The prudent mariner never relies solely on any single aid to navigation.
Old Mariner’s Proverb
Monthly Archives: October 2024
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come …
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
If it is now believed that my fellow men may sacrifice me …
If it is now believed that my fellow men may sacrifice me in any manner they please for the sake of whatever they deem to be their own good, if they believe that they may seize my property simply because they need it — well, so does any burglar. There is only this difference: the burglar does not ask me to sanction his act. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. …
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder …
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King Jr.
Clergyman and civil rights leader (Investor’s Business Daily, January 5, 1999) (1929-1968)
If somebody criticizes what the Attorney General has to say, they are …
If somebody criticizes what the Attorney General has to say, they are going to have to go back and confront in their own mind the fact that Samuel Adams proposed a right to keep and bear arms provision that was clearly individual. They will have to face all the other references that were quoted from the framers that made it clear that this was an individual right. This is not simply his opinion. This is what the framers intended. Stephen Halbrook
Constitutional scholar on a letter from U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
There’s no excuse for a grown man to have an affair …
There’s no excuse for a grown man to have an affair with an intern, whether his name is Bill Clinton or Jack Kennedy. What the former president did was wrong. Susan Estrich
May 14, 2003
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into …
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Gore: ‘I’ve accepted for two or three months now your invitation …
Gore: ‘I’ve accepted for two or three months now your invitation to debate on this program [Meet the Press with Tim Russert]. Have you gotten a yes from Governor Bush yet?’Russert: ‘His campaign says he will debate you, and the request is under consideration.’Gore: ‘Well, how are you going to persuade him to say yes, Tim?’Russert:’Well, maybe you’re helping today.’Gore: ‘Well, do you think so? But what kind of approach – can you get [GE CEO Jack Welch, NBC’s owner] involved?’ Al Gore
July 16, 2000, NBC transcripts and Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2000. When Governor Bush accepted this invitation in early September, the press tarred him with ‘ducking’ the debates because he agreed to be on Meet The Press, conveniently ignoring this exchange. Even ignoring that Gore said he would debate ‘any time, any where.’
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, …
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)