A Time for Choosing - Ronald Reagan

My friends, this is a speech he gave 45 years ago to the day, powerful stuff that should still inspire us all today.

Today's Truth

"Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)"

Cornelius Tacitus - (55-117 A.D.)
Senator and a historian of the Roman Empire.

Source: Annales (1st century A.D.)

Worth bearing in mind when one considers the plethora of new laws enacted by the New Labour government since 1997.

Chuck Norris: An Outlaw's Worst Nightmare

Today's Truth

"It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today."

Friedrich August von Hayek - (1899-1992)

Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

Source: The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972), p. 208

If looks could kill...

...we'd be holding a memorial service for Adam Boulton right now.