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

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

DC is Getting a Real Statue

Great Quotes From American History, Marion Barry Edition

Eugene Gant  November 13, 2017

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Apropos of John Derbyshire’s post about the forthcoming statue of Marion Shepilov Barry, I recall the joke pinned to the bulletin board of a very large and prominent media organization in Washington, D.C., after the FBI filmed the leftist crook smoking crack with a prostitute.
It went something like this:

Great Quotes From American History:
  • “I cannot tell a lie” — George Washington
  • “Give me liberty or give me death” — Patrick Henry
  • “I have not yet begun to fight” — John Paul Jones
  • “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country” — Nathan Hale
  • “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” — David Farragut
  • “A house divided against itself cannot stand” — Abraham Lincoln
  • “Walk soft and carry a big stick” — Theodore Roosevelt
  • “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” — Franklin Roosevelt
  • “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” — John F. Kennedy
  • “The bitch set me up” — Marion Barry
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