Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers. George Santayana
(1863-1952)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife …
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Lana Turner
By any objective criteria, the Federal Reserve has been a colossal flop. …
By any objective criteria, the Federal Reserve has been a colossal flop. Instead of maintaining the purchasing power of the dollar, the greenback has lost approximately 95% of its value since the Fed’s founding.The Fed was also supposed to use its tools to banish the business cycle, or at l east ‘smooth out’ the economy’s ups and downs. Instead, the Fed has given us the Great Depression, and nearly a dozen business recessions, including the deep downturns of 1973-75 and the off and on downturn of 1980-1982. Murray Sabrin
Dec 19, 2003
In purely practical terms, it is obviously easier for action to be …
In purely practical terms, it is obviously easier for action to be taken by one House without submission to the President; but it is crystal clear from the records of the Convention, contemporaneous writings and debates, that the Framers ranked other values higher than efficiency.
INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 958-59 (1983)
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power …
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and …
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it …
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
Letter to M. Leroy, 1789, (Daniel DeFoe said soemthing similar regarding death and taxes 50 years before) 1706-1790
Defending liberty is not a sometime job. We have to keep at …
Defending liberty is not a sometime job. We have to keep at it, because the forces that threaten our rights are well-organized, well-funded and committed. Dan Gillmor
July 3, 2001, San Jose Mercury News
There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes …
There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. Jim Hightower
former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Congressman (Democrat)
No great man ever says that success is made through fraud; every …
No great man ever says that success is made through fraud; every small man [does.] Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)