Fortune Quote #3322

One of the ways of promoting the ideology of equality is by defining
various inequalities of performance out of existence. Thus cultural
relativism refuses to classify some societies as civilized and others as
backward or primitive. -- Thomas Sowell, "The Quest for Cosmic
Justice"

Fortune Quote #3321

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human
intelligence, imagination, and wonder. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3320

What kind of a nation we will be, what kind of a world we will live in,
whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine
by our actions and our choices. -- Richard Nixon

Fortune Quote #3319

We do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do not
accept the possibility of permanent slavery. Liberty will come to those
who love it. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3318

Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of our
ideals. Eventually, the call of freedom comes to every mind and every
soul. We do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do
not accept the possibility of permanent slavery. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3317

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for
yourself by looking out for your country. -- Calvin Coolidge

Fortune Quote #3316

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human
spirit and human dignity. -- Herbert Hoover

Fortune Quote #3315

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom,
intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. -- Dwight
Eisenhower

Fortune Quote #3314

We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is
right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on
Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the excercise
of free will unhampered by the state. -- George H.W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3313

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of
standing by their own convictions. -- James Garfield

Fortune Quote #3312

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts
for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be
proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have
neglected. -- Gerald Ford

Fortune Quote #3311

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it
today. -- Abraham Lincoln

Fortune Quote #3310

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an
individual and of nations alike. -- Theodore Roosevelt

Fortune Quote #3309

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve. And that is both honour
enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the
shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth. Be content. --
Aslan, "Prince Caspian" by C.S. Lewis

Fortune Quote #3308

The media are less a window on reality than a stage on which officials and
journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions. -- Paul
Weaver

Fortune Quote #3307

When the government creates some new program, nothing is easier than to
show whatever benefits that program produces.... But it is virtually
impossible to trace the taxes that paid for the program back to their
sources and to show the alternative uses of that same money that could have
been far more beneficial. -- Thomas Sowell

Fortune Quote #3306

There is much discussion of the haves and the have-nots, but very little
discussion of the doers and the do-nots, those who contribute and those who
merely take. -- Thomas Sowell

Fortune Quote #3305

...ideology... is an instrument of power; a defense mechanism against
information; a pretext for eluding moral constrains in doing or approving
evil with a clean conscience; and finally, a way of banning the criterion
of experience, that is, of completely eliminating or indefinitely
postponing the pragmatic criteria of success and failure. --
Jean-Francois Revel

Fortune Quote #3304

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a
Constitution, rather than inventing one, when we amend its provisions so
freely. -- Justice Antonin Scalia

Fortune Quote #3303

One of the more remarkable defenses of judicial activism is that courts
were "forced" to act because Congress, the president, or other authorities
and institutions "failed" to act. Only by arbitarily presuming that policy
X MUST be enacted can the fact that all institutions except one believed
otherwise be taken as a mandate for that single institution to impose
policy X anyway. -- Thomas Sowell

Fortune Quote #3302

...what the ratifiers understood themselves to be enacting must be taken
to be what the public of that time would have understood the words to
mean. It is important to be clear about this. The search is not for a
subjective intention. If someone found a letter from George Washington to
Martha telling her that what he meant by the power to lay taxes was not
what other people meant, that would not change our reading of the
Constitution in the slightest. -- Judge Robert H. Bork

Fortune Quote #3301

I am not at liberty to discuss the justice of the Act. -- Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fortune Quote #3300

When we know what the source of the law has said that it shall be, our
authority is at an end. -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fortune Quote #3299

[My job is] to see that the game is played according to the rules whether
I like them or not. -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fortune Quote #3298

It is with almost melancholy nostalgia that we recall how only five years
ago it was possible to sustain a judgment of conviction entered in such a
clear case of unquestionable guilt and to accomplish it without undue
strain. -- Justice Roy L. Herdon of the California Court of Appeal,
1974

Fortune Quote #3297

There is a fundamental difference between a time when the great English
jurist Coke cringed as King James threatened to beat him physically with
his own hands... and a world in which the Supreme Court of the United
States could order President Nixon to turn over evidence to a special
prosecutor.... Centuries of struggle, sacrifice, and bloodshed went into
creating the ideal of a government of laws superior to any ruler or
political organ. -- Thomas Sowell

Fortune Quote #3296

To say that a shoe shine boy earns "too little" or a surgeon "too much" is
to say that third parties should have the right to preempt the decisions of
those who elected to spend their money on shoe shines or surgery.
-- Thomas Sowell

Fortune Quote #3295

To say that "wealth is so unfairly distributed in America," as Ronald
Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United States
is not distributed AT ALL. People create it, earn it, save it, and spend
it. -- Thomas Sowell

Fortune Quote #3294

Many have argued that capitalism does not offer a satisfactory moral
message. But that is like saying that calculus does not contain
cabrohydrates, amino acids, or other essential nutrients. Everything fails
by irrevelant standards. -- Thomas Sowell

Fortune Quote #3293

Men have an all but incurable propensity to try to prejudge all the great
questions which interest them by stamping their prejudices on the
language. -- James Fitzjames Stephen