The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. — Carl Jung

“Despite his appearance of confidence, Obama’s is an empty soul in search of fulfillment.  The salve for his wounded heart is the acquisition of raw power. Power that is unimpeded, unopposed, and subject only to the capricious whims of a self-conscious, … Continue reading →

“For me, I shall come some day to the real sciences and I shall learn astrology,” the 16th Century mystic Bartholomew de las Casas said to the youthful explorer Hernando Cortez. Replied Cortez, “You can never pick me a destiny … Continue reading →

I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. Ken Venturi

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. — Milton Friedman

“We’ve got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.” — Bill Clinton, on why Medicare and Social Security cannot be left as they are   “Yes we can.” — Obama’s response to reality, whenever … Continue reading →

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — John W. Gardner

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” — Ayn Rand, from “The Fountainhead”

‘Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.’ — George Bernard Shaw

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. — Thomas Jefferson

It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to … Continue reading →