Category: Thought

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.*

Socialist policy is a permanent menace to the liberty and security of citizens, and cannot therefore be the policy of any government, the primary duty of which is to exact respect for internal and external security.

[C]apital does not increase automatically by means of compound interest, as Socialists are pleased to assert. . . .

[T]he moment you limit free speech, it’s not free speech.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?