Category: Quote of the Week

“Liberalism, with its ever changing totem pole of hierarchy of its causes, is like a continuous game of Jenga, except that no matter who causes it to fall, it will be the Republican’s fault.” – Rourke

"Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else’s life." – Will Rogers

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." – General George Patton

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink." – George Orwell

"[P]oliticians gave us the idea that the things we could not afford individually we could somehow afford collectively through the magic of government." – Thomas Sowell

"But a constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty , once lost, is lost forever." – John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, July 7, 1775

“When you think it’s too late is the best time to act.” – Korean Proverb

“When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing.” – Charles Prince, CEO of Citigroup, as quoted in The Financial Times, July 9, 2007

"In a mature society, civil servant is semantically equal to civil master." – Robert A. Heinlein

"If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." – Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." – Letter from the Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina

"I fully understand the primary function of guns in the human condition: to protect oneself against the aggression of others. If other people are going to use them for the purpose of aggression, why, that’s all the more reason for me to own one (or in my case, considerably more than one)" – Kim du Toit

“When it all comes down, the last man standing is going to be standing there in shorts and sneakers [armed] with a ’98 Mauser, and all the ninja-looking guys belly up at his feet – with all their cool gear.” – Louis Awerbuck

"Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand." – Edward Everett Hale

"[T]he derivatives business is like hell–easy to enter and almost impossible to exit." – Warren Buffett