Thought for Today

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”

~~~~~ George Orwell

Thought for Today

"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants."

~~~~~ Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 1, 27 October 1787)

Thought for Today

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

~~~~~ Elbert Hubbard

Thought for Today

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

~~~~~ Isaac Asimov

Thought for Today

"Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief."

~~~~~ Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Thought for Today

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."

~~~~~ George William Curtis

Thought for Today

"A pig ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root around the tree. A crow remarked, `You should not do this. If you lay bare the roots, the tree will wither and die.' `Let it die,' said the pig. `Who cares so long as there are acorns?"

~~~~~ Government Fables

Thought for Today

“Before we panic about ‘global warming,’ we should take a look at six-day weather forecasts and see how much they change during those six days -- quite aside from how much they differ from what the weather actually turns out to be.”

~~~~~ Thomas Sowell

Thought for Today

“Entry into this country – either as an immigrant or a visitor – is a privilege, not a right. The safety of our citizens must come before the comfort and convenience of foreigners.”

~~~~~ Michelle Malkin

Thought for Today

Failures are divided into two classes – those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

~~~~~ John Charles Salak