Steve Halvorson:  

Steve is from Boise, Idaho. Steve's schools include Timberline High School. Steve's interests include Politics. Music Steve likes includes Workin' On Fire, Nate Fowler, Johnny Cash. Books Steve likes include Bible, The Final Quest by Rick Joyner. Movies Steve likes include Fireproof the Movie, Bourne, Airplane. TV shows Steve likes include Flight of the Conchords, MythBusters, FRIENDS (TV Show). One of Steve's favorite quotes is:"TIMID MEN PREFER THE CALM OF DESPOTISM TO THE TEMPESTUOUS SEA OF LIBERTY. ~~~~ Thomas Jefferson ~~~~ He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. — Thomas Paine, Common Sense [1776] “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” ~~~~ John Milton "If we guarantee your liberty as an individual, that means you have civil rights to live your lifestyle. You actually can do things that I might disapprove of. But I'm very tolerent. As a libertarian, I say "Well, I might not endorse your lifestyle -- you might smoke some things and drink some things and eat some things and act certain ways that I totally abhor -- but as long as you don't hurt anyone else, I'm not gonna bother you." -Ron Paul, 1988 “There is no ‘slippery slope’ toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.” Alan K. Simpson, US Senator To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. – Samuel Adams The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. – Thomas Jefferson Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community. – David D. Boaz (1997) We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. – Winston Churchill (1903) The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. – Patrick Henry The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now. – South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905) Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. – Robert Heinlein If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. – Samuel Adams It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. – Charles A. Beard The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Thomas Jefferson (1781) It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself. – Justice Casey Percell I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights. – Abraham Lincoln “One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.” - Thomas Sowell “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it” - Thomas Sowell Benevolence comes from within as a reflection of our personal, individual sense of well-being. To force it, externally – through moral intimidation (altruism), social intimidation (duty), or at the point of a gun (legislation) – debilitates our personal sense of well-being and negates the source of benevolence. – Richard Rieben A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill, writing on the U.S. Civil War in 1862 The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny...Expand for more