Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -

The way to crush the bourgeoisie [middle class] is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Napoleon Bonaparte -

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Thomas Sowell -

We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

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Who will be the first to stop clapping?

Peter Drucker -

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Theodore Dalrymple -

In the tattoo parlour, the customer is always wrong.

Eric Hoffer -

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

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.