Brian Phillips > Quotes

“In recent decades, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), such as arbitration and mediation, have gained popularity as efficient and inexpensive methods for resolving disputes. As the court system has become bogged down with frivolous lawsuits, ADR allows for disputes to be resolved quickly and with less cost. Many contracts now call for ADR as the means for resolving any disputes arising from the contract.”
― Brian Phillips, Individual Rights and Government Wrongs

“Without individual rights as the unifying principle of the Tea Party, the movement will simply offer re-packaged versions of the same ideas (such as “states’ rights”) advocated by the major political parties. The Founding Fathers did not respond to the abuses of King George III by proposing a variation of monarchy. They did not seek to replace one form of tyranny with another. They rejected the entire idea that anyone—the king or “the people”—should control the lives of individuals.”
― Brian Phillips, Individual Rights and Government Wrongs

“Ford dominated the automobile market, the price of a Model T decreased from $850 in 1908 to $290 in 1924.”
― Brian Phillips, Individual Rights and Government Wrongs

“Even though a completely capitalistic society has never existed, America came close in the nineteenth century. Even with a growing number of government controls and regulations, America blossomed from a nation of subsistence farmers into the world’s most powerful economic producer.”
― Brian Phillips, Individual Rights and Government Wrongs

“A report for the Police Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides research and training for law enforcement officers, found:   Since the early 1990s, over the same time period as legal and especially illegal immigration was reaching and surpassing historic highs, crime rates have declined, both nationally and most notably in cities and regions of high immigrant concentration (including cities with large numbers of undocumented immigrants, such as Los Angeles and border cities like San Diego and El Paso, as well as New York, Chicago, and Miami).193”
― Brian Phillips, Individual Rights and Government Wrongs

“As an example, in Texas a licensing law was passed that requires computer-repair technicians to obtain a criminal justice degree or serve a three-year apprenticeship under a licensed private investigator.”
― Brian Phillips, Individual Rights and Government Wrongs

“The Founding Fathers understood that a democracy is a tyranny of the masses and is as much a threat to individual liberty as the tyranny of a monarch.”
― Brian Phillips, Individual Rights and Government Wrongs