Quotes

Politics

The American leftists are all cowards at heart.  It isn't that they oppose fundamentalism; if that was the case they'd have opposed Mohammedanism.  It isn't that they support equal rights; if that was the case they'd have opposed the Taliban.  It isn't that they oppose oppression and violence; if that was the case they’d oppose Red China.  It isn't that they oppose greed; if that was the case millionaire trial lawyers wouldn’t be their darlings.  It isn’t that they oppose suffering; if that was the case they wouldn't have pushed Africa to ban DDT and therefore allow epidemics of malaria to kill countless children.  What they ultimately oppose and fear is having something worth defending.  Therefore what ever America does is wrong, and not only not worth defending, but morally wrong to defend.   In time of crisis they rationalize that the highest duty is to snicker and sneer from the side lines at those who do the hard work and take the risks.  –Editor

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.  –Eric Hoffer

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal.  There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.  –G. K. Chesterton

In the 1970's there were some cold winters that felt even worse because thermostats were turned down due to high oil costs.  The government had to do something about global cooling.  In the 1990's there were some hot summers that felt even worse due to a shortage of air conditioners.  The government has to do something about global warming.  Warm, hot, cold, no matter, the solution is always the same: grants for scientists and more power for the nameless bureaucrats in government.  –Editor

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.  –C.S. Lewis

If people are free to do as they wish, they are almost certain not to do as we wish.  That is why Utopian planners end up as despots, whether at the national level or at the level of the local "redevelopment" agency.  –Thomas Sowell

All of political science comes down to this: governments will do what ever it takes to stay in power.   –Editor

There are no easy answers...but there are simple answers.  We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.  -- Ronald Reagan

The media often mention "ultra-conservatives" but never "ultra-liberals."  Have ultra-liberals become extinct, gotten lost, or met with foul play?  We cannot ignore the fate of fellow human beings, even if we differ with them politically.  At the very least, we can report them as missing persons.  –Thomas Sowell

I wouldn't take advice from the average actor on how to fix my car or replace a hot water heater in my house.  I sure wouldn't let my Doctor listen to advice from an actor in how to treat an illness.  So why should I take their advice regarding politics, which can have consequences of greater severity?  –Editor

If we are serious, we can compare one alternative to another, instead of comparing one alternative to perfection.  –Thomas Sowell

Government is not reason.  Government is not eloquence.  It is force.  And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.   --George Washington

Lenin said that capitalists would sell the rope that would be used to hang them.  Now capitalists think that so long as the communists are dependent on them for rope that they will never be hanged.  Worst of all would be to give them a rope factory.  In case anyone has forgotten: China is a communist country.  –Editor

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.  --Eric Hoffer

In the election of 1992, it was all about the recession and foreign policy was passé.  The recession ended before 1992 was even over.  In the next eight years at least three third world countries developed the atomic bomb—two of which supported terrorism, and another four or five got close to it; radical Mohammedanism festered and was emboldened by America’s impotent responses to various outrages; Russia fell into turmoil; and communist China set the stage to become a greater threat than the USSR ever was.  The person who said “it's the economy, stupid” was telling stupid people to be concerned only of the economy because it was the only percieved weakness of the sitting president.  –Editor

Religion

 There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.  –G.K. Chesterton

 So called scientists who, a priori, proclaim that a creator is impossible, are the ones who are narrow minded and superstitious; they try to exclude possibilities before they even examine the question.  –Editor

 The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.  –G.K. Chesterton

 Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed.  That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity.  It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.  –C.S. Lewis

 Don’t call Mohammedans “Islamic.”  Islam means submission to God.  From what I see, they may indeed be submitting to a spiritual being, but it isn't God.  For lack of a better word, Mohammedan describes them best.  –Editor

 From time to time, as we all know, a sect appears in our midst announcing that the world will very soon come to an end.  Generally, by some slight confusion or miscalculation, it is the sect that comes to an end.   –G.K. Chesterton

The News Media

 Learning about America from the news media is like learning about the wonders of indoor plumbing by wallowing in a cesspool.  –Unknown

 Think of any time when the news media reported on anything of which you personally had knowledge.   Did they get any of it right?  If not, then why should you think that they ever get anything else right?  --Editor

 The media often mention "ultra-conservatives" but never "ultra-liberals."  Have ultra-liberals become extinct, gotten lost, or met with foul play?  We cannot ignore the fate of fellow human beings, even if we differ with them politically.  At the very least, we can report them as missing persons.  –Thomas Sowell

Business

 In business, the success or failure of a manager does not depend on the success or failure of the business, but rather on how well that manager can explain the reason for failure.  –Editor

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.  --George S. Patton

Computer systems are never replaced because they don't work.  They are replaced when the unofficial work-arounds on paper and Excel stop working.   Then a new system is installed that doesn't work either.  –Editor

Misc.

The lottery is a tax on those who don't know math.  –Unknown

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.  –G. K. Chesterton

The lawyers with full page ads in the phone book--the ones proclaiming million dollar judgments for any and every cause--would better help society if they would instead drive their BMW’s into the nearest telephone pole immediately after filling out organ donor cards.  –Editor

 It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them.  Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.  –Thomas Sowell

Why was syphilis to have been prevented by the people exposed to it changing their behavior, but AIDS is to be prevented by everyone not exposed to it changing their behavior?  --Editor

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.  –G.K. Chesterton

When the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails.  –Unknown

It's not the critic who counts.  It's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deed could have done it better.  The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who strives valiantly, who errs and come up short again and again, who at best knows the high achievement of triumph, who at worst, fails while daring greatly for he knows his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.  --Theodore Roosevelt

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.  –G.K. Chesterton

Education