Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.
Commencement address, Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, May 9, 1992
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce
The Devil’s Dictionary
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money. Dwight D. Eisenhower
February 9, 1955 (34th President of the United States, 1890-1969)
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865), 16th president of the United States.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world. Colin Powell
reported in U.S. News & World Report January 29, 2001
If everything seems to be going well you obviously don’t know what the hell is going on.Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Don’t question why she needs to be so free. She’ll tell you it’s the only way to be. The Rolling Stones
Ruby Tuesday
Elite opinion — including Bill Clinton — now concedes that Dan Quayle was right: The breakdown of the family is the key to many of America’s worst social ills. William Kristol
William Kristol, Policy Review, Winter 1994
Our founding fathers sought to create a new order of society based on individual merit rather than on a special status conferred by birth. You can’t put labels on certain groups and then claim equal protection of the laws for everyone. We regress when we do so. Ken Moody
Bucknell University, class of 1936