The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Bertrand Russell
Monthly Archives: April 2023
It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to …
It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to the times, to preach against such sins as are most prevalent, and recommend such virtues as are most wanted. John Adams
American diplomat and 2nd President of the United States from 1797-1801 (1735-1826)
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‘Democracy: A government for the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting…. results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic, negatingproperty rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shallregulate… Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.’ — U.S. Army Training Manual, Nov 1928. –> LATER, ARMY’S NEW DEFINITION –>’Meaning of Democracy: Because the United States is a democracy, the majorityof our people shall decide how our government is organized and run.’– U.S. Army ‘The Soldier’s Guide,’ June 1952.
Gun control advocates also include suicide in their Ogun crimeO stats while …
Gun control advocates also include suicide in their Ogun crimeO stats while bemoaning the U.S.Os Ogun culture.O Yet Western EuropeOs suicide rate is twice ours, and suicide is far more common than homicide on both sides of the Atlantic. So which side has a Ocultural problemO in that regard. Reason
Aug/Sept 2007
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who …
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She …
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848), 6th President of United States 1825-1829
The way from private enterprise to a collective, planned economy is easy, …
The way from private enterprise to a collective, planned economy is easy, the result fatal. The way back to sanity, however, is exceedingly painful. It leads unavoidably through a period of chaos, with local revolutions breaking out, being brutally crushed, and then breaking out again somewhere else. Unknown
Taxes (and spending) become heavier in times of war and should diminish …
Taxes (and spending) become heavier in times of war and should diminish by rights, when the war is over. This is not, however, what happens. Taxes [never] regain their pre-war level. That is because the level of expenditure rises to meet the wartime level of taxation. Parkinson
Parkinson’s Law
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The …
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)