Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
John Quincy Adams
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, ‘What greater service …
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, ‘What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.’ But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964
Yes, every bit of saved energyNby insulating homes, driving lessNhelps. But we …
Yes, every bit of saved energyNby insulating homes, driving lessNhelps. But we shouldn’t fool ourselves that individual eco-conscious behavior can prevent dangerous global warming.E Newsweek
April 14, 2008
Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to …
Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to liberty, and few nations, if any, have found it. John Adams
What technologists do is create technologies. What policymakers do is try to …
What technologists do is create technologies. What policymakers do is try to control technologies that do ill and what criminals do is use the technology for ill purposes. So go after the criminals, not the technologists.Computer technologists should not be held to a higher standard than anyone else. These questions were never asked when automobiles, paper clips, candlesand computers themselves were invented. Fortunately not, because if society were bound to invent technologies which could only be used entirely within the law, then we would still be sitting in caves sucking our feet. Gene Kan
creator of Gnutella in http://salon.com/tech/feature/2000/08/07/yoink_napster/index.html
People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging …
People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. L. Neil Smith
The Probability Broach
The top 50% of taxpayers pay 95.4% of all income taxes. …
The top 50% of taxpayers pay 95.4% of all income taxes.
Investor’s Business Daily, July 22, 1998
They were iron men; they fought for the principle they were contending …
They were iron men; they fought for the principle they were contending for; and [from them] the degree of prosperity we now enjoy has come to us. Abraham Lincoln
On the founding fathers of the United States of America (1809-1865)
He [Dave Brown, shuttle Columbia Astronaut
He [Dave Brown, shuttle Columbia Astronaut] wanted me to make sure that I could find the people or person that may have been the cause of the accident. I want you to go up there and tell them that I hold no animosity for what happened. I died doing what I loved and have no regrests. Ann Micklos
what Dave Brown told former NASA girlfriend Ann Micklos if he didn’t come back from a mission, like Columbia. (Comm Check…, Michael Cabbage & William Harwood, 2004)
wanted me to make sure that … ]
The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and …
The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J.Boyd, Ed., 1950), (1743-1826)