Thoughts
From La Bruyere
Even the best-intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them: there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
2016-10-24 at 15:10:10
From Sir Ernest Benn
When a man is on his own, an individual responsible for himself, he must earn a character--a personal character that is perhaps his first necessity. Others may then learn and imitate his qualities and capabilities. In a planned society he has no need of a character, for no such thing is wanted.
2016-10-21 at 15:19:25
From Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
2016-10-21 at 14:47:52
More From Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
2016-10-21 at 14:46:38
More From Friedrich A. Hayek
Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.
2016-10-21 at 14:45:00
From William Henry Chamberlin
A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively for benefits from outside.
2016-10-21 at 14:43:36
From James Rawley and Stephen Behrendt
By the time Christopher Columbus appeared in Lisbon in 1477 an Old World slave trade was thriving in the eastern Atlantic between West Africa, the Atlantic islands, and Europe. In his famous letter on his first voyage he informed Ferdinand and Isabella he could, with their help, give them "slaves, as many as they shall order." On his second voyage Columbus loaded five hundred Indian slaves aboard returning caravels. On the last leg of his voyage to Cadiz, "about two hundred of these Indians died," a passenger recorded, appending, "We cast them into the sea." In this manner the discoverer of the New World launched the transatlantic slave trade, at first in Indians and from west to east.
2016-10-15 at 18:38:26
From Cicero
They say that Lysander the Spartan, whom I have mentioned before, used to remark that Sparta was the most dignified home for old age; for that nowhere was more respect paid to years, nowhere was old age held in higher honour. Nay, the story is told of how when a man of advanced years came into the theatre at Athens when the games were going on, no place was given him anywhere in that large assembly by his own countrymen; but when he came near the Lacedæmonians, who as ambassadors had a fixed place assigned to them, they rose as one man out of respect for him, and gave the veteran a seat. When they were greeted with rounds of applause from the whole audience, one of them remarked: "The Athenians know what is right, but will not do it."
2016-10-15 at 18:35:26
From Andrew Zalucky
Politicians are fallible human beings. By foisting your hopes and dreams onto them, you make yourself a prisoner of their shortcomings. More importantly, by relying on the President to solve all questions of economics, foreign affairs, and private life, the entire country is at the mercy of his or her imperfections.
2016-09-30 at 13:42:02
Yet More From Cousin Lucky
As someone that has dealt with both good and bad police officers I need to stress here that police officers assigned to " high crime " areas are under massive stress from their superiors, from their unions, and from the general public!! Over time their personalities change and their attitudes grow cold!! The job is extremely difficult, and sometimes thankless!! There are however innocent people being killed by police officers and denying that there is a problem is not going to make it go away!! There are many problems within these United States that need attention; this is only one of them!!
2016-09-29 at 15:11:10
From Pascal Robert
Mr. Donald Trump effectively illustrates all of the United States ugly hypocrisies, contradictions, venal greed, and crass lust that is at the core of this Nations true identity!
2016-09-29 at 14:53:55
From Wayne Barrett
As long as Donald Trump makes it clear that he is gonna screw black people, he has got a core base that will never leave him!!
2016-09-29 at 14:55:40
From Walter Cronkite
The United States presidential debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become. Here is a means to present to the American people a rational exposition of the major issues that face the nation, and the alternate approaches to their solution. Yet the candidates participate only with the guarantee of a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.
2016-09-24 at 17:28:05
From Mark Twain
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
2016-09-24 at 01:23:26
Choose Your Own Death!!
It is up to the United States voters who will likely end the United States by electing Donald Trump as president; or the United States voters who will probably end the entire world by electing Hillary Clinton as president!!
2016-08-27 at 14:37:53