However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only …
To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money- and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being- the self-made man- the American industrialist. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
I trust you with your own money. George W. Bush Tuesday October …
I trust you with your own money.
George W. Bush
Tuesday October 17, 2000
I can very well conceive that some one having an article containing …
I can very well conceive that some one having an article containing more or less opium would feel that he was in danger if the public knew of it, and with a pliable public official it would be easily possible for him to keep this damaging fact from public knowledge. Charles H. Fletcher
N.Y. Times, Apr. 15, 1892. On the impact that the predecessor to 1906 Act (“Wiley Act” on Food and Drugs) could have on the unscrupulous – an invitation to bribery.
That is the whole secret of successful fighting: Get your enemy at …
That is the whole secret of successful fighting: Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. George Bernard Shaw
Whenever the offense inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of …
Whenever the offense inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776
The justification for government in the first place is that man can’…
The justification for government in the first place is that man can’t betrusted with governance over himself. I say if man can’t be trusted withgovernance over himself, how could some men ever be trusted with governance over others? What makes these men so special? The fact they areelected? Duane Arquette
Defending liberty is not a sometime job. We have to keep at …
Defending liberty is not a sometime job. We have to keep at it, because the forces that threaten our rights are well-organized, well-funded and committed. Dan Gillmor
July 3, 2001, San Jose Mercury News
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[L]ooked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. …No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.Whether the whites won the land by treaty, by armed conflict, or, as was actually the case, by a mixture of both, mattered comparatively little so long as the land was won. It was all-important that it should be won, for the benefit of civilization and in the interests of mankind. It is, indeed, a warped, perverse, and silly morality which would forbid a course of conquest that has turned whole continents into the seats of mighty and flourishing civilized nations. …It is as idle to apply to savages therules of international morality which obtain between stable and cultured communities, as it would be to judge the fifth-century English conquest of Britain by the standards of to-day.The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. …[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West: Book IV, 1896 (26th President of the United States, 1858-1919)
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of …
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation–and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone’s suffering. Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)