Experience is the only teacher that gives the test first — and the lesson later. — Vernon Law
Life Lesson
Category: Quotations
Even New Dealers Opposed the New Deal
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work … After eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … And an … Continue reading
Pre-January 20 Warning from Harry Truman
“There is no indispensable man in a democracy. When a republic comes to a point where a man is indispensable, then we have a Caesar. I do not believe that the fate of the nation should depend upon the life … Continue reading
2009: Freedom in the Balance
“Posterity: You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” –John Quincy Adams
Shakespeare Got It
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” — Shakespeare Shakespeare got it. Love is selfish. In other words, when you love … Continue reading
The Future That Might Have Been
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
One of the Good Guys
“It is imperative that we never suggest that there’s a moral equivalency between the United States of America and the terrorists. Period. I’ll believe that until the day I die.” — Tim Russert This is why he was one of … Continue reading
Time
“If we take care of the minutes, the years will take care of themselves.” — Benjamin Franklin
Obama: He’s No Truman
“No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” — Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman
Mind Over Matter
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter. — attributed to Bernard Baruch
Government–As It Was Supposed to Be
It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. — Robert Houghwout Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. … Continue reading
Semantics
Grissom: “How many crusades were fought in the name of God? How many people died because of someone’s ‘religion’?” Priest: “Fanaticism, not religion.” Grissom: “Semantics. They’re still dead.” from: CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, “Alter Boys.” (c) CBS Worldwide & Alliance-Atlantis … Continue reading