Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all, it makes it possible for us to make up our mind and arrange to live sensibly, truthfully, and always with a sense of our own limitations.If men believe, as I do, that this present earth is the only heaven, they will strive all the more to make heaven of it. Jean Riley Anderson
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Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock …
Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it. Will Rogers
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated …
The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincon’s Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. The Atlanta Journal
1990s
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower …
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field. William Shakespeare
Rom & Jul, Act iv, Sc.4
Truth loves an appeal to the common sense of mankind. Samuel Adams (…
Truth loves an appeal to the common sense of mankind.
Samuel Adams
(1722-1803) – American revolutionary
Ten Guidelines (often erroneously attributed to Lincoln) 1. You cannot bring about …
Ten Guidelines (often erroneously attributed to Lincoln)1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.2. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.3. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.4. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.5. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.7. You cannot further brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.8. You cannot establish security on borrowed money.9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
The Clinton Administration’s health care plan is a large down payment …
The Clinton Administration’s health care plan is a large down payment on socialism, with future installments certain to be larger than advertised, whether measured in money or in lost freedom to make our own decisions about medical care that are literally questions of life and death. Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Forbes, January 17, 1994, (1930- ) American writer, scholar and economist, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute,Stanford, California
The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and …
The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. U.S. Supreme Court
Ex parte Milligan, 1866
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert …
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover
Crank — a man with a new idea, until it succeeds. Mark Twain …
Crank — a man with a new idea, until it succeeds.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)