‘Why yes, I can,’ said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. ‘The man who uses another’s pity for him as a weapon.’ Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Monthly Archives: January 2023
We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for …
We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick – professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, ‘We the people,’ this breed called Americans. Ronald Reagan
First Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1981
Everyone craves freedom and prosperity. A growing body of evidence shows that, …
Everyone craves freedom and prosperity. A growing body of evidence shows that, for nations, the two are linked. The most prosperous nations are the most free, a number of recent studies show.
Investors Business Daily, August 26, 1997
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by …
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)