 John McCain and Sarah Palin, they call this socialistic. Y'know, I don't know when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness. Y'know, the next thing I know, they're gonna find evidence of my communistic tendencies because I shared my toys in kindergarten -- cause I split my peanut butter and jelly sandwich with my friend in sixth grade.
Barack H. Obama
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/obama_a_vote_for_me_is_vote_fo.php
Don't blame businessmen for the moral failings of bureaucrats. That's what's always been done, and what has gotten us where we are today.
Edward D. Thompson
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/GeneralForum/1324.shtml#12
There is no truth on earth that I fear to be known.
Thomas Jefferson
Frank Herbert, The White Plague
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken
[Obama?] A man who, should he win the election and serve one term, will have been President of the United States longer than he has held any steady job.
David Warren
National Review
Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.
McCain Campaign today, on Obama’s Plan for Redistribution of Wealth
Poster on TexasDarlin blog
Palin's ignorance of the fruit fly is exceeded only by Obama's ignorance of economics, history, diplomacy, the American Constitution, the Bill of Rights, freedom, justice, common sense, and morality.
Barbara Branden
http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=6184&view=findpost&p=58851
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
"Good regulations are like extraterrestrials. There's this contingent of people who swear they exist, but as of yet no evidence has surfaced to confirm it. "
John Armaos
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/GeneralForum/1317.shtml#2
The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.
George Will
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102202891.html
Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.
Charles Krauthammer
RealClearPolitics
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
A man who has had sexual relations with an animal, such as a sheep, may not eat its meat. He would commit sin.
Ayatollah Khomeini
The Ayatollah's "Blue Book"
It's not just about tolerance; acceptance of same-sex marriage is now mandatory!
Author unknown
From a California campaign add for Proposition 8, which would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.
Let there be light! Let the dawn rise over heavens and earth! There can be no glory, no splendour, until the human being exists, the fully developed man!
The Popol Vuh
Father Francisco Ximenez's copy of the Mayan Codex, Newberry Library, Chicago
And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you—not financially to help him—we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right. … There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, “Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don’t know about that decision.” Because if you think the decision is sound when they’re made, which I believe you will when they’re made, they’re not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they’re popular, they’re probably not sound.
Sen. Joe Biden
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.
Brand Blanshard
The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard
Vote for Obama. McCain lacks the character and temperament to be President. And Palin is simply a disgrace. ... Obama is greatly overrated in my opinion, but the Obama-Biden ticket is not a capitulationist one, even if it does accept the support of the surrender faction, and it does show some signs of being able and willing to profit from experience.
Christopher Hitchens
http://www.slate.com/id/2202163/
When I’m president, I won’t meet unconditionally with the Castro brothers. The day is coming when Cuba will be free!
Senator John McCain, R-Arizona
Today, at Florida International University
War is the default natural state of man, whether vendetta or inter-tribal. This state of nature can also be called anarchy, a fact which so-called anarcho-capitalists evade. Political freedom exists only within a polity, and a polity arises only through effort. The polity must establish its sovereign autonomy and must maintain it, by war, when necessary. Only historically ignorant or spoiled children born in the modern West have had the luck to evade this truth. Wars of conquest, like that of England against Ireland, are evil and to be avoided. War itself is a necessity of every free man's existence.
Ted Keer
http://www.solopassion.com/node/1671
It isn't my thinking that went awry. It is your writing.
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2188.shtml#16
Social Security operates on a simple principle: You give your retirement money to politicians and they squander it on something else.
Harry Browne
Fail-Safe Investing
You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. "What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?" And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
David Mamet (Writing for character Charles Morse in movie: The Edge)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119051/
Companies that form the foundation of our financial markets are shrinking and disappearing practically overnight. Their insatiable appetite for risk has permeated all sectors of the financial services industry, and has spread beyond our shores.
Chris Dodd, Sen (D)
http://dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/4572
A hero is one who knows how to make a friend out of an opponent.
The Talmud
Adam Reed's Translation
It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two... And those who have not swords can still die upon them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Eowyn, Return of the King, p 264
You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don't you -- why don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you're afraid to.
Clarice Starling
The Silence of the Lambs
To be successful, a rat requires cunning, not genius.
Steve Wolfer
Corporate Bailout
The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre - the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken
Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Mark Twain
POVERTY is attracted to the one whose mind is favorable to it, as money is attracted to the one whose mind has been deliberately prepared to attract it, and through the same laws. POVERTY CONSCIOUSNESS WILL VOLUNTARILY SEIZE THE MIND WHICH IS NOT OCCUPIED WITH MONEY CONSCIOUSNESS.
Napoleon Hill
Think and grow rich
Consider that you too are a "governmentalist" just like all anarchists. You want men governed after all, just by your lights. An anarchist society is a governed society or it wouldn't exist. A true anarchist is a banished tribal member and he is alone.
Brant Gaede
Objectivist Living
You're right [Congressman Frank], I'm a dumb guy, and you... you are the brilliant guy that presided over the biggest financial collapse in history!
Bill O'Reilly
Fox News - O'Reilly Factor
It's not that I don't give a damn. It's just that I don't really care about the student evaluations.
Dr. Henry Tosi
University of Florida Outreach Engineering Management Program, Final Day of Organizational Behavior Course, December 8, 2007
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/J._R._R._Tolkien
The [$700 Billion Buyout] votes have been tallied. 228 NAY. 205 YEA. The Crap Sandwich goes down in flames.
Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/
In a rational society, Barney Franks would find himself walking down some dirt road, trying to find his way back home, wondering about what to do with his life and how to get the tar and feathers off of his miserable hide.
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Blogs/0043_1.shtml#21
Furthermore, the very speech we must be most careful to protect is that which is most onerous to us. Our natural inclination is to shut up the Other Side. The problem is, many days we are the other side.
Anonymous
"Editorial," The Free Lance-Star
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world
David Harrison Levi
Entertainment Worldwide
Do you see how a focus on human disfigurement -- a focus which doesn't include any attempt to fix or prevent it, but to just focus on it for the mere fact that it is there -- is immoral?
Edward D. Thompson
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/ObjectivismQ&A/0294.shtml#5
Crisis is the friend of the State.
John Stossel
http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel.html
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Frank Herbert
The Orange Catholic Bible
Despite corrections in the marketplace and instances of abuse, democratic capitalism is the best system ever devised. It has unleashed the talents and the productivity, and entrepreneurial spirit of our citizens. It has made this country the best place in the world to invest and do business. And it gives our economy the flexibility and resilience to absorb shocks, adjust, and bounce back.
George W. Bush
President's Address to the Nation, 24 Sep 2008
All your power to accomplish, your ability to be effective, make decisions, be happy, and to exert maximum personal control over your life, lies only in each SUCCESSION OF PRESENT MOMENTS.
Charles Givens
Russia is filthy rich? Sadly, a more appropriate description than you might think.
Jay Abbott
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/ArticleDiscussions/2038_2.shtml#40
Ever heard Hollywood liberals talk about suspected jihadists the way they talk of suspected GOP book banners?
Michelle Malkin
NY Post, 9/17/2008
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You say, "Never mind the theories - those are but academic exercises... " But there have been nothing but empty theories and foolish academic exercises to support the absurd claim that anarchy could ever work.
On the other hand, government is already working, and working extremely well in every area where it is aligned with individual rights. Go out and buy something - an ink cartridge for the computer printer, for example. Look at the chain of transactions protected by courts, laws, legislature, law enforcement, etc., that define the terms of valid contracts, property rights, and outlaw the fraud or initiation of force, or theft that could interfere with that. You can point out all the things that are wrong, like the taxes, or a limitation on importation, or requirements for a business license - and we would agree. But each of these can be diminished to the vanishing point until there is no complaint left except a claim that government itself is bad even if it no longer does ANYTHING bad. And there is nothing sensible in that!
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Quotes/1208.shtml#11
(I)f libertarianism could account for children and foreign policy, it would be the ideal political philosophy.
Jonah Goldberg
Liberal Fascism
And yet, as a result of Atlas -- just as a consequence of the telegraph, telephone, radio and television -- the world has changed. The voices of reason do speak up and are heard, if only to encourage each other. That, to me, was the singular benefit of Rand's works: the realization that standing alone does not mean being alone.
Michael Marotta
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Quotes/1208.shtml#7
We could keep arguing about when America should go to war, but something happened this week. We went broke. Now, war is just one of the things we will shortly no longer be able to afford.
Steve Wolfer
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