America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout all the world and to all the inhabitants thereof. George W. Bush
January 20, 2005
Medicare, let’s remember, is a handout… Holman W. Jenkins Jr. On …
Medicare, let’s remember, is a handout…
Holman W. Jenkins Jr.
On Medicare ‘Reform’, July 9, 2003, Wall Street Journal.
Don’t get divorced Charlie. I mean you’re going to lose …
Don’t get divorced Charlie. I mean you’re going to lose half your stuff, half your money and no matter what, your wife is still going to find a way to yell at you. Gary
Gary Unmarried, November 2008
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others – misfortune is …
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others – misfortune is not a mortgage on achievement – failure is not a mortgage on success – suffering is not a claim check, and its relief is not the goal of existence – man is not a sacrificial animal on anyone’s altar nor for anyone’s cause – life is not one huge hospital. Ayn Rand
Apollo 11, The Objectivist, (1905-1982)
It can be of no practical use to know that pi is …
It can be of no practical use to know that pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know. E.C. Titchmarsh
Mathematician
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long …
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn’t it? Rand Al’Thor
Wheel Of Time
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’…
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. William Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet, Act i. Sc.5
In a free society, the government’s job is simply to protect …
In a free society, the government’s job is simply to protect liberty – the people do the rest. Let’s not give up on a grand experiment that has provided so much for so many. Let’s reject the police state. Ron Paul
June 27, 2002 (Rep, R- Texas)
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal …
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance… John Philpot Curran
in a speech before the Privy Council on July 10, 1790. see The Speeches of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran, ed. Thomas Davis, pp. 94TH95 (1847).[Also attributed to Thomas Jefferson]
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Milton …
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006), Capitalism and Freedom, 1962