Some favorite quotes

Some favorite quotes

Would we be governed differently if elections were held on April 16^th?

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you caan convince one man by logic. – Robert Heinlein

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.  –  Stuart Chase

“Rent control appears to be the most effective technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing.” – Assar Lindbeck, Swedish economist

Brave men die but once, a coward dies a hundred deaths. – Julius Caesar

The essential prerequisite for learning is the readiness to acknowledge one’s ignorance. – Socrates

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever. – Robert Heinlein

“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” – Socrates

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. – MLK

My father used to say that colored people came out of slavery, Negroes built all of the institutions, blacks helped with the right to vote and African-Americans just complain. – John Sibley Butler

“One cannot hope to reason people out of those things they haven’t been reasoned into” – Jonathan Swift

“The way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” John Roberts

Fixing what is broken in Washington is not hard if your own political future is not your pressing concern. – Tom Coburn

Countries don’t have permanent friends only permanent interests – Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston.

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” George Orwell

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” 
― Robert A. Heinlein

Life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” 
― George V. Higgins, 

The worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends. — Ludwig von Mises

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (Declaration of Independence)

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln

“If you are never controversial, you have probably never said anything interesting.” – Assar Lindbeck

Ominously, as de Tocqueville said “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” I’m afraid that day has arrived.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

We do not know enough to justify anything we believe. – Aristotle

We are too intellectually lazy to verify what we profess to believe – Aristotle

“Nobody seemed to give a damn about my work until very late in my career. Then, I felt like I was on an extended victory lap”. John Steinbeck

G. K. Chesterton’s century-old observation: “The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.