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 14, 2016

Answer: Socialist-Democrats Come to Overreaching Power

Never enough room or time for my books.
I read forty to fifty books a year, if only I had time for more. I have been a chronic reader since college. Fortunately for me, my university was experimenting with Oxford style methods of limited lecture, a shelf-full of book-study, then a verbal interview with the professor about that shelf-full of books I had to read. The best result from that course of study was the habit of always reading books.
The unintended consequence is my ubiquitous pile of books, everywhere. 
I have to praise Amazon here. They made it possible to find books I never dreamed of getting. I now hope to live long enough to get though half the books I now own. m/r
Daniel J. Flynn  September 9, 2016 

One in four Americans confesses to not reading a book in the last year. That’s up from one in five in the Pew survey taken just five years ago. In a Gallup poll from 1978, a year that began with Ted Nugent autographing an arm with a Bowie knife at a fan’s request and ended with Americans flooding movie theaters to watch Every Which Way But Loose, fewer than one in twelve copped to not reading a book.
It’s later than you think.
Anecdotal evidence of Americans devolving into foppish versions of Huck Finn’s father increasingly confront. Unlike the redneck paterfamilias, the new enemies of book learnin’ imagine themselves as too cutting edge for such antiquated pursuits. Stupid is the new smart.

The page retreated as screens advanced.

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