Category: Thought

Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you’re fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

All the good are friends of one another.

If our Money be gone, thank God, our Eyes are left; Sharpened by Experience and Adversities, we can see through Disguises, and will be no more amused with Moon-shine.

[T]he only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but — from what we can judge to-day — of any civilisation.