Glenn Reynolds -

Communism capitalizes on envy, which is why it’s largely sustained by intellectuals, in whose personalities envy tends to be a particularly powerful component.

Richard P. Feynman -

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is ... If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

Issac Newton -

As to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sun Tzu -

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

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.

Thomas Sowell -

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

Eric Hoffer -

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

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.

Cymbeline -

Plenty and peace breed cowards.

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.

Horace -

"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt."

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Aristotle -

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

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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

Martin Luther King, Jr -

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

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.