Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking. P.J. O’Rourke

Liberals never think that what they’re doing is wrong – they just haven’t done enough of it. Jim Quinn

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it. Margaret Thatcher

The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral. Federalist 11.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. Ayn Rand

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view. William F. Buckley, Jr.

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions. Anthony Daniels

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war. (Winston Churchill – spoken in the House of Commons to Neville Chamberlain regarding the Munich accords). One of the advantages to being a democrat is that there is no rear view mirror to clutter your vision.

America was a population matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so their fingers were being pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy. Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie OK, BHO is selling everyone on “worst economy since [...]

If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children. Thomas Sowell – Barbarians Inside the Gates Another thing that saddens me is how long it takes for our children to grow up. The response of “That’s just your opinion” that I referenced yesterday is a symptom of the childish [...]