Zinovy Roark

Constitutional Originalist

Madison, Tocqueville, Hayek, Rothbard, Friedman, Kimball, Kirk, Burke, Arendt, C.S. Lewis, Sowell, Kołakowski, Bloom

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"To claim 'humanitarian motives' when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years."
- Helmut Schoeck

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On a farcical trial in NYC:
“For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.”
― Alexander Hamilton

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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
― James Madison, Federalist Papers

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“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

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“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

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“When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it.”
—Frédéric Bastiat.

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"Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself."
— Tony Gaskins

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“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
—Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings.

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“We are teetering on the edge of philosophical bankruptcy. Our modern global society is running off the fumes of what the enlightenment era thinkers gave us.”
—The Entropic Philosophy, Stevie Kaschke

Are there any thinkers on the level of John Locke present in today's world?

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Buried News: Bums, illegals, addicts, and criminals double their assaults in hospitals
By Monica Showalter

America Coming Apart

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"Climate cult dominoes are continuing to fall."

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of structural processes even over well-intended functionaries.”
—Robert Nef.

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“Those who nourish the hope that it will be possible to keep central government free of the corrupting tendencies of power and to staff it with a freedom-loving elite, overestimate the virtues of both the electorate and the elected, and underestimate the normative power...

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"If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all."
— Pearl S. Buck

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@igorsushko Vivek Ramaswamy displays his ignorance of Russian Imperial and Bolshevik agression that has occured about 200 times in 900 hundred years of history in Central and Eastern Europe. NATO is the only entiy that has thwarted the destruction of this region.

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parental permission before administering health services to children, and authorize parents to view the list of books and instructional materials for K–12 classrooms."
—The Heritage Foundation, April 11, 2022

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"Polling finds that more Americans are dissatisfied than satisfied with elementary and secondary schools. In 2022, lawmakers recognized the need to protect parents and children from curricular and health decisions that school officials make—sometimes without even informing...

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parents. Lawmakers around the country are considering parents’ bills of rights that affirm that parents are their children’s primary caregivers, prevent schools from compelling students to affirm ideas that violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964, require schools to receive...

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“Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, every movement, and action affects. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than a parent.”
– Bob Keeshan