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Common Sense Politicks

pol-i-tick : verb - to engage in often partisan political discussion or activity
Abraham Lincoln

an-antique-land:

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen. — John Steinbeck, Winter of Our Discontent (via n0sdacariad)

(Source: quote-book, via dieingrebel)

You make a good point there, Paul. Every once and a while you make a good point…but soon forgotten after another outlandish remark.
Atlas Shrugged

Good news - I finished the first chapter of Atlas Shrugged, and it has my interest! It took me a little while to get into Rand’s writing style, but I adjusted just fine. 

As some of you have asked, why am I reading this book if by the second page I was bored?  Well, its quite simple: Ayn Rand’s philosophies, stories, and politics interest me a great deal. I like challenging myself with a difficult read that pushes my literature boundaries (1000 pages sure does the trick). And lastly, Rand’s suggestions through this novel are pertinent to current American politics and the globe’s issues of the day - I thought reading this would expand my own philosophies. 

I’m finally starting to read Atlas Shrugged. Any suggestions on how to make this as painless as possible (considering I have read the first two pages and am already bored and its a 1168 page book)?!?!? Please.. anyone?
woah.
although I’m not the religious type (I’m still figuring that part out), the Bible is great for snippets of motivation, clarity, and wisdom…This one being especially fitting.

Censorship is like telling a man he cannot have steak because a baby can’t chew it. — Mark Twain (via cliffordthecorrupt)

(via notquitecharlotte)

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is wealth of nature. — Socrates 

theatlantic: America’s First Political Cartoon Turns 258 It would be tough to argue that Ben Franklin doesn’t get his due in American history. In addition to his role as a drafter of the Declaration of Independence, he’s credited for discovering electricity, inventing bifocals, introducing the first public library in the country, and so on. But did you know he also published the first political cartoon in American history?  Read more. [Image: Library on Congress] Gotta love my Ben Frank!
but whenever anyone else says they have ‘evolved’ its deemed a ‘flip-flop’. If someone doesn’t change their viewpoints over the course of their lifetime, then they haven’t sought enough differentiating opinions, haven’t learned lessons, and have not tested their own intelligence and philosophy in far too long.

An Avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he a establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. — Thomas Paine (via disobey)

(Source: hipsterlibertarian, via haereticum)

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary. — Malcolm X (via alexeikaramazov)

(via lalibertarienne)