No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H.L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from …
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. Sir John Eric Ericksen
Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1837
I’ve never met a fourth-grader who didn’t have all …
I’ve never met a fourth-grader who didn’t have all the self-esteem I can handle. Can we teach how to have LESS self-esteem? Joe Bob Briggs’ mother
Teacher who taught 4th grade for more of her career (name unspecified), http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com, June 2003
Gun control advocates also include suicide in their Ãgun crimeà stats while …
Gun control advocates also include suicide in their Ãgun crimeà stats while bemoaning the U.S.Ãs Ãgun culture.à Yet Western EuropeÃs suicide rate is twice ours, and suicide is far more common than homicide on both sides of the Atlantic. So which side has a Ãcultural problemà in that regard. Reason
Aug/Sept 2007
As long as you’re in a threatening mood, you had better …
As long as you’re in a threatening mood, you had better climb up on your cornerstone and pray for my soul because I am going to foreclose. Hetty Howland Robinson Green
p 189, Hetty, Charles Slack, 2004. (1834-1916)
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It …
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Noah Webster
Those who reap the blessings of liberty must, like men, undergo the …
Those who reap the blessings of liberty must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine, 1777, 1737-1809.
Robin Hood fought against looting rulers and returned the loot to those …
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
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