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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. When you see large masses of men swayed by
what appear to be noble motives, it is well to look below the surface and ask yourself what it is that makes these motives
effective. . .
The main thing needed to make the world happy is intelligence. And this, after all is an optimistic conclusion, because
intelligence is a thing that can be fostered by known methods of education.
Bertrand Russell |
"The other party's nomination battle is still playing out. The candidates are an interesting group with diverse opinions:
for tax cuts and against them; for NAFTA and against NAFTA; for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act; in favor
of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts."
George W. Bush -
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take
an interest in you.
--Pericles (430 B.C.)
" Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the
more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. "
Thomas Paine
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing
in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
--WinstonChurchill
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have
for dinner.
--James Bovard (1994)
(Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) has always been one of my favorites. He delivered the eulogy at the funeral of
my paternal great-great-great grandfather, Prof. John Moffat.
If you think of Mark Twain as only a folksy yarn-spinner, you should get your hands on some of his
later works, like "Letters from the Earth". Sadly, he became so devastated by the deaths of loved ones and the failure
of his publishing ventures that he grew intensely bitter, but without losing his sense of humor.....the ideal combination
for cynical writing.)
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between
a dog and a man."
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the congress is in session.
--Mark
Twain (1866)
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves
the skin.
--Mark Twain
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
--Mark
Twain
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
--Mark Twain
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit
more."
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you, and the other
to get the news to you."
- MARK TWAIN
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes
to pay off with your money.
--G. Gordon Liddy
"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense
of everybody else.
--Frederic Bastiat
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted
as being self-evident.
Aurthur Shopenheimer
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have
for dinner.
--James Bovard (1994)
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Alec
Bourne
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H.G. Wells
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be
bought and sold are legislators.
--P.J. O'Rourke
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life
we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end
of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow
I'll submit more little by little....I hope. That reminds me of a scripture..."Boast not thyself of tommorow, for
thou knowest not what a day may bring forth" Proverbs 27:1
If you have one that I should like to add email me at:
mike@osceolatavern.com
