Texit Quotes

“the people of Texas themselves must accept the process as democratic, consistent with existing law, and congruent with their understanding of the principles of self-government.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Texans are no longer comfortable with submitting their political will to a people who, they perceive, wouldn’t know liberty and good government if it jumped up and bit them in the ass. There is a precedent for this feeling in Texas. The Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico specifically calls out the other Mexican States for their weakness in the face of Santa Anna’s tyranny.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Social Security recipients, who have been forced to pay into this alleged retirement system, will have their benefits slashed, and those who are currently paying into the system will be forced to face the fact that they have been participating in a Ponzi scheme.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Given the nearly unrestricted power of lawmaking and taxation, they ensure that actual dissent is nearly nonexistent. Every citizen has become a federal lawbreaker and we are suffocated under a tax code that few have actually read and no one fully understands. Like the Sword of Damocles, federal retribution hangs over the heads of everyone, waiting to impale anyone who steps out of line.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“All of this is to buy the loyalty of the thumb-suckers, whiners, and social experimenters who refuse to produce, refuse to compete, and reject any notion of personal accountability.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“The “United States are” was the clear intention at the founding of the Union, while “United States is” was a later usage adopted to reinforce a fallacy about the construction of the Union.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“This book is chock full of facts, figures, quotes, poll numbers, laws, and economic data but, to keep the subject matter accessible, it was necessary to streamline the work by omitting additional supporting evidence.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“The Supreme Court was not and never will be perfect. Some of the most heinous, morally reprehensible, logically flawed decisions have emanated from the Supreme Court. To imbue it with infallibility is to say that, when it upheld slave catching or when it upheld racial segregation, it was right.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Treason is a criminal act committed by an individual, not a political body and, therefore, cannot be committed by a State.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“The people of Texas are tired of living under 180,000 pages of federal laws, administered by 440 separate federal agencies and 2.5 million unelected bureaucrats. The people of Texas are sick of having their lives dictated by politicians they didn’t elect forcing policies on them that they don’t want.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“the States were the equivalent of modern-day nation-states with all the sovereignty and rights that implies.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union