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

Monday, May 4, 2015

1865, May 4 - Outside Springfield, Illinois, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery

Behind the hearse was Lincoln's horse, "Old Bob", dressed smartly in mourning with a black blanket covering him. The horse had been used by Lincoln as he rode the law circuit in that part of Illinois, and had served Lincoln for more than ten years through the Illinois countryside.

Abraham Lincoln: 150 years later, hundreds retrace funeral procession | US news | The Guardian

Descendants of those who accompanied Lincoln’s coffin in 1865 join re-enactment in his hometown to the Old State Capitol, where he lay in state

Associated Press in Springfield, Illinois
Hundreds of people, including many in period costume, retraced the steps of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession on Saturday to kick off a weekend of events to meticulously re-enact the assassinated president’s final journey home, on the 150th anniversary of his burial.
Ranks of soldiers in Union blues and pallbearers, including several direct descendants of those who accompanied Lincoln’s coffin in 1865, walked from Springfield’s train station to the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln lay in state.
Drums pounded out a funeral march, costumed re-enactors sang the Star-Spangled Banner, and a man in a top hat with a black mourning sash trailing from it placed flowers on the replica coffin.
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