Thought for Today

"No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."

~~~~~ Elie Wiesel

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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."

~~~~~ Ludwig von Mises

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"Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light."

~~~~~ Ellis Peters

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"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."

~~~~ Samuel Adams

Thought for Today

"The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it."

~~~~~ T. S. Eliot

(It appears that Obama is no exception.)

Thought for Today

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

~~~~~ William Faulkner

Thought for Today

"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."

~~~~~ John Marshall

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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."

~~~~~ Walter Lippmann

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"The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does."

~~~~~ Maurice Barres

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"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."

~~~~ Joseph Story

Thought for Today

"What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning."

~~~~~ Sen. Chuck Grassley

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"Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit."

~~~~~ Robert H. Schuller

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"Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion."

~~~~~ James Fenimore Cooper

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"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."

~~~~~ Allan Bloom

Minnesota Majority: Obama TRAPPED in Keynesian Twilight Zone

Thought for Today

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

~~~~~ J. B. Priestley

Thought for Today

"Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got."

~~~~~ Lewis B. Hershey

Respect: The Budweiser Clydesdale Salute to 9/11

Thought for Today

"Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

~~~~~ David Herbert Lawrence

Thought for Today

"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."

~~~~~ Arnold Palmer

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"Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not."

~~~~~ Daniel Pipes

Thought for Today

"If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world."

~~~~~ Claude Pepper

Thought for Today

"Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class."

~~~~~ Al McGuire

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"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."

~~~~~ Taylor Caldwell

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"Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes."

~~~~ Christoph Martin Wieland

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"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not."

~~~~~ David Seabury

The Real Reason?

Turns out that the bust of Churchill that Obama so disdainfully returned to the British was sculptured by Sir Jacob Epstein – a Jew. So perhaps there was more to the Putz-in-Chief's actions than sympathy with his Mau-Mau grandfather who was arrested and interrogated by the British.

Suggestion: whichever Republican candidate wins the Presidency should ask the Brits if he (or she) could please borrow the bust for the length of his term so that it could be restored to its place of honor in the Oval Office. Each successor President should then renew the request before taking office.

Thought for Today

"The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation."

~~~~~ Dixie Lee Ray

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"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it."

~~~~~ Henry George

Thought for Today

"I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair."

~~~~ Leverett Saltonstall