Sayings
Issue #8 posted 1999-01-01
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"Four things come not back--the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." -- Arabian proverb
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs." -- Walter Lippman, in An Inquiry into the Principles of a Free Society
"The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"To be killed by a man who is one step below you on the evolutionary ladder would be embarrassing." -- Bill Jeans
"I am growing very weary of being shown the light by people who can't do what I do, but know I'm not doing it right." -- Dick Johnson, author
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." -- W. Somerset Maugham
"The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt." -- Cicero
"The history of mankind is an immense sea of errors in which a few obscure truths may here and there be found. " -- Cesare Beccaria
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before." -- Alan Ashley-Pitt
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -- Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824
"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for." -- Joseph Addison.
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." -- Alfred North
"It is not as important to know all the answers as it is to understand all of the questions."
"Where I was born and where and how I lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest." -- Georgia O'Keeffe
"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed, but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men." -- John F. Kennedy
"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today, that I will be tomorrow." -- Louis L'Amour
"A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune." -- Henry Ward Beecher.
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." -- George Washington
"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison
"Knowledge is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't." -- Paul Leaman
"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." -- Harry S. Truman.
"Just 'cause you're paranoid, doesn't mean nobody's after you."
"Society Is Safer When Criminals Don't Know Who's Armed."
"The difference between practice and theory is greater in practice than in theory."
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." -- Goethe
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." -- Sigmund Freud
"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be." -- Goethe
"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
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but in its fears." -- A.C. Benson
"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help." -- John F. Kennedy.
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in 1928.
You'll get further with a smile and a gun than with just a smile.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."-- Samuel Adams
"The only exercise some people get is: jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck!" -- Anonymous
"Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." Anonymous
"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States; as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- Thomas Jefferson
"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord has intended a more divine form of consumption. Let us give praise to our maker and glory to His bounty by learning about BEER." -- Friar Tuck, Robin Hood (1991)
"Eagles may fly but weasels aren't sucked into jets." -- Brother Tom
"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. -- Samuel Johnson
"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."- U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442
Credentialing requirements, just like the "hold-harmless" agreements are unnecessary with honorable men and ineffective with the dishonorable.
"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans." -- Theodore Roosevelt
In this age of ostentatious ignorance we hear continually of the reprehensible nature of "antigovernment" propaganda. We repeat the wisdom of the Father of Our Country: "Government, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." -- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861
"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." -- Thomas Sowell
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence." -- C.A. Beard
"Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a constitution for a country I do not recognize." -- Supreme Court Justice Antoni Scallia
He who wanders unarmed deserves what he gets.
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." -- Alexis de Tocqueville
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." -- C.S Lewis
"Millions are fascinated by the plan to transform the whole world into a bureau, to make everybody a bureaucrat, and to wipe out any private initiative. The paradise of the future is visualized as an all-embracing bureaucratic apparatus. . . . Streams of blood have been shed for the realization of this ideal." -- Ludwig Edler von Mises
"If one does not fail at times, one has not challenged himself sufficiently." -- Ferdinand Porsche
"Every man who goes into the Indian country should be armed with a rifle and a revolver, and he should never, either in camp or out of it lose sight of them. When not on the march, they should be placed in such a position that they can be seized at an instants warning; and when moving about outside of camp, the revolver should invariably be worn in the belt, as the person does not know at what moment he may have use for it." -- Excerpt from The Prairie Traveler, by Randolph B. Marcy, CPT, US Army, 1859