Free speech has never meant free of consequences. Even aside from laws against libel or extortion, you can insult your boss or your spouse only at your own risk. Thomas Sowell
Monthly Archives: December 2021
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. Mark …
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
As the people of the Soviet Union eventually discovered, there is no …
As the people of the Soviet Union eventually discovered, there is no economic policy that can deceive the law of honest dealing. Those who permit worthless currency or faithless debts to be issued in their name will pay eventually. Thomas G. Donlan
Barron’s, April 30, 2001
Buy old masters. They bring better prices than young mistresses. Lord Beaverbrook (…
Buy old masters. They bring better prices than young mistresses. Lord Beaverbrook
(1879-1964)
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[T]he more we explore, the better off America is. … I believe in pushing boundaries. George W. Bush
Comm Check…, Michael Cabbage & William Harwood, 2004
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and …
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions…. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable. Friedrich A. Hayek
Nobel Prize Winner, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960 (1899-1992)
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government …
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson
1801 (1743-1826) (Investor’s Business Daily, November 25, 1998)
We don’t have a revenue problem. The government gets plenty of …
We don’t have a revenue problem. The government gets plenty of revenue. What’s wrong is that the government spends too much money. John Snow
United States, Secretary of the Treasury, June 2003
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual …
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. Mahatma Ghandi
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming …
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void.
U.S. Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)