Sometimes, the most responsible thing a person can do on election day is stay at home … If you really don’t know enough to cast an intelligent vote, you should be eager to let your more informed neighbors make the decision. Greg Mankiw
October 2000,
That long [Canadian
That long [Canadian] frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only be neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Speech in honour of R.B. Bennett, Canada Club, London April 20, 1939
frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded … ]
Read much, but not many books. Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790…
Read much, but not many books.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
I trust you with your own money. George W. Bush Tuesday October …
I trust you with your own money.
George W. Bush
Tuesday October 17, 2000
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. …
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams
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[T]he whole theory of a free government is opposed to such grants. Mr. Justice Stephen Field
Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age, by Paul Kens. University Press of Kansas, 1997.
If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell …
If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’ John Wayne
We must remember that free minds and free markets are the moral …
We must remember that free minds and free markets are the moral foundation that have enabled [Silicon Valley’s] success, and never allow those freedoms to be diminished. T.J. Rodgers
President and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor Corp, Wall Street Journal, February 8, 1999
The Court’s attempt to distinguish the communication inherent in political contributions …
The Court’s attempt to distinguish the communication inherent in political contributions from the speech aspects of political expenditures simply ‘will not wash.’ We do little but engage in word games unless we recognize that people-candidates and contributors-spend money on political activity because they wish to communicate ideas, and their constitutional interest in doing so is precisely the same whether they or someone else utters the words. Chief Justice Burger
Partial Dissent/Partial Concurrence of Chief Justice Burger in Buckley v. Valeo
It is necessary for us to learn from others’ mistakes. You will …
It is necessary for us to learn from others’ mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. Hyman Rickover