Truth loves an appeal to the common sense of mankind.
Samuel Adams
(1722-1803) – American revolutionary
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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)
A native of America who cannot read or write is as rare …
A native of America who cannot read or write is as rare as…a comet or an earth quake. John Adams
in 1765, American diplomat and 2nd President of the United States from 1797-1801 (1735-1826)
A modest man, who has much to be modest about. Winston Churchill …
A modest man, who has much to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965 On Clement Atlee
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[S]neak it in through the stealth of the night, get it through when people aren’t looking. Jim Jeffords
U.S. Senator, on the ‘Northeast Dairy Compact’. April 2001, to AP, also reported June 20, 2001 Wall Street Journal.
Envy so often motivates the Left in its quest for redistribution. The …
Envy so often motivates the Left in its quest for redistribution. The economy is not a zero-sum game, and the wealth of a Bill Gates or a Michael Jordan does not take anything away from me. Indeed, the wealth of others enhances my life. Without the generosity of the rich, directly or through the foundations they have established, many of us who prefer life on a university faculty or at a think tank would have had quite different and less satisfying careers. Robert H. Bork
National Review, January 23, 1995