The words in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution are quite clear … that racial preference is clearly unconstitutional and, notwithstanding the Constitution, racial preference is immoral and unnecessary. Groupthink, political correctness , and the like appear to also be blatant or subtle violations of the same [principles]. Richard Boddie
Bucknell University, class of 1961, self-described ‘black man’, Bucknell World, May 2003
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The statist society seeks to circumvent the clumsy encumbrances of democracy and …
The statist society seeks to circumvent the clumsy encumbrances of democracy and capitalism, and it always does so in the name of good things like health care and education. Theodore Forstmann
Theodore Forstmann, Address at Pepperdine University 1994
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. Zsa …
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
The United States Federal Constitution set up a government that was to …
The United States Federal Constitution set up a government that was to be a limited one with enumerated powers, now the politicians contend it is a practically unlimited one with enumerated restrictions. Unknown
Actually, it is foolish inconsistency that is the hobgoblin of little minds. …
Actually, it is foolish inconsistency that is the hobgoblin of little minds. Well considered consistency with all the evidence available is the hallmark of an ordered mind and ordered thought. Anyone who says otherwise is either too dumb to realize it or too dishonest to acknowledge it. Christian H F Riley
July 6, 1991
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of …
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. United States Constitution
First sentence of boy.
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know …
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other. W. Somerset Maugham
It’s aptly symbolic that the movement to reinvent the government has …
It’s aptly symbolic that the movement to reinvent the government has tried to express federal regulations in plain language: Making the panoply of federal rules more intelligible does not make them less burdensome. Barron’s
Barron’s March 29, 1999 (http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB922491784617955647.htm)
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only …
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Thomas Sowell
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays …
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays nine years ago no work on Natural History Science I have met with has made so great an impression on me & I do most heartily thank you for the great store of new views you have given me. . .As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite. . .I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you. . . And as to the curs which will bark and yelp — you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead — I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895, Letter of T. H. Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 23, 1859, regarding the Origin of Species