Thoughts
From Amasa Delano
The more enlarged a mind becomes in its views of men and the world, the less it will be disposed to denounce the varieties of opinion and pursuit, and the more it will enjoy the benevolent results to which wisdom and philosophy point. A narrow mind chafes itself by its own prejudices; but a man, who is accustomed to generalise his observations, principles, and feelings, and to subdue his prejudices by a practical philanthropy, acquires an habitual superiority to the inequalities and provocations of society, and has learned the divine art of extracting good from evil.
2018-04-05 at 15:06:45
More From H. L. Mencken
The state -- or, to make matters more concrete, the government -- consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can not get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting from A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advanced auction on stolen goods.
2018-04-04 at 12:15:44
From Robert F. Kennedy on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. You can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization..filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.. What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black..
2018-04-03 at 14:29:33
More From Ayn Rand
Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not idealistic, no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
2018-03-30 at 14:57:39
More From Cousin Lucky
The " liar inside each and every human being is their very worst enemy "; an enemy very hard to even admit to; and an enemy much harder to truly overcome than any other obstacle faced in ones whole life!!
2018-03-21 at 12:59:35
From Jacob G. Hornberger
When a government agency is engaging in evil, the government itself is engaging in evil. And a government that is engaged in evil is not advancing goodness. It is advancing evil.
2018-03-21 at 12:34:41
From T.B. MacAulay
Nothing is so galling to people, not broken in from their birth, as a paternal, or, in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink, and wear.
2018-03-21 at 12:33:29
From Frederick Douglass
To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one (and) to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery, he must be made to feel that slavery is right.
2018-03-20 at 14:26:13
From Nat Hentoff
Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.
2018-03-20 at 14:24:45
From Paul Craig Roberts
There is no greater threat to life on earth than Washington, D.C. Constraining Washington, D.C. determination to destroy life on earth is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. If we fail, we all die, every one of us and all of earths creatures.
2018-03-17 at 17:45:34
From Clarence B. Carson
Men live their lives within a framework of customary relations and patterns for achieving their ends and solving their problems. In the absence of positive force, they have worked out and accepted these patterns voluntarily, or they submit to them willingly. Any alteration of these by government involves the use or threat of force, for that is how governments operate. The old order must be replaced by a new order for the reform to be achieved. The result of the forceful effort to do this is disorder.
2018-03-16 at 12:40:05
From Fidel Castro
In a nuclear war the "Collateral Damage" would be the life of all humanity.
2018-03-13 at 13:26:32
From William E. Simon
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
2018-03-06 at 13:15:27
From Alan Barth
Nothing that the agents of Communism have done or can do to this country is so dangerous to the United States as what they have induced us to do to ourselves.
2018-03-02 at 11:27:52
From George Santayana
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
2018-02-27 at 21:09:30