Fortune Quote #3054

Never fight an inanimate object. -- P.J. O'Rourke

Fortune Quote #3053

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society.
If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people
for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of
power. -- P.J. O'Rourke

Fortune Quote #3052

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter,
taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are
the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and
prove it. -- P.J. O'Rourke

Fortune Quote #3051

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys
to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke

Fortune Quote #3050

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any
catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is
still there. -- P.J. O'Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Fortune Quote #3049

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to
be bought and sold are legislators. -- P.J. O'Rourke

Fortune Quote #3048

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a
fool trusts either of them. -- P.J. O'Rourke

Fortune Quote #3047

Getting facts right is a fundamental requirement of morality. --
P.J. O'Rourke

Fortune Quote #3046

They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream
no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and
drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it
comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more
and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head. -- Henry
David Thoreau

Fortune Quote #3045

As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body, just as
boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite,
will abuse his dog. -- Henry David Thoreau