If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort, safety or money that it values more, it will lose that too. W. Somerset Maugham
Monthly Archives: August 2024
And when memory failed and written records were falsifiedNwhen that happened, the …
And when memory failed and written records were falsifiedNwhen that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested. George Orwell
1984
Don’t give up the ship! James Lawrence Tradition has it that …
Don’t give up the ship!
James Lawrence
Tradition has it that Capt. James Lawrence said these heroic words after being mortally wounded in the engagement between his ship, the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, and H.M.S. Shannon on 1 June 1813. As the wounded Lawrence was carried below, he ordered ‘Tell the men to fire faster! Don’t give up the ship!’ Although the Chesapeake was forced to surrender, Captain Lawrence’s words lived on as a rallying cry during the war. Oliver Hazard Perry honored his dead friend Lawrence when he had the motto sewn onto the private battle flag flown during the Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September 1813. (William S. Dudley, ed., The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History [Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1992] 2: 559)
Now it’s clear what is really killing the AIDS victims of …
Now it’s clear what is really killing the AIDS victims of Africa: Neglect in their own countries and kleptocratic administrations that keep their people from creating wealth. Thomas G. Donlan
Barron’s, April 30, 2001
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do …
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Playwright
Airline deregulation facts (1993) – Ticket prices in real terms are 20 percent …
Airline deregulation facts (1993)- Ticket prices in real terms are 20 percent lower than in 1978 when deregulation took effect.- Over 100,000 new jobs have been created in the airline industry since 1978.- In 1978, 17 percent of travelers could book non-stop flights between cities. In 1989, 27 percent of traverlers could.- In 1978, 28 percent of all travelers could chose from 3 or more airlines. Today 55 percent can chose from 3 or more airlines.
Reason Magazine, June 1993
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in …
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. Douglas Casey
-1992
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they …
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. Tom Mullen
While it is largely agreed that there is a crucial need to …
While it is largely agreed that there is a crucial need to defend the freedom of business in order to avoid additional regulation, the fact that free enterprise has already been crippled by government intervention is ignored…. Many business spokesmen seem to believe the existing system of interventions represents free enterprise, whereas any new regulations would be socialistic. Charles G. Koch
‘Anti-Capitalism and Business,’ Reason Magazine, December 1975