Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use. Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881
In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid …
In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paidfor by the middle class – which is now living in Arizona. Ann Coulter
August 21, 2003, www.townhall.org
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Robert Heinlein …
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Robert Heinlein
Time Enough for Love
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject …
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. Louis J. Halle
author, 1910-
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust …
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them William Shakespeare
Twelfth N, Act ii, Sc.5
It’s illegal to say to a voter ‘Here’s $100, vote …
It’s illegal to say to a voter ‘Here’s $100, vote for me.’ So what do the politicians do? They offer the $100 in the form of Health Care, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Food Stamps, tobacco subsidies, grain payments, NEA payments, and jobs programs. [All paid for by someone else.] Don Farrar
average guy, age 51
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (…
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast …
To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
To have the United States at our side was to me the …
To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!…Hitler’s fate was sealed. Mussolini’s fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through …
I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass and was fired upon. Al Gore