The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. John Quincy Adams
No man goes through life without working or causing someone else to …
No man goes through life without working or causing someone else to work all the harder to make up for his lack of it. Charles Hart
appeared in the March 1997 issue of CC Company Magazine
The Die was cast, the Rubicon crossed. John Adams On the significance …
The Die was cast, the Rubicon crossed.
John Adams
On the significance of the battle of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775
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Our overall gun crime rates pale in comparison to those of Latin America and the former Soviet Bloc, in spite of their much stricter gun laws. Reason
Aug/Sept 2007
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[I]t does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.. Samuel Adams
1722-1803, American revolutionary
Contributions and expenditures both involve core First Amendment expression because they further …
Contributions and expenditures both involve core First Amendment expression because they further the discussion of public issues and debate on the qualifications of candidates integral to the operation of the system of government established by our Constitution. When an individual donates money to a candidate or to a partisan organization, he enhances the donee’s ability to communicate a message and thereby adds to political debate, just as when that individual communicates the message himself. Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in Colorado Republican Campaign Cmte v. F.E.C. 518 U.S. 604 (1996).
We are a government of laws not opinions. Christian H F Riley …
We are a government of laws not opinions.
Christian H F Riley
October 1, 2002 on Rights.com
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. Milton Friedman Nobel …
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006) (Attributed to him)
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays …
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays nine years ago no work on Natural History Science I have met with has made so great an impression on me & I do most heartily thank you for the great store of new views you have given me. . .As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite. . .I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you. . . And as to the curs which will bark and yelp — you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead — I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895, Letter of T. H. Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 23, 1859, regarding the Origin of Species
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while …
A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)