Friday, August 11. 2006
When you put the Devil out, please make sure he takes his bags. h/t, True Grit
Thursday, August 10. 2006
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. Ronald Reagan
Wednesday, August 9. 2006
...our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective 'scientific method,' with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology. Stephen Jay Gould (h/t, Evang. Outpost)
Tuesday, August 8. 2006
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan
Monday, August 7. 2006
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan
Friday, August 4. 2006
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. Ronald Reagan
Thursday, August 3. 2006
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison (h/t, neoneo)
Wednesday, August 2. 2006
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan
Tuesday, August 1. 2006
"Tell them if you're elected, all of their fondest dreams will come true." Napoleon Dynamite, to Pedro, in the remarkable indie film of the same name.
Monday, July 31. 2006
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan
Friday, July 28. 2006
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."Ronald Reagan
Thursday, July 27. 2006
"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'." Sir Winston Churchill
Wednesday, July 26. 2006
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? James Thurber
Tuesday, July 25. 2006
Q: What’s the difference between a Northern fairytale and a Southern fairy tale? A: A Northern fairy tale begins “Once upon a time…” A Southern fairy tale begins “‘Ya’ll ain’t gonna believe this s**t…” (H/T, DB)
Friday, July 21. 2006
You can’t make Socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent. John Dewey h/t, Kim du Toit
Thursday, July 20. 2006
I can make more generals, but horses cost money. Abraham Lincoln
Monday, July 17. 2006
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. The Owner's Manual
Thursday, July 13. 2006
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. Mark Twain
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author. Mark Twain
Wednesday, July 12. 2006
From an evil nativist pal, with a H/T, Rich Michaels
Monday, July 10. 2006
There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. Thomas Sowell (thanks to Right Wing News for quote)
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. P.J. O'Rourke (h/t, Right Wing News)
Wednesday, July 5. 2006
I'll tell you, son, the minority got us outnumbered. Congressman Frog, from Pogo
Tuesday, July 4. 2006
We are offering John Adams' quotes today: "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.""I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.""The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body. We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other."
Monday, July 3. 2006
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. Henry Clay
|