Quotes of the Week(8/28/2022)
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
G. K. Chesterton
Links(8/21/2022)
Quotes of the Week(8/21/2022)
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
Links(8/14/2022)
Quotes of the Week(8/14/2022)
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)
The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Links(8/7/2022)
Quotes of the Week(8/7/2022)
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
Rand Paul
There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?
Rand Paul
Links(7/31/2022)
Quotes of the Week(7/31/2022)
There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
David Hume
It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.
David Hume