Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"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

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Veni, Vidi, Morituri Nolumus Mori

‘We Came, We Saw, He Died’ - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online
full short post



Two views of what happened yesterday. First, U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton:
“When the attack came yesterday Libyans stood and fought to defend our post. Some were wounded,” Clinton said. “Libyans carried Chris’ body to the hospital and helped rescue and lead other Americans to safety.”

Second, Libyan interior-ministry official Wanis al-Sharef:
He said Stevens, 52, and other officials were moved to a second building, deemed safer, after the initial wave of protests at the consulate. According to al-Sharef, members of the Libyan security team seem to have indicated to the protesters the building to which the American officials had been relocated, and that building then came under attack.
From the gruesome pictures, it’s not clear whether the Libyans “carrying Chris’ body to the hospital” are the same ones who fingered him to the mob.
In the last print edition of NR, I chanced to mention the Secretary of State’s analysis of Libya’s Arab Spring:
After Qaddafi, Hillary Clinton offered the following clunker of a sound bite: “We came, we saw, he died.” In reality, we’re gone, they saw, and the post-American world is being born.
Her silly witless crack rings a little differently after last night’s events.
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