Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-04-01 Apr 1, 2004When in charge, ponder... When in trouble, delegate... When in doubt, mumble.~ Dr. Jim BorenWhen the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.~ Bertrand RussellIf we can ever make red tape nutritional, we can feed the world.~ Robert SchaeberleSocialism is after all, the Viagra of politics...~ Michael Pierce Mar 31, 2004Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.~ Ambrose BierceThe mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.~ Cullen HightowerAny one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonNow and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.~ Kin Hubbard Mar 30, 2004Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.~ Frank Gelett BurgessI'm a foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.~ Tallulah BankheadWe are all born mad. Some remain so.~ Samuel Beckett Mar 29, 2004Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered any decay or interruption -- no, for the Lie, as Virtue, as Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains. My complaint, simply concerns the decay of the art of lying. No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a noble art so prostituted. ... If this finest of the fine art arts had everywhere received the attention, encouragement, and conscientious practice and development which this club has devoted to it, I should not need to utter this lament, or cry a single tear. I do not say this to flatter. I say it in a spirit of just and appreciative recognition.~ Mark Twain Mar 26, 2004It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.~ Giordano BrunoIt is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.~ Friedrich August von HayekTruth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.~ William Cullen Bryant Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print