Gun control advocates also include suicide in their Ogun crimeO stats while bemoaning the U.S.Os Ogun culture.O Yet Western EuropeOs suicide rate is twice ours, and suicide is far more common than homicide on both sides of the Atlantic. So which side has a Ocultural problemO in that regard. Reason
Aug/Sept 2007
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who …
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She …
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848), 6th President of United States 1825-1829
The way from private enterprise to a collective, planned economy is easy, …
The way from private enterprise to a collective, planned economy is easy, the result fatal. The way back to sanity, however, is exceedingly painful. It leads unavoidably through a period of chaos, with local revolutions breaking out, being brutally crushed, and then breaking out again somewhere else. Unknown
Taxes (and spending) become heavier in times of war and should diminish …
Taxes (and spending) become heavier in times of war and should diminish by rights, when the war is over. This is not, however, what happens. Taxes [never] regain their pre-war level. That is because the level of expenditure rises to meet the wartime level of taxation. Parkinson
Parkinson’s Law
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The …
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can …
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln
Most people want security in this world, not liberty. H.L. Mencken (…
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H.L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
The vice president has implied in the past that he saw combat …
The vice president has implied in the past that he saw combat in Vietnam, and that his work as an investigative reporter for the Nashville Tennessean put people in jail. Neither is true. Mona Charen
Sept 7, 2000
An election is nothing more than an advance auction of stolen goods. …
An election is nothing more than an advance auction of stolen goods. Ambrose Bierce