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Getting the Guns
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. -- William S. Burroughs
Military Service
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. -- John F. Kennedy
First Steps
Behind every step of humanity’s long climb from the cave to New York City, there is the man who took that step for the first time - the man who discovered how to make a fire or a wheel or an airplane or an electric light. -- Why Businessmen Need Philosophy ...
Absent Fathers
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. Anthony Edwards
Wisdom Attained
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
Great Artists are Rare
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck
Password Plaque
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. Clifford Stoll
Empty Vase
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Thomas Jefferson
Wizard of Oz?
Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative. Glenn Beck
A Lifetime Saved
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." Marcus Aurelias
Too much of a good thing
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” Mark Twain
Sands of Time
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. Hugo Black
Little Liars
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think. Hal Holbrook
You don't have to prove it!
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. Thomas Sowell
The Language of Politics
Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell
Generosity of a Liberal
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. G. Gordon Liddy
Great Truth Indeed
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill
Yugoslav Proverb
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
The Public Never Forgets
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. Eugene McCarthy
A Good Teacher's Motto
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
Handicapped Children
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein
The Good Wife
My advice to you is to get married; if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates
Man's Rights
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. Ayn Rand
Happiness Is
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. -- Benjamin Franklin
Educating the Ignorant
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but ...