Darrell Hughes:
CLASS OF 1983
Truman High SchoolClass of 1983
Independence, MO
Darrell's Story
Darrell is from Independence, Missouri. Darrell's schools include Truman High School. Darrell later attended University of Central Missouri.
Music Darrell likes includes Joe Bonamassa, Shinedown, Ted Nugent. Books Darrell likes include in fifty years we'll all be chicks, Atlas Shrugged, The Road to Serfdom. Movies Darrell likes include The Shawshank Redemption, Dodgeball, Falling Down. TV shows Darrell likes include Impractical Jokers, The River, Alcatraz.
One of Darrell's favorite quotes is:"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain. - Frederic Bastiat
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a wholeâwith their common aim of legal plunderâconstitute socialism. But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. - Frederic Bastiat
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? - Frederic Bastiat
"Racism is the lowest, most...Expand for more
crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage -- the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors." -Ayn Rand
âThe problem with socialism is that you eventually, run out of other peopleâs money.â
- Margaret Thatcher
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. Thomas Jefferson
(if you don't read this and think of Gore and the global warming nuts....)
âman has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.â - Ayn Rand
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. - Alexis de Tocqueville
Some people play hard to get, I play hard to want. - Diceman
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. -
Ronald Reagan
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself ~~"Lillian, you should have remained a virgin."
Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. - Joseph Stalin
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
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. - Winston Churchill".
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