Daily Quote: Truman
I am just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, whose anxious to be right. ~Harry Truman
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Archive for the month “December, 2011”
Daily Quote: Updike
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation… ~John Updike
Daily Quote: Mill
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people–less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their own character. ~John Stuart Mill
Daily Quote: Sowell
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. ~Thomas Sowell
Daily Quote: Franklin
No nation was ever ruined by trade. ~Benjamin Franklin
Daily Quote: Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
Daily Quote: Fried
The greatest enemy of liberty has always been some vision of the good. It might be the good of community engaged for the glory of a city, nation, race, or party. ~Charles Fried
Daily Quote: Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ~Mark Twain
Daily Quote: Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daily Quote: Director
Everybody tends to magnify the importance of his own occupation and to minimize that of his neighbor. Intellectuals are engaged in the pursuit of truth, while others are merely engaged in earning a livelihood… It may be asserted with some confidence that among intellectuals there is an inverse correlation between the appreciation of the merits of civil liberty – including freedom of speech – and the merits of economic freedom. ~Aaron Director
