Nevermore, quoth the raven.
Edgar Allan Poe
I enjoy reading words of wisdom
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our leaders of today seem to forget about.
Norman Jones.
El PresidenteBe courteous to all, but intimate with few: and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington. It is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington. As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in reason, morality, and the natural fitness of things. Thomas Jefferson
Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. -- Thomas Jefferson The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. Thomas Jefferson. To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. -- Thomas Jefferson It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. -- Thomas Jefferson Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. -- Thomas Jefferson Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Andrew Jackson ***
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln *** I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Abraham Lincoln *** The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln *** I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. Abraham Lincoln *** My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. Abraham Lincoln *** With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and for his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Abraham Lincoln *** I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. Abraham Lincoln Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left (behind) by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln 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 or overthrow it. -- Abraham Lincoln. The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government, its functions do not include support of the people. Grover Cleveland It is better to be faithful than famous. -- Theodore Roosevelt Speak Softly, and carry a big stick. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. Dwight D. Eisenhower This country does not forget God or the soldier. Upon both we now depend. JFK |
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong. - Ronald Reagan Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. Ronald Reagan The most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Ronald Reagan. "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution. -- Bill Clinton One country, one constitution, one destiny. Daniel Webster The best thing Bill Clinton did for
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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. JFK "At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education." Lyndon B. Johnson |
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One thing every writer needs occasionally
is a good quote Fresh Courage Take"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." William Penn If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility 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
Give Me Liberty, or Give me
Death Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings "The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man." David Crockett No one becomes a saint in his sleep. Sterling W. Sill. We are not weak, if we make proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power... The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. -- Patrick Henry ART. X of New Hampshire State Constitution: Government being instituted for the common benefit; protection, and security of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted and public liberty manifestly endangered , and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people of right ought and may to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth? -- David Lloyd George I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale. If America lived up to its heritage its greatness would last forever." J.T. Hale |
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Political CurvesFleas can be taught nearly everything that a Congressman can. Mark Twain
Time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw "I believe there is something out there watching
us. *** These are the worst of days, a time when telling the truth is labeled "derogatory." Anon. *** In this world a man must be either anvil or
hammer. *** I'd rather be the hammer than the anvil.
*** "You name them. I'll shoot them." *** In every presidential campaign you hear the sweet words that sweeps candidates into power. But after the Oval Office is achieved all you hear is a cry for compromise and patience. Lin Stone *** The government needs to find better ways to spend its time and our money. Mike McLean, Richfield Minn. *** War is not the best way of settling differences; however, it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you. G.K. Chesterton *** “He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.” Shakespeare *** Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah's Ark. Ann Coulter. *** We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life. Richard Lamm. *** The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson. *** Where we once had a few big rules, now we need an encyclopedia of little rules. Chesterson. *** The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. Conor Cruise O'Brien *** Women should not be allowed to serve in the military. They are too vicious. Ann Coulter. *** When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children. Albert Shanker. *** You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. -- P.J O'Rourke *** I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. Charlie Chaplin *** I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. Lord Byron *** There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. Gilbert K. Chesterton *** In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot. -- Mark Twain *** Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income. -- Harry Browne *** Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened. -- Sir Winston Churchill *** To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them... -- George Mason *** If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. -- John Wayne *** The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. -- Jonathan Swift *** We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. -- Mikhail Gorbachev *** If we can't legislate what goes on in the bedroom, why can't I hide money from the IRS under my mattress? Ann Coulter. *** No life is of much value and every death is but a little loss. Clarence Darrow. *** Humans have rights under any and all conditions. KATHY KASTEN *** “If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill each other? … Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.” Mother Teresa. *** If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. Henry Clay *** The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries. It marks its victim, denounces it, and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. Henry Clay. |
Business MaximsA penny saved is a penny earned. Ben Franklin But do YOU know what a penny looks like? No cheating now. Click HERE and see if you can pass the test, spot the REAL penny in this series of common coins. *** Most people would succeed in small things if
they were not troubled with great ambitions. *** If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a man and a dog. Mark Twain *** If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst. Thomas Hardy *** “Free people don’t ‘exhaust’ resources. They create them.” Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. *** One should always play fairly *** When I agree to play by your rules,
*** If you want to make a lot of money without working your best bet is buying lottery tickets and crossing your fingers. Greg Hughes *** Eighty percent of the human resources department is transactional government compliance and vendor management. Brian Fayak *** Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. Ralph Waldo Emerson ***
*** We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau *** Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** The best thing I ever did for poor people is to not become one of them. J. Paul Getty *** The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. -- Booker T. Washington *** "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." Willa A. Foster *** The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson *** "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." - W B Yeats *** "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." George Washington Carver *** "There will always be a place for good quality content that stands out from the crowd." Steve Pavlina. *** The only way to stay ahead is to do the things you need to before you need to. Lin Stone *** "That's not short-term thinking. That's naive thinking." Jay L. Abraham. *** "Most businesses are trying to hit a home run every day in a new ball park." Jay L. Abraham. *** The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -- John W(illiam) Gardner *** Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. -- Stewart Brand *** Failure is more frequently from want of energy than from want of capital. Daniel Webster What is valuable is not new. What is new is not valuable. Daniel Webster *** "Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." Orison Swett Marden. *** Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2. -- Fred Blechman *** Wisdom says to have a year's supply of food and be free of debt. Most of us have a year's supply of debt and our pantries are free of food. Thomas S. Monson. *** Energy has always been the basis of cultural complexity and it always will be. The past clarifies potential paths to the future. One often-discussed path is cultural and economic simplicity and lower energy costs. This could come about through the "crash" that many fear -- a genuine collapse over a period of one or two generations, with much violence, starvation, and loss of population. The alternative is the "soft landing" that many people hope for - a voluntary change to solar energy and green fuels, energy-conserving technologies, and less overall consumption. This is a utopian alternative that, as suggested above, will come about only if severe, prolonged hardship in industrial nations makes it attractive, and if economic growth and consumerism can be removed from the realm of ideology. Joseph A. Tainter |
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Missy LaneousMy country, 'tis of thee, *** A Myth is as good as a Mile. John Archer *** A woman never is so tenacious of her rights as when she is in the wrong. Frederick Upham Adams *** We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** Into each life some rain must fall. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** The young may die, but the old must. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** Fame comes only when deserved and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** Well it has been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. Samuel Johnson *** A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Man has his will, -- but woman has her way. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Vulgar people can't be still. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** For of all sad words of
tongue or pen, *** Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. Hosea Ballou *** Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou *** I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather. John Burroughs *** it’s common knowledge, not common practice. David Carleton *** Woodman, spare that tree! *** Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** No sensible man ever made an apology. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** Money makes you feel better even if you don't like the stuff. Joe Louis. *** Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Give us the luxuries of life, and we shall dispense with its necessities. John Lothrop Motley *** *** -- it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. Washington Irving. *** He was a master engraver who fell in love with Jackson's face, but forgot a few important details. Sara Paretsky *** "There's so much pollution
in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no
place to put it all." *** The most comfortable place on earth is inside a rut that fits. Will Cook. *** Smooth waters never make a good sailor Norman Jones ***
If you are determined to be dumb you must decide to also be tough. Robert Johnson *** You can and you can't, *** "Gentlemen, today's game will be decided by four plays. Now, I don't know which plays those will be, so play every play like it's one of those four." Vince Lombardi *** A man in earnest finds
means, or, if he cannot find, creates them. *** Thoughts are mightier than armies. W.M. Paxton *** *** And there's always a flaw in a donkey's will. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass *** Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) A smile is the one curve
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer *** If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -- Alice Duer Miller *** The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. … Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. Emerson *** I run as if the track was made of egg shells. Jesse Owens *** Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. Reverend Larry Lorenzoni *** You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. Bob Hope *** If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. -- Dick Cavett *** "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." Robert A. Heinlein. *** The confused mind always says NO. Dan Lok *** Hush you huskies. Hush! Lin Stone *** “If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.” - Lyall Watson *** “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Anon *** A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann *** “A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.” - Erma Bombeck *** "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." George Burns. *** One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. Lady Nancy Astor *** Without music life would be a mistake -- Friedrich Nietzsche *** Loud laughter is the sign of a vacant mind. Charles A. Callis *** *** I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. -- Groucho Marx *** People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves. Goldsmith *** Illegitimi Non Carborundum |
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