Quotes

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

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Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.

Fred Brooks

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer, English philosopher

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

A country gets the government it deserves.

Aristotle

Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot (otherwise) get agreement on the way ahead.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

Mae West

You can't build up a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Jean Gieraudoux

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

H L Mencken

Of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", Parker said: This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious.

Oswald Spengler

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious.

Oswald Spengler

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine