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Neal Boortz Quotes
Neal A. Boortz, Jr. - American
radio host, author, and political commentator
Political Activist Liberty
"Freedom isn't for wimps."
"Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't
deal with life, or the truth."
"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech.
Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."
"There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up
to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a
government office or bureaucrat."
"The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is
to use the force of government to take property away from the people who
earn it and give it to people who do not."
"A lot of people out there pay good lip service
to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone
tries to do something that they don't personally approve of."
The average person in this country described as "poor"
has a higher standard of living than the average European. Not the average
"poor" European, the average European.
From this day on every single time you hear the word "diversity"
you can rest assured that there is someone close by who is determined
to rob you of every vestige of individuality you possess.
I'll tell you what your rights are! You have a right to
live free, and to whatever wealth you are able to produce with your labor.
I'll also tell you have no right to any portion of the life or labor of
another.
"The key to accepting responsibility for your
life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading
you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those
terms."
"If it is wrong for you to take money from someone
else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then
it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step
forward and do this dirty work for you."
"Don't look in other people's pockets. You have
no business there. What they earn is theirs. What your earn is yours.
Keep it that way. Nobody owes you anything, except to respect your privacy
and your rights, and leave you the hell alone."
"Politics? I'm a confirmed Libertarian. I believe
that the principal difference between the Democrats and the Republicans
is that the Democrats just want to grow our Imperial Federal Government
a bit faster than the Republicans do."
"That about sums it up, really: Liberals feel. Liberals
care. They are pack animals whose identity is tied up in group dynamics.
Conservatives and Libertarians think -- and, setting aside the theocracy
crowd, their identity is centered on the individual."
If the Left can create the common perception that success
and failure are simple matters of "fortune" or "luck," then it is easy
to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes. After
all, we are just evening out the odds a little bit, aren't we?
"How many Catholic schools do you think teach
the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian
schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus
Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority."
"Liberals feel that their favored groups, have enforceable
rights to the property and services of productive individuals. Conservatives
(and Libertarians, myself among them I might add) think that individuals
have the right to protect their lives and their property from the plunder
of the masses."
"You need to register to vote, unless you are on
welfare. If you are living off the efforts of others, please do us the
favor of sitting down and shutting up until you are on your own again.
To the welfare class I say that we're taking care of you we would appreciate
if if you would just stay out of our way so we can get the job done."
"Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek
is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum.
You don't see highly successful people clocking out of the office every
afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon
rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark."
"You may think, for instance, that you have
a right to health care. After all, Hillary said so, didn't she? But you
cannot receive health care unless some doctor or health practitioner surrenders
some of his time - his life - to you. He may be willing to do this for
compensation, but that's his choice. You have no "right" to his time or
property. You have no right to his or any other person's life or to any
portion thereof."
"The rich basically serve two purposes in this country.
First, they provide the investments, the investment capital, and the brains
for the formation of new businesses. Businesses that hire people. Businesses
that send millions of paychecks home each week to the un-rich. Second,
the rich are a wonderful object of ridicule, distrust, and hatred. Few
things are more valuable to a politician than the envy most Americans
feel for the evil rich."
"So, here I am saying negative things to you
about government. Well, be clear on this: It is not wrong to distrust
government. It is not wrong to fear government. In certain cases it is
not even wrong to despise government for government is inherently evil.
Oh yes, I know it's a necessary evil, but it is dangerous nonetheless
... somewhat like a drug. Just as a drug that in the proper dosage can
save your life, an overdose of government can be fatal."
"Logic cannot support the premise that health
care is a right. Health care is a service that is administered by another
human being with the requisite skills and knowledge. To claim that healthcare
as a "right" is to claim a right to the services of the health-care provider.
In effect, this means you are claiming a "right" to a portion of that
person's life – both a portion of the time already spent developing his
skills, and a portion of the time spent practicing those skills on you."
"This gowned gaggle behind me is your faculty.
You've heard the old saying that those who can - do. Those who can't -
teach. That sounds deliciously insensitive. But there is often raw truth
in insensitivity, just as you often find feel-good falsehoods and lies
in compassion. Say good-bye to your faculty because now you are getting
ready to go out there and do. These folks behind me are going to stay
right here and teach."
"That bum sitting on a heating grate, smelling like
a wharf rat? He's there by choice. He is there because of the sum total
of the choices he has made in his life. This truism is absolutely the
hardest thing for some people to accept, especially those who consider
themselves to be victims of something or other - victims of discrimination,
bad luck, the system, capitalism, whatever. After all, nobody really wants
to accept the blame for his or her position in life. Not when it is so
much easier to point and say, "Look! He did this to me!"
"To imply that one person is homeless, destitute,
dirty, drunk, spaced out on drugs, unemployable, and generally miserable
because he is "less fortunate" is to imply that a successful person -
one with a job, a home and a future - is in that position because he or
she was "fortunate." The dictionary says that fortunate means "having
derived good from an unexpected place." There is nothing unexpected about
deriving good from hard work. There is also nothing unexpected about deriving
misery from choosing drugs, alcohol, and the street instead of education
and personal responsibility."
"Now, I realize that most of you consider yourselves
Liberals. In fact, you are probably very proud of your liberal views.
You care so much. You feel so much. You want to help so much. After all,
you're a compassionate and caring person, aren't you now? Well, isn't
that just so extraordinarily special. Now, at this age, is as good a time
as any to be a Liberal; as good a time as any to know absolutely everything.
You have plenty of time, starting tomorrow, for the truth to set in. Over
the next few years, as you begin to feel the cold breath of reality down
your neck, things are going to start changing pretty fast .. including
your own assessment of just how much you really know."
"I started out my political life as a bedwetting
liberal. Young, idealistic — and dumb. Then I started paying income taxes.
Thankfully I realized sooner than most the difference between what I earn
and my "take-home" pay. For a few years I guess you could have called
me a conservative. I was troubled, though, by the penchant conservatives
have for directing the social lives of people. That led me straight to
the libertarian philosophy. Simply put, I believe in freedom. I believe
the Constitution should be amended with a clause which states that neither
the federal nor any state government shall make any activity that does
not violate, through force or fraud, a persons right to life, liberty
or property, a crime. I firmly believe that if liberty is to be preserved
in America, it will be libertarian thought, if not the Libertarian Party,
that saves it."
"The key to accepting responsibility for your
life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading
you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those
terms. Some of the choices are obvious: Whether or not to stay in school.
Whether or not to get pregnant. Whether or not to hit the bottle. Whether
or not to keep this job you hate until you get another better-paying job.
Whether or not to save some of your money, or saddle yourself with huge
payments for that new car. Some of the choices are seemingly insignificant:
Whom to go to the movies with. Whose car to ride home in. Whether to watch
the tube tonight, or read a book on investing. But, and you can be sure
of this, each choice counts. Each choice is a building block - some large,
some small. But each one is a part of the structure of your life. If you
make the right choices, or if you make more right choices than wrong ones,
something absolutely terrible may happen to you. Something unthinkable.
You, my friend, could become one of the hated, the evil, the ugly, the
feared, the filthy, the successful, the rich."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Liberty-vs-Tyranny.com/
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