The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
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
The death of democracy is not likely to be assassination from ambush. …
The death of democracy is not likely to be assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert M. Hutchins
Great Books (1954)
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
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of …
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. Daniel Webster
Speech on Hamilton, March 10, 1831. P. 200. 1782-1852
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human …
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. John Adams
1798, American diplomat and 2nd President of the United States from 1797-1801 (1735-1826)
Judge, and be prepared to be judged. Ayn Rand VOS, (1905-1982)…
Judge, and be prepared to be judged.
Ayn Rand
VOS, (1905-1982)
With respect to the two words general welfare, I have always regarded …
With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the ‘Articles of Confederation,’ and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted. James Madison
in a letter to James Robertson(1751-1836)
Talk about an incentive for illegal immigration. How many more would break …
Talk about an incentive for illegal immigration. How many more would break the law to come to this country if promised U.S. government paychecks for life? Ron Paul
GOP Rep. Ron Paul of Texas on a proposal to allow illegal immigrants to collect social security. Arizona Republic, December 10, 2003
Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead …
Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently. John G. Vance