Category: Quote O’ The Day

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans– anything except reason.
– Thomas Sowell

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
— Thomas Jefferson

“Wear none of thine own chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.”
– William Penn

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else’s opinion.
– Thomas Sowell

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI

For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph — a tumultuous parade.
In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him.
Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning — that all glory is fleeting.
– General George S. Patton

“The people are the only legitimate fountain of power.”
– James Madison

If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.
– Jeff Cooper

“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
—John Galsworthy

“Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction.”
— Ronald Reagan

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
– Thomas Sowell

“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.”
– Samuel Adams

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence — true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”
– George Washington

What do you call it when someone steals someone else’s money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else’s money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else’s money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.
– Thomas Sowell

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
— Robert Heinlein

“The power vested in the American courts of justice of pronouncing a statute to be unconstitutional forms one of the most powerful barriers that have ever been devised against the tyranny of political assemblies.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair

Sticks and stones may break my bones but hollow points expand on impact.
unattributed

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
—Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
-Thomas Sowell