Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated. Thomas Jefferson
1798, on the meaning of ‘General Welfare’ in the U.S. Constitution.(1743-1826)
Monthly Archives: June 2024
Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure. Robert LeFevre …
Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.
Robert LeFevre
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present …
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
Vice President Al Gore’s attempt to speak nerd-talk to computer …
Vice President Al Gore’s attempt to speak nerd-talk to computer programmers has developed into a high-tech faux pas. A message hidden in the programming code for Gore’s presidential campaign Web site touts his support for sharing software codes. But the high tech aficionados who went looking behind the scenes found the entire site is built using products from Microsoft Corp. – a company that refuses toshare its programming code. ‘It’s like he’s saying he’s all for buying American cars and then driving around in a Honda,’ said Jim Jagielski, a core developer of the Apache software that powers most Internet Web sites. Al Gore
San Francisco Co., AP,4-9-99
Style is the art of being yourself … on purpose. Raquel Welch …
Style is the art of being yourself … on purpose.
Raquel Welch
No one should grow old who isn’t prepared to be ridiculous. …
No one should grow old who isn’t prepared to be ridiculous.
Sir John Mortimer
Creater of the BBC’s Rumpole of the Bailey. U.S. News & World Report, January 8, 2001
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the …
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. Bill Clinton
1998
My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never …
My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce. Joyce Brothers
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment of men …
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment of men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. Louis Brandeis
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
We hate our politicians so much that even if they tell us …
We hate our politicians so much that even if they tell us they lied, we don’t believe them. Peter Newman