Jealous people poison their own banquet, and then eat it.
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally …
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. Thomas Jefferson
1790, (1743-1826).(Investor’s Business Daily, November 25, 1998)
The rule of law in America is under fire. The rule of …
The rule of law in America is under fire. The rule of law about which our chairman, Mr. Henry Hyde, spoke so eloquently just a few short moments ago; the rule of law which finds its highest and best embodiment in the absolute, the unshakable right each one of us has to walk into a courtroom and demand the righting of a wrong. Bob Barr
U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga. AP, Dec 18, 1998
Fallacies take strongest hold not when they are flatly stated, but when …
Fallacies take strongest hold not when they are flatly stated, but when they are buried in euphemism, assumption and implicit analogy, then repeated a thousand times in public discourse. So Wesley Clark refers to:1. ‘share of national income,’which implies a zero-sum game. Tiger Woods has a very high ‘share of national birdies.’ Therefore what exactly? Let’s redistribute some of his birdies to my scorecard?2. ‘the fortunate few.’ He makes no mention of any factor other than good fortune to explain why someone might earn more money than someone else. I used to think Tiger had achieved something great. Wesley Clark knows it was only luck. Barry Milliken
Wall Street Journal, Letters, January 14, 2004
Never argue with an idiot. They’ll drag you down to their …
Never argue with an idiot. They’ll drag you down to their level then beat you with experience. Unknown
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports …
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.
Response to Debbi Fields’s idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies Entertainment
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it …
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment — Independence now and Independence forever. Daniel Webster
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. P. 136. 1782-1852
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books …
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us …
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which once entered is scarcely to be restrained from reaching, successively, every article of property and produce. Thomas Jefferson
[On the evil of taxation and the problems to be expected](1743-1826)
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the …
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790