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Quote of the Day 8/21/09

Friday, August 21st, 2009

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 [...]

Quote of the Day 8/20/09

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

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 [...]

Quote of the Day 8/19/09

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper

Quote of the Day 8/18/09

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

How many times had those awful words – “I know what I’m doing” – been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? Christopher Buckley.

Quote of the Day 8/17/09

Monday, August 17th, 2009

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 [...]

Quote of the Day 8/16/09

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

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

Quote of the Day 8/15/09

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

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 8/14/09

Friday, August 14th, 2009

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 [...]