Thoughts
From Clarence Darrow
The world is suffering more today from the good people who want to mind other mens business than it is from the bad people who are willing to let everybody look after their own individual affairs.
2017-10-25 at 11:39:04
More From Cousin Lucky
After U. S. President John F. Kennedy was killed there was only one national figure that spoke the truth to my young mind. Those were the words of Malcolm X who stated " The Chickens Have Finally Come Home To Roost " which implied that the United States government had killed yet another countrys leader; in this case its own!!
Many young Americans have never again trusted anything our government has been involved with ever since.
2017-10-24 at 15:14:22
From Dwight D. Eisenhower
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They will have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
2017-10-24 at 12:15:23
From Edward R. Murrow
There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful. Stonewall Jackson, who knew something about the use of weapons, is reported to have said, "When war comes, you must draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." The trouble with television is that it is rusting in the scabbard during a battle for survival.
2017-10-22 at 20:40:44
From David Boaz
As long as Americans want to use drugs, and are willing to defy the law and pay high prices to do so, drug busts are futile. Other profit-seeking smugglers and dealers will always be ready to step in and take the place of those arrested.
2017-10-21 at 09:16:22
From Voltaire
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
2017-10-21 at 00:48:51
From Edward R. Murrow
There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful. Stonewall Jackson, who knew something about the use of weapons, is reported to have said, “When war comes, you must draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.†The trouble with television is that it is rusting in the scabbard during a battle for survival.
2017-10-18 at 15:58:21
From Gregg Popovich
"This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks that he can only become large by belittling others. This has of course been a common practice of his, but to do it in this manner-and to lie about how previous presidents responded to the deaths of soldiers-is as low as it gets. We have a pathological liar in the White House, unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office, and the whole world knows it, especially those around him every day. The people who work with this president should be ashamed, because they know better than anyone just how unfit he is, and yet they choose to do nothing about it. This is their shame most of all."
2017-10-17 at 23:03:50
From Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
2017-10-17 at 16:21:35
From H. L. Mencken
All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre - the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
2017-10-16 at 18:17:42
Some Off-Beat Humor!!
Some Off-Beat Humor!!
I took down my Rebel flag (which you can not buy on EBAY any more) and peeled the National Rifle Association sticker off my front window. I disconnected my home alarm system and quit the candy-ass Neighborhood Watch.
I bought two Pakistani flags and put one at each corner of the front yard. Then I purchased the black flag of ISIS (which you CAN Buy on EBAY) and ran it up the flag pole.
Now the local police, sheriff, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Homeland Security, Secret Service and other agencies are all watching my house 24-7.
I have NEVER felt safer and I am saving $79.95 a month that ADT used to charge me.
Plus, I bought burkas for me to wear when I shop or travel.
Everyone moves out of the way, and security can not pat me down. If they say I am a male wearing a burka, I just say that I am feeling like a woman today.
Hot Damn..Safe at last!! - God Bless America
2017-10-13 at 17:28:15
From Frank Herbert
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
2017-10-12 at 09:28:38
From John W. Whitehead
It does not matter whether you are talking about a politician, an entertainment mogul, a corporate CEO or a police officer: give any one person (or government agency) too much power and allow him or her or it to believe that they are entitled, untouchable and will not be held accountable for their actions, and those powers will eventually be abused.
2017-10-12 at 09:05:42
From Thomas Sowell
Freedom is not simply the right of intellectuals to circulate their merchandise. It is, above all, the right of ordinary people to find elbow room for themselves and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of their betters.
2017-10-09 at 20:46:01
More From A. Barton Hinkle
At its most basic, liberty consists of the right to be left alone. A government that subjects its citizens to pervasive surveillance without cause is not leaving them alone.
2017-10-07 at 11:10:42