Beware of self-appointed pillars. The Reverend Walter F Beckmann – Bishop Emeritus of North Atlantic District, WELS This one came by way of Mike Hatzung. Thank you, Mike. I am so glad that one of my friends in Pittsburgh convinced me to get onto Facebook. Because of that, I was able to reconnect with folks [...]
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power. Friedrich Hayek – The Constitution of Liberty I like this much better than that bit about absolute power corrupting…. Why? It’s simple. Please explain to me how exactly folks like Hitler and Stalin were corrupted by power. They weren’t. There is [...]
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper
How many times had those awful words – “I know what I’m doing” – been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? Christopher Buckley.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P.J. O’Rourke – A Parliament of Whores P.J. has written for a number of publications, including the National Lampoon and Rolling Stone. He can probably be best described by the title of one of his books – Republican Party [...]
The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. Michael Crichton
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Adam Smith.
Quote of the day: Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors…and miss. Robert A. Heinlein – Time Enough for Love Why this quote for the first quote of the day? At least part of it is that it correctly sums up my innate suspicion of government in general and [...]
