Andrew Napolitano Quotes

#1. Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

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#2. The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states).

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#3. The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

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#4. Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

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#5. The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want.

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#6. The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

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#7. What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

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#8. All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President's first job - as Jefferson understood well - is to keep us free.

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#9. Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom ... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

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#10. It's hard for me to believe that World Trade Center building 7 came down by itself twenty years from now, people will look at 911 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us.

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