Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Monthly Archives: July 2023
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not …
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert
You can have your lord, you can have your king, but the …
You can have your lord, you can have your king, but the one to fear is your tax collector. Unknown
An unknown ‘columnist’ carved this on a stone tablet, in approximately 4,000 BC. Reported in Barron’s, June 20, 1997
E I believe that most of us reporters are liberal… Walter Cronkite …
E I believe that most of us reporters are liberal…
Walter Cronkite
The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday August 10, 2003
The privileges and immunities designated are those which of [natural and inalienable
The privileges and immunities designated are those which of [natural and inalienable] right belong to the citizens of all free governments. Clearly among these must be place the right to pursue lawful employment in a lawful manner, without other restraint than such as equally affects all persons. Mr. Justice Stephen Field
Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age, by Paul Kens. University Press of Kansas, 1997.
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In all things it is a good idea to hang a question …
In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted. Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970), English mathematician and philosopher
You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, …
You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, p 708, 2000
Thus for the American Conservative, there is no difficulty in identifying the …
Thus for the American Conservative, there is no difficulty in identifying the day’s overriding political challenge: it is to preserve and extend freedom. As he surveys the various attitudes and institutions and laws that currently prevail in America, many questions will occur to him, but the Conservative’s first concern will always be: Are we maximizing freedom? Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative (1909-1998)
My general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People … ought …
My general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People … ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to. Dick Cheney
August 2004, reported Sept 6, 2004, US News & World Report
The chief business of the American people is business. The chief ideal …
The chief business of the American people is business. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. … America is a nation of idealists Calvin Coolidge
1925 speech to newspaper editors (Barron’s November 23, 1998), 30th President of the United States (1923-1929) 1872-1933.