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

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Atheism should not be proselytized, it should be a private faith. Unfortunately most religions and atheists don't see it that way.

If Atheism vs. Religion are to be debated as matters of fact vs. faith, at least these gentlemen lend their fine articulate language and debating skills to the forum.

Sunday 28 November 2010

Tony Blair debates faith with writer Christopher Hitchens

Tony Blair was due to make the most extensive comments of his career on Friday regarding his personal Christian faith in a public debate in Toronto with the atheist writer Christopher Hitchens.

Mr Blair, who converted to Roman Catholicism after he stepped down as Prime Minister in 2007, was to address the question "Is religion a force for good or ill?" with Mr Hitchens, author of the best-selling God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

Mr Hitchens, 61, a former socialist who supported the Iraq war, is having chemotherapy for oesophageal cancer, and has indicated he believes he may not have long to live. He recently debated his brother, the conservative journalist Peter Hitchens, 59, in Washington on the subject: "Can Civilisation Survive Without God?"

Throughout his time in front-line British politics, Mr Blair was reluctant to discuss his faith, although it was known he regularly attended Catholic masses at the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Great Missenden, the nearest Catholic church to Chequers. In his recent autobiography, Mr Blair gave few details of his conversion to Catholicism but made clear that faith was a central force in his career. He described Peter Thomson, the Australian-born Anglican priest he met at Oxford, as "probably the most influential person" in his life.

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