Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of …
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind…Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. Thomas Jefferson
Encyclopedia of Thomas Jefferson, 318 (1743-1826)
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Benjamin Franklin Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’…
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Benjamin Franklin
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. 1706-1790
In the stock market, like the rest of life, there’s always …
In the stock market, like the rest of life, there’s always the temptation to substitute rules for judgment. John Rubino
March 23, 2001, TheStreet.com
Among a people generally corrupt, Liberty cannot long exist. Edmund Burke Edmund …
Among a people generally corrupt, Liberty cannot long exist. Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Liberty February 1999
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow …
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older they know it. Oscar Wilde
Author (Investor’s Business Daily, January 14, 1999)
If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different …
If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life tenure and they should be made directly responsible to the electorate. Felix Frankfurter
Graves v. New York , 306 US 466 (1939) Ã
From each according to his own free will, to each according to …
From each according to his own free will, to each according to his own hard work. Unknown
Here in its spectacular glory is the magnificent result of 70 years …
Here in its spectacular glory is the magnificent result of 70 years of the welfare state of the federal war on poverty. Tens of thousands of people [of New Orleans] lacking sufficient money to enable them to escape oncoming disaster for just a few days, dependent on the federal government for their salvation, desperately waiting for federal officials to deliver food and water to them, and to pick them up and deliver them to government – run refugee centers around the nation. Jacob Hornberger
September 2005
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from …
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. Ludwig von Mises
(1881-1973)