 Punishment, limping in one leg, patiently follows every criminal
George Santayana
Volume Five of "The Life of Reason"
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Speaker, 12/15/1900
Your economic security has been put at risk by the greed of Wall Street. ... My opponent's only solutions are talk and taxes. I'll reform Wall Street and fix Washington.
Senator John McCain, R-Arizona
John McCain, 2008 Campaign Ad (from: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/campaign.wrap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21
A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.
Jean-François Revel
There is no advantage to putting out a mistruth.
Bob Schieffer
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/09/16/midmorning2/
When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
London Daily News
I certainly don't fault Senator McCain for these problems, but I do fault the economic philosophy he subscribes to.
Barack H. Obama
Obama explaining collapse of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch; in news article: "Obama says McCain is running dishonest campaign"
Reason demanded, Choice directed, and Courage sustained.
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Videos/0093.shtml#9
If your life is built on pessimism, you are not an Objectivist. If you hold the majority of humanity in contempt, you are not an Objectivist. If you have become so jaded that your sanction of a person or concept requires perfection, you are not an Objectivist.
George Cordero
If plan A isn't working, it is good to have a plan B. I suspect Objectivism could use a good plan B.
Jay Abbott
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/GeneralForum/1292_1.shtml#35
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin
Erik
Only if democracy eventually prevails in Pyongyang and Tehran can the West breathe easy.
Max Boot
http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/boot.html
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit
So Bob Barr's claim to fame now is that he barely beat an anarchist who defended the legality of child pornography. Barr may have lent the Libertarian Party his credibility, but the Libertarian Party has lent Barr its insanity.
FreeCololrado.com
http://www.freecolorado.com/2008/06/barr-beats-anarchist.html
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
I can just see [Ariana Huffington], face knotted up in anger and determination, busily duct-taping McCain and Bush together like some three-legged potato sack racer. "Stand still, damn it! You are staying fastened together till Obama gets a chance to win this race!" But Bush isn't running we say, and she says, "He is now! What do you think I'm doing with this tape?"
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/GeneralForum/1283.shtml#11
We laugh at the buffoon Chavez but at least he nationalizes the profitable enterprises.
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2140.shtml#4
Watching [Sarah Palin], everyone can say to himself, somewhere in his subconscious, "The best within me is like her (even if not as successful, or powerful, or whatever) and as long as I'm being honest and standing up for my values I too am a hero (even if on a smaller scale)."
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2137_4.shtml#96
What I think is going on, at least in part, with the Palin phenomenon is that a large portion of the population is fed up to the teeth with political correctness and Nanny regulations. These go from helmet laws to trans-fat bans to global warming hysteria and spotted owl environmentalists and everything in between. So when it is said that her goal in life is to kill caribou it's a throw-it-in-your-face cry of 'enough already' to the latte-sipping solipsistic city-dwelling sissies who don't know how to do anything practical. Many of rural Americans do know how to change their own oil, shoot varmints, cook an apple pie and build a fence and they're finally having their say.
Paul Hibbert
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2137_4.shtml#95
Jurisdiction is a moral concept applicable only to legitimate nations, nations which respect the individual civil liberties of their populace. We have no jurisdiction to apprehend a criminal in France, France is a free nation. Iran is a non free nation, as such, we do not need jurisdictional approval from whatever murderous theocratic tyrants happens to be oppressing the populace this year in order to act in our own long term rational self interest, either by removing that dictator from power or apprehending a terrorist residing in that nation.
Michael F Dickey
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Blogs/0039.shtml#16
So remember, the only way to waste your vote is to vote!
Penn Jillette
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/02/jillette.presidency/index.html
This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word 'victory' except when he's talking about his own campaign.
Sarah Palin
RNC Acceptance Speech
Without liberty, all we have are the leeches and looters fighting over the spoils that the victims are required to produce. This rotten system of redistribution must end. And it will, because victims of authoritarian rule eventually quit being victimized. War and domestic violence always complicate matters once the moral defense of individual rights is rejected.
Ron Paul
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=432
I don't believe in the 'Sky Bully.'
Joss Whedon
wikipedia
Liberals objecting to learning by yourself is just like Munchausen's by proxy — they need you to appreciate them and they need the attention.
Dennis Miller
Comedy Central
“Michigan’s Senators and Congressmen argue that an auto industry bailout would be another form of economic ‘stimulus,’" explains Barr. "We can’t afford more of this sort of ‘stimulus.’"
Bob Barr
http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/no-auto-industry-bailout-says-bob-barr
Every four years, we suddenly discover that the only people worth noticing or mentioning in the United States are those who are ill, or unemployed, or uninsured, or underpaid, or homeless, or some combination of the above. Bill and Hillary Clinton went on about these unprotected and wretched millions on two successive nights last week, apparently never reflecting that some of them at least must have been alive and suffering under the two Clinton administrations. How can a thinking person sit still and listen to such piffle, let alone get up and wave their arms about when they hear it again and again?
Christopher Hitchens
Fighting Words
For over two decades, [McCain has] subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy — give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.
Barack H. Obama
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080830/pl_politico/12964
I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office. I don't fit the typical pedigree.
Barack H. Obama
2008 Convention Acceptance Speech
A perfect world: Forbid voluntary euthanasia to people in the final stage of incurable illness because life is sacred and untouchable, but touch and desecrate the life of thousands and millions of healthy, capable people by sending them to war, where they will be killed or maimed, to then subject the on purpose produced disabled to the prohibition of applying voluntary euthanasia.
Manfred F. Schieder (1937 - )
... the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper. That's the promise we need to keep.
Barack H. Obama
Nomination Speech at the 2008 DNC
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_orwell.html
The recent death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn should make us recall what he said when he was awarded the Nobel Prize: "The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles." What would a Barack Obama presidency mean, other than more concessions and broader smiles, while Iran goes nuclear?
Thomas Sowell
RealClearPolitics
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian
Frank Herbert
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/frank_herbert/
"As cruel geography and the selfish designs of the American Founding Fathers would have it, Europeans don't get to choose the US president."
Gerard Baker
London Times
My observation, and not only mine, has been that people go in for relativism, agnosticism or solipsism when they don't have a case. Stephen Hicks is one of several who've noted that when socialists got to that point they called it postmodernism.
Peter Reidy
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Dissent/0195_1.shtml#30
Q. What do you think of the Libertarian Party? AR: I’d rather vote for Bob Hope, the Marx Brothers, or Jerry Lewis. I don’t think they’re as funny as Professor Hospers and the Libertarian Party. If, at a time like this, John Hospers takes ten votes away from Nixon (which I doubt he’ll do), it would be a moral crime. I don’t care about Nixon, and I care even less about Hospers. But this is no time to engage in publicity seeking, which all these crank political parties are doing. If you want to spread your ideas, do it through education. But don’t run for President—or even dogcatcher—if you’re going to help McGovern.
Ayn Rand
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2126_2.shtml#52
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value--zero.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/allport/allport10.html
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
http://www.strike-the-root.com/
A recurring head-in-the-sandism of isolationists is the premise that every threat is best dealt with by ‘leaving it alone in its cage.’ The unstated premise is that the dog can’t or won’t get out, and the only way to get hurt is by mucking in his business. Of course, the dog can get out. The only question is: Should we let him see us picking up a big stick, or stringing up our sneakers?
Jon Letendre
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2128.shtml#12
Socialism is the longest and most painful path from Capitalism to Capitalism.
Robert Littell
If McCain has appeared "presidential" in this crisis, by contrast, it is because he has provided real moral leadership when no one else was doing it—and his statements of encouragement to Georgia may well have changed the course of events for the better. I am no fan of McCain, and I fought vigorously against his nomination by the Republican Party. But if anything can make me vote for the bastard, this will be it.
Robert Tracinski
TIA Daily
Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw
Michael has his goals and I have mine... I don't think anyone should get in the way of what I want. I'm not going to feel bad if I go out and race my heart out and end up winning.
Ian Crocker
Washington Post: August 14, 2008
Those who preach the virtue of sacrifice know full well that sacrifices require givers and takers. THEY intend to be the takers.
Dr. Michael Hurd
Cheaters Never Prosper
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Frank Herbert
Philosophical principles are no substitute for thinking, yet many Objectivists act as if they were.
Nathaniel Branden
wikipedia
War is about killing. Killing people. It's not about making friends - with bullets.
Ralph Peters
Book TV
Contrary to Neil Young, the Aztecs were not flower children.
Ralph Peters
Book TV
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