There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. P.J. O’Rourke
1993 (1947- )
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Meet the sun every day as if it could cast a ballot. …
Meet the sun every day as if it could cast a ballot.
Henry Cabot Lodge
advice to a novice politician
Recognize that you don’t live in a vacuum. Every time you …
Recognize that you don’t live in a vacuum. Every time you break a rule, it hurts someone else. If you can’t figure out how, sit there until you can. Albert J. Bernstein, PhD
Emotional Vampires
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[W]hile it is perfectly proper for a society to think about the unfortunate, it must never be encouraged to think like them. Peregrine Wilson
British Columnist Peregrine Wilson as quoted in George Will’s, The Leveling Wind.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. …
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
The essence of any presidency is character, just character. Eric Sevareid From …
The essence of any presidency is ‘character, just character.’ Eric Sevareid
From David McCullough’s biography of President Truman quoting Sevareid, TV news journalist (1912 – 1992)
Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! …
Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don’t you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough. Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (1840s)
Travelers should focus on their anger at the real problem – too much …
Travelers should focus on their anger at the real problem – too much government. Consumers need to ask why a group of senators must approve an increase or decrease in the number of daily flights into major airports. They need to ask why this dynamic industry isn’t controlled by the market instead of greasy-palmed politicos. Matthew Maletestinic
U.S. News and World Report, September 11, 2000
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that …
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is …
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881