It should be noted that while the State is the sort of institution which performs small tasks badly, it performs large tasks badly also. Robert Anton Wilson
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of …
We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war [in 2008]. Sen. Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding. Senator Harry Reid
On the meaning of the Iraq War to the Democrat Party, April 13, 2007
Only half of all hybrid vehicles on the U.S. market are …
Only half of all hybrid vehicles on the U.S. market are more fuel-efficient than their non-hybrid versions, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists find: some models pair a big gas-guzzling engine with hybrid technology in a way that enhances only performance, not fuel economy, explains UCS’s David Friedman. Newsweek
April 14, 2008
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over …
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison
James Madison Federalist #46 (1751-1836)
It is said that he fought against the looting rulers and returned …
It is said that he fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. Ayn Rand
On Robin Hood, in Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. Mark Twain Samuel …
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Black students have the lowest grade point average of any student group. …
Black students have the lowest grade point average of any student group. If whites were not so preoccupied with escaping their own guilt, they would see that the real problem is not racism; it is that black students are failing in tragic numbers. They don’t need separate dorms and yearbooks. They need basic academic skills. But instead they are taught that extra entitlements are their due and that the greatest power of all is the power that comes to them as victims. If they want to get anywhere in American life, they had better wear their victimization on their sleeve, they had better tap into white guilt, making whites want to escape by offering money, status, racial preferences — something, anything–in return. Is this the way for a race that has been oppressed to come into its own? is this the way to achieve independence? Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele, 1992
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it …
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again. Thomas Paine
Age of Reason. Part ii. note. (Probably this is the original of Napoleon’s celebrated mot, ‘Du sublime au ridicule il n’y a qu’un pas’ (From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step).) 1737-1809.
Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free …
Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free. P. J. O’Rourke
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[Election day] you will not be electing masters, you will be choosing employees, servants of your will, guardians of your rights. Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996