jail, and rightfully so.

No one has the power to define morality but some folks think they do. We wouldn't have horrors such as the War on Drugs unless we have leftover vestiges of morality from the witch burning days.

H.L. is one of my favorites and he hits the nail on the head.

Anonymous, look around. Harry , Nancy, Barack, and the gang haven't switched parties unless I missed it.

To understand the mess we are in, just remember that about 90% of the folks in congress are lawyers.

Ask anyone who spent time in one of Fidel Castro's prisons.

Mark Twain and Mencken were great at satire.

Mencken is exactly right, as he usually is.