Robin Hood fought against looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed: he was not a champion of need or a provider of the poor.
Paraphrase from Atlas Shrugged
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson …
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by …
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than …
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. Adam Smith
1776
Look to this day For it is life The very life of …
Look to this day For it is life The very life of life. In its brief course lie all The realities and verities of existence The bliss of growth The splendor of action The glory of power For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Sanskrit Proverb
Once one accepts the principle of self-ownership, what’s moral and …
Once one accepts the principle of self-ownership, what’s moral and immoral becomes self-evident. Murder is immoral because it violates private property. Rape and theft are also immoral — they also violate private property. Dr. Walter E. Williams
May 7, 2003, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20030507.shtml
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. …
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Admiral Hyman Rickover
IF IT WERE UP TO ME WE’D BAN THEM ALL U….
IF IT WERE UP TO ME WE’D BAN THEM ALL U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds (D) CNN Crossfire 12/9/93 on gunsThe Constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams, Debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
Women’s liberationists spread the word that…the only peaceful family is …
Women’s liberationists spread the word that…the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. R. Emmett Tyell
The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984
The world is as good as you are. You’ve got to …
The world is as good as you are. You’ve got to learn to like yourself first. I’m a little screwed up, but I’m beautiful. Steve McQueen