Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library. -- Winston
Churchill
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Friday, February 28, 2020
Fortune Quote #2768
Our difficulties come from the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into
which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own
intellectuals. -- Winston Churchill
which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own
intellectuals. -- Winston Churchill
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Fortune Quote #2767
Thoughtless, dilettante, or purblind worldlings sometimes ask us "What is
it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left
off fighting, you would soon find out." -- Winston Churchill
it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left
off fighting, you would soon find out." -- Winston Churchill
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Fortune Quote #2766
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy clamor of the
multitude are not fit to be ministers in times of difficulty. --
Winston Churchill
multitude are not fit to be ministers in times of difficulty. --
Winston Churchill
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Fortune Quote #2765
The independence of the judiciary from the executive is the prime defense
against tyranny. -- Winston Churchill
against tyranny. -- Winston Churchill
Monday, February 24, 2020
Fortune Quote #2764
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be
right. -- Winston Churchill
right. -- Winston Churchill
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Fortune Quote #2763
Official jargon can be used to destroy any kind of human contact or even
thought itself. -- Winston Churchill
thought itself. -- Winston Churchill
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Fortune Quote #2762
It is a very fine thing to refuse an invitation, but it is a good thing to
wait until you get it first. -- Winston Churchill
wait until you get it first. -- Winston Churchill
Friday, February 21, 2020
Fortune Quote #2761
We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by
logic. -- Winston Churchill
logic. -- Winston Churchill
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Fortune Quote #2760
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching
but at the same time a steady eye. -- Winston Churchill
but at the same time a steady eye. -- Winston Churchill
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Fortune Quote #2759
Moral force is unhappily no substitute for armed force, but it is a very
great reinforcement. -- Winston Churchill
great reinforcement. -- Winston Churchill
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Fortune Quote #2758
Do you know the difference between a policeman and a gangster? A policeman
complies with rules that are elaborated not by the policeman, but a certain
democratic community accepted by everyone. A gangster implements his own
rules. -- A Russian parliamentarian
complies with rules that are elaborated not by the policeman, but a certain
democratic community accepted by everyone. A gangster implements his own
rules. -- A Russian parliamentarian
Monday, February 17, 2020
Fortune Quote #2757
Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody
believes he got the biggest piece. -- Sherry Rothfield
believes he got the biggest piece. -- Sherry Rothfield
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Fortune Quote #2756
There is no mysterious diplomatic means to disarm a state which is not
willing to be disarmed. -- Margaret Thatcher
willing to be disarmed. -- Margaret Thatcher
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Fortune Quote #2755
Hell, there ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish
something. -- Thomas Edison
something. -- Thomas Edison
Friday, February 14, 2020
Fortune Quote #2754
If you do not expect it, you will not find the unexpected, for it is hard
to find and difficult. -- Heraclitus
to find and difficult. -- Heraclitus
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Fortune Quote #2753
The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and
modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in
wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who
suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market
economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than
those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing
for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who
never so intended it. -- Victor Davis Hanson
modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in
wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who
suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market
economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than
those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing
for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who
never so intended it. -- Victor Davis Hanson
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Fortune Quote #2752
No man in the nation desires peace more than I. But I prefer the troubled
ocean of war, demanded by the honor and independence of the country, with
all its calamities, and desolations, to the tranquil, putrescent pool of
ignominious peace. -- Henry Clay, 1810
ocean of war, demanded by the honor and independence of the country, with
all its calamities, and desolations, to the tranquil, putrescent pool of
ignominious peace. -- Henry Clay, 1810
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Fortune Quote #2751
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments. --
Frederick the Great
Frederick the Great
Monday, February 10, 2020
Fortune Quote #2750
The State would lose all meaning and would be failing in its duty as an
appointed minister of God ... if it failed to defend the bounds between
Right and Wrong by threat, and by the actual use, of the sword. --
Karl Barth
appointed minister of God ... if it failed to defend the bounds between
Right and Wrong by threat, and by the actual use, of the sword. --
Karl Barth
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Fortune Quote #2749
...every lord and prince is bound to protect his people and to preserve
the peace for them. That is his office; that is why he has the
sword. -- Martin Luther
the peace for them. That is his office; that is why he has the
sword. -- Martin Luther
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Fortune Quote #2748
All honor to Jefferson -- to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a
struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness,
forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document,
an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it
there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a
stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and
oppression. -- Abraham Lincoln, April 6, 1859
struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness,
forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document,
an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it
there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a
stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and
oppression. -- Abraham Lincoln, April 6, 1859
Friday, February 7, 2020
Fortune Quote #2747
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep
thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the
same act as the destroyer of liberty. -- Abraham Lincoln
thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the
same act as the destroyer of liberty. -- Abraham Lincoln
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Fortune Quote #2746
There is no cause for a quarrel between wealth and poverty, it is a
quarrel between methods of government and themes of government. --
Winston Churchill
quarrel between methods of government and themes of government. --
Winston Churchill
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Fortune Quote #2745
"I believe in God like I believe in the sun: not because I see it; but
because of it, I see everything!"
because of it, I see everything!"
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Fortune Quote #2744
Now there's a man with an open mind... you can feel the breeze from
here! -- Groucho Marx
here! -- Groucho Marx
Monday, February 3, 2020
Fortune Quote #2743
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of
democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than
for it. Objectively, the pacifist is pro-Nazi. -- George Orwell
(during World War II)
democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than
for it. Objectively, the pacifist is pro-Nazi. -- George Orwell
(during World War II)
Sunday, February 2, 2020
Fortune Quote #2742
It has long been my opinion... that the germ of dissolution of our federal
government is in the Constitution of our Federal Judiciary; an
irresponsible body ... working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a
little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a
thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the
States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. --
Thomas Jefferson
government is in the Constitution of our Federal Judiciary; an
irresponsible body ... working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a
little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a
thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the
States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. --
Thomas Jefferson
Saturday, February 1, 2020
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