It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment — Independence now and Independence forever. Daniel Webster
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. P. 136. 1782-1852
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
In 26 states, competency tests for teachers require only minimum standards. Answering …
In 26 states, competency tests for teachers require only minimum standards. Answering 47 out of 104 questions correctly is considered a passing grade, even though no self-respecting teacher would pass a student who answered less than 50% of the questions on an exam correctly… From 1960 to 1980 the number of teachers grew by 57% but the number of principals and supervisors increased by 79%… the number of non-teaching staffers shot up by nearly 500%… for every 100 teachers in California there are 106 ‘non- teaching’ employees… the New York City Board of Education’s high school division decided to track every dollar of the $1.4B… spent in 1988-89… found that the city spent $6107/student, well above the national average, but non-class-room services ate up an astounding $4135 of that. Charles Colson & Jack Eckerd
Charles Colson & Jack Eckerd _Why America Doesn’t Work_
Women are just like a war, there is always another one coming …
Women are just like a war, there is always another one coming along. Sergeant Schultz
Hogan’s Heroes
There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs …
There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord. Homer
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find …
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo
Some of us do not agree with every statement in the official …
Some of us do not agree with every statement in the official platform of our party, but . . . if each segment, each section of our great party were to insist on the complete and unqualified acceptance of its views, if each viewpoint were to be enforced by a Russian-type veto, the Republican Party would not long survive. Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater, 1960 (1909-1998)
Vice President Gore likes to say that the federal government is now …
Vice President Gore likes to say that the federal government is now back to the size it was in President Kennedy’s Administration, but a look behind the curtain shows no such shrinkage. Real staff reductions are almost entirely confined to the Defense Department, for reasons having more to do with the de-invention of the Soviet Union than the reinvention of the government of the United States.Most of the civilian side of the government has expanded dramatically — especially if compared with the era of the Kennedy Administration, when there was no Medicare, no Medicaid, no Department of Housing and Urban Development, no Department of Education, no Department of Energy, no Department of Transportation and no Environmental Protection Agency, just to name a few things the government was content to ignore. Barron’s
Barron’s March 29, 1999 (http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB922491784617955647.htm)
The marvel of history is the patience with which men and women …
The marvel of history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. William E. Borah
For any individual, there are two ways to become wealthier. One is …
For any individual, there are two ways to become wealthier. One is to do something productive. The other is to redistribute existing resources in one’s own favor. If we all work, we create wealth, and society is better off. But if we all do nothing except try to get our hands into our neighbors’ pockets, we will all be very busy, yet we will all eventually starve.
Reason, May 1994
When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to …
When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side; when they are not clearly defined, but are hidden or evaded, it works to the advantage of the irrational side. Ayn Rand
1905-1982