This quote is attributed to Mike Huckabee. I don’t know if he actually said it or not, hence the question mark, but its still solidly true.
re: the
The Government is going to borrow the money from China to give to the American people to buy Chinese goods… the only economy it will stimulate is China’s.
“Do not allow anyone to tell you for what purpose you should live. To be happy and fulfilled, you do need a purpose, but let it be one rising out of who you are.” –
Nathaniel Branden
I am not sure I agree with the late Colonel Jeff Cooper on Reagan having those virtues but I whole heartedly agree with the rest of the quote.
Our esteemed patron, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is on record to the effect that voters should choose for their elected representatives people who are “honest, courageous and wise.” Those […]
I love the blocked quote.
Sometimes it seems to me that GenX and the following generations have never achieved anything real or lasting. Sure they have the wacky world web and E Bay and all that but it doesn’t compare to putting a man on the moon.
It always felt like the generations after the Boom […]
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
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Robertson Davies
Moon sent this revolution quote for you folks.
If anyone knows the author let me know and I’ll credit them.
If you’re fighting the system,then you’re still caught in it. The ultimate revolution is expressing who you really are.
Anon
The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.
Edward Dowling
Here is an old Yiddish Proverb quite cogent for todays political sphere and our reign of fools.
What use is wisdom when folly reigns? — Hanan J. Ayalti, ed., Yiddish Proverbs, 1949.
This is from a Dungeons and Dragons like game called Transhuman Space.
Game or not, as anyone who has fought red tape knows the quote is spot on.
After all, Truth is Truth.
Rasmus Juul Wagner, Denmark:
“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Petty power corrupts all out of proportion to actual power”.
Freakonomics is a great book and if you haven’t read, grab a copy. It is on my short list of “books that really help you think” and its a must read.
Here is there take on politically motivated fear
An ‘expert’ doesn’t so much argue the various sides of an issue as plant his flag
firmly […]