Thought for Today

"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall."

~~~~~ Paul Harvey

Thought for Today

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

~~~~~ Peter Drucker

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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."

~~~~~ Thomas Jefferson

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"You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people."

~~~~~ Will Rogers

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"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

~~~~~ Carl Sandburg

Thought for Today

"We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight."

~~~~~ President Calvin Coolidge

Thought for Today

"What is done with joy is always better done."

~~~~~ H. L. Mencken

Thought for Today

"The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one."

~~~~~ Lewis Grizzard

Thought for Today

"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure."

~~~~~ Lao Tzu

Thought for Today

"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."

~~~~~ Stephen Leacock

Thought for Today

"The federal deficit is outrageous. For years I've asked that we stop pushing onto our children the excesses of our government. And what the Congress finally needs to do is pass a constitutional amendment that mandates a balanced budget – and forces government to live within its means. States, cities, and the families of America balance their budgets. Why can't we?"

~~~~~ Ronald Reagan

Thought for Today

"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."

~~~~~ William Hazlitt

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"The character of a people may be ruined by charity."

~~~~~ Theodor Herzl

Thought for Today

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

~~~~~ Winston Churchill

Thought for Today

"I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will."

~~~~~ Joan of Arc

Thought for Today

"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."

~~~~~ Thomas Szasz

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"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

~~~~~ Robert A. Heinlein

Thought for Today

"What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?"

~~~~~ Antonin Scalia

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"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

~~~~~ Omar N. Bradley

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"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error."

~~~~~ Dr. Benjamin Rush

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"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

~~~~~ Edmund Burke

Thought for Today

"In the days ahead we need to systematically redevelop our approach to this [terrorism] problem, recognizing that the worst outcome of all is one in which terrorists succeed in transforming an open democracy into a closed fortress."

~~~~~ Ronald Reagan

Thought for Today

"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned."

~~~~~ Charles Sumner

Thought for Today

"We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task."

~~~~~ Theodore Bikel

Thought for Today

"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."

~~~~~ Ovid

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"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."

~~~~~ William Howard Taft

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"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."

~~~~~ Orville Wright

Thought for Today

"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."

~~~~~ Malcolm Forbes

Thought for Today

"What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes."

~~~~~ James L. Buckley

Thought for Today

"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty in finding someone to blame your troubles on. And when you do find someone, it's remarkable how often their picture turns up on your driver's license."

~~~~~ P.J. O'Rourke