Thought of the Day

“The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance.” –Paul Johnson

“A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.” –Bert Leston Taylor

“An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.” –Edwin Meese

“Think of your forefathers!  Think of your posterity!” –John Quincy Adams

“If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” –Samuel Adams

“Because ours is a consistent philosophy of government, we can be very clear:  We do not have a separate social agenda, a separate economic agenda, and a separate foreign agenda.  We have one agenda.  Just as surely as we seek to put our financial house in order and rebuild our nation’s defenses, so too we seek to protect the unborn, to end the manipulation of schoolchildren by utopian planners, and permit the acknowledgment of a Supreme Being in our classrooms just as we allow such acknowledgments in other public institutions.”  –Ronald Reagan

“What is more necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?  A wise a frugal government, . . . which shall leave [citizens] otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest.  That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.” –C.S. Lewis

“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”  –Margaret Thatcher

“I have learned that money is not the measure of a man, but it is often the means of finding out how small he is.” –Oswald J. Smith