Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free. Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
Monthly Archives: November 2021
Perserverance … is the very hinge of all virtues. Thomas Carlyle Author (Investor’…
Perserverance … is the very hinge of all virtues.
Thomas Carlyle
Author (Investor’s Business Daily, January 14, 1999)
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty …
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Samuel Adams
(1722-1803) – American revolutionary
Karl Marx did not abolish child labor or free the women from …
Karl Marx did not abolish child labor or free the women from working in the coal mines in England – the steam engine and modern machinery [in a semi-capitalistic system] did that. Ronald Reagan
Jan 25, 1974
A society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the …
A society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the requirements of man’s nature-is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. …
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra
One racist voted out of survivor
And more racism tonight on Survivor:
“I wanted to do it for the [black] culture. ” and “Connecting over our blackness.”
I hope the lesson here is that racists don’t prosper, no matter what their skin color.
Just imagine if it had been we were “connecting over our whiteness” or someone “wanted to do it for the white culture.”
The outrage would (rightly) be huge. And yet Jeff Probst and CBS are silent about overt racism rearing its ugly head in the Fall of 2021.
At least after the vote tonight, one of the racists is out: racism and racists should not prosper.
Observe…the intellectual precision of the Founding Fathers: they spoke of the …
Observe…the intellectual precision of the Founding Fathers: they spoke of the right to *the pursuit* of happiness — *not* of the right *to* happiness. It means that a man has the right to take the actions he deems necessary to achieve his happiness; it does NOT mean that others must make him happy. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never …
If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d.Ã This will be their great Security. Samuel Adams
(1722-1803) – American revolutionary
One way is to give money and make a big show. That …
One way is to give money and make a big show. That is not my way of doing. I am of the Quaker belief, and although the Quakers are about all dead, I still follow their example. An ordinary gift to be bragged about is not a gift in the eyes of the lord. Hetty Howland Robinson Green
On giving money away. Hetty, Charles Slack, 2004. (1834-1916), p190