"The heart has reasons that reason cannot know”
Blaise Pascal
"Sovereignty Forever - UN
Never!”
Spotted on a
building in Lewiston, Idaho, on April 27, 2006. Click
here
for a picture.
"That government is best which governs least."
Often attributed to
Thomas Jefferson.
Though these exact words do not appear in his writings, this is
Jefferson's sentiment, exactly. These words also appeared in Henry David
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience.
"The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap,
and all the monkeys in America do the same."
From Henry David Thoreau's
Walden.
The mindless pursuit of fashion... not a political comment...
"Ain't nothing better than riding' a fine horse
through a new country. That's exactly what me and Woodrow was meant for."
From
Lonesome Dove, 1989. Capt. Augustus McCrae, Texas Ranger, spoke
these words while riding with young Newt near the Powder River in Montana as the
Hat Creek Cattle Co. pushed on to the Milk River.
"I have never been lost…...but I will
admit to being confused for several weeks."
Daniel Boone
“The problem with socialism is that pretty soon
you run out of other people’s money.”
Margret Thatcher made this statement in various forms at various times.
“… the trouble
with our century is that we all encountered magnificent, inspiring literature in
our youth. This fooled us into believing we should be able to produce art of the
same level – like a Sunday tennis player watching world champions in a stadium.
It looks so easy that he runs home for his racket to do it himself.”
From
The Girl from Petrovka (George Feifer, 1971, p. 66).
“In this
present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the
problem.”
Ronald Reagan, from his first
inaugural address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ixNPplo-SU
"The act of reaching into one's own pockets to
help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into
someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation."
Professor
Walter E.
Williams.
"If we wish to be compassionate with our fellow
man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words,
thinking with our hearts, rather than our brains, is a surefire method to
hurt those whom we wish to help."
Professor
Walter E.
Williams.
"He who does not work, will not eat."
Captain John Smith, of Jamestown
Originally from the New Testament (II Thessalonians 3:10)
Comment by SJT: This does not mean that those who cannot work should
not eat. Compassion is good, of course. But if someone is able to work
and chooses not to, they should experience the consequences.
"I've never let my schooling interfere with my
education."
Mark Twain
"The minds of men were gradually reduced to
the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military
spirit evaporated.”
From
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire (Edward Gibbons, 1776)
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should
at least find you handy."
Red Green
"How many a man has dated a new era in his
life from the reading of a book."
Henry David Thoreau
A WILD BOAR stood under a tree and
rubbed his tusks against the trunk. A Fox passing by asked him
why he thus sharpened his teeth when there was no danger
threatening from either huntsman or hound. He replied, "I do it
advisedly; for it would never do to have to sharpen my weapons
just at the time I ought to be using them."
Aesop's Fables,
The Wild Boar and the Fox
"Yum-yum, eat 'em up”
Uncle George, the Wild Man from Borneo, from
The Little Rascals.
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