You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway. Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart, 2000, p 600
I heartily acccept the motto — ‘That government is best which governs least’: …
I heartily acccept the motto — ‘That government is best which governs least’: and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe — ‘That government is best which governs not at all’: and when men are really for it that is the kind of government that they will have. Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it. Daniel Webster …
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.
Daniel Webster
Toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847. Vol. ii. p. 394. 1782-1852
Taking money from some, extracting it by force, to give to others …
Taking money from some, extracting it by force, to give to others is just plain theft. David Kelley
Executive Director Institute for Objectivist Studies, Investor’s Business Daily, April 1998
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. …
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reasonof the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessonsof wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Phyllis Bottome
1884-1963, Novelist and Lecturer
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; …
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. Ayn Rand
Philosophy: Who Needs It
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is …
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books. Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006)
When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it.No …
When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it.No taxes no debt, women did all the work White man thought he could improve on a system like this. Old Cherokee Saying
Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to …
Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny. Barry Goldwater
U.S. Senator, 1964 (1909-1998)
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be …
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881