"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
~~~~~ Milton Friedman
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Thout for Today
Monday, July 30, 2012
Thought for Today
"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
~~~~~ Thomas Sowell
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Thought for Today
"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."
~~~~~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Thought for Today
"When a woman like that whom I've seen so much,
All of a sudden drops out of touch;
Is always busy and never can,
Spare you a moment, it means a man."
~~~~~ Alice Duer Miller
Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Thought for Today
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
~~~~~ Aldous Huxley
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Thought for Today
"Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world."
~~~~~ Orison Swett Marden
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Thought for Today
"In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man."
~~~~ John Philpot Curran
Monday, July 23, 2012
Thought for Today
"It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked."
~~~~~ Haile Selassie
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Thought for Today
"Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world."
~~~~~ Daniel Mainwaring
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Thought for Today
"And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say."
~~~~~ Matthew Prior
Friday, July 20, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Thought for Today
"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."
~~~~~ Victor Cherbuliez
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Thought for Today
"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
~~~~~ George Savile
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Thought for Today
"Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession."
~~~~~ Isaac Watts
Monday, July 16, 2012
Thought for Today
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first."
~~~~~ Ginger Rogers
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Thought for Today
"Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like."
~~~~~ Walter Benjamin
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Thought for Today
"When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have."
~~~~~ Owen Wister
Friday, July 13, 2012
Thought for Today
"We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents."
~~~~~ Paul Prudhomme
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Thought for Today
"Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert."
~~~~~ William Osler
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Thought for Today
"Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with."
~~~~~ John Wanamaker
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Thought for Today
"An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court."
~~~~~ Finley Peter Dunne
Monday, July 9, 2012
Thought for Today
"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."
~~~~~ Dorothy Thompson
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Thought for Today
"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."
~~~~~ John D. Rockefeller
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Thought for Today
"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
Friday, July 6, 2012
Thought for Today
"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win."
~~~~~ John Paul Jones
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Thought for Today
"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."
~~~~~ Mandell Creighton
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Thought for Today
"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."
~~~~~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
For the RINO Who Has Everything ...
Today is Sen. Lamar Alexander's (RINO-TN) 72nd birthday, so I decided to propose an appropriate gift:
No, not this time around, but 2014 will be here before we know it. Lamar has been marinating in the Washington DC cesspool so long that, just like Al Gore's father, the late Sen. Albert Gore Sr., he has lost touch with his constituents. It's long past time for him to join his friend Richard Lugar in retirement.
Thought for Today
"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
~~~~~ Edward Young
Monday, July 2, 2012
Thought for Today
"All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened."
~~~~~ Hermann Hesse
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Thought for Today
"It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society."
~~~~~ Gideon Welles
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