Friday, July 07, 2017

Alexander Solzhenitsyn -

It’s a universal law — intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education, an ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Thomas Sowell -

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Eric Hoffer -

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

Friday, April 22, 2016

Don Surber -

White privilege -- a term I do understand -- is a notion that it is white people's turn to serve as second-class citizens.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Cymbeline -

Plenty and peace breed cowards.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Horace -

"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt."

“They change their sky, not their souls, who cross the sea.”

Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

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Political correctness is based on fear, guilt, and shame. Manners are based on holding oneself to higher standards.

Sunday, September 06, 2015

William Blake -

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Sarah Hoyt -

Our media are palace eunuchs gazing avidly at the harem of power and stroking their impotent pens in time to the rape of our liberties.

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Mark Twain -

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Friday, June 05, 2015

Aristotle -

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Monday, May 04, 2015

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No country was ever saved by good men,” Horace Walpole once observed, “because good men will not go to the length that may be necessary

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Martin Luther King, Jr -

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Monday, February 09, 2015

William F. Buckley, Jr -

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Winston Churchill -

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Thursday, October 09, 2014

Glenn Reynolds -

The bureaucrats are insufficiently afraid.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Confucius, Analects XIII:III:4 -

The superior man, in speaking of what he does not know, shows a cautious reserve.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Booker T. Washington -

There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.

Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.... as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.