Insecure People

“Anxious and insecure people tend to seek out powerful patrons and ideologies to which to conform in order to feel “safe.” When you have little faith in your own identity or drives, the desire to be subsumed and validated by the will of others is a powerful opiate.”
--Boriqua Gato

Ruin Life

“Don't try to ruin my life with lies, when your life can be ruined with the truth.”
--Gina Carano

Lofty Solitude

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Drunken Sailor

“It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.”
--Art Laffer

Seize the Moment

“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.”
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Art of Thankfulness

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
--Norman Vincent Peale

Activism

“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”
--Thomas Sowell

End Poverty

“If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.”
--Javier Milei

Liberal Understanding

“Liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.”
--Lenny Bruce

Subject to Sorrow

“You’re subject to sorrow, fear, jealousy, anger and inconsistency. That’s the real reason you should admit that you are not wise.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Concepts of Democracy

“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”
--Aung San Suu Kyi

Cannot or Will Not

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
--Mark Twain

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Opinions of Others

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Rare Fortune

“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
--Tacitus

An American

“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

Never Turn Your Back

“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”
--Hunter S. Thompson

Life Teaches

“Life is the best teacher of all, yet most of the time, life does not talk to you it just pushes you around.”
--Robert T. Kiyosaki

Your Dreams

“Every morning you have two choices; continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.”
--Carmelo Anthony

Encourage Not Nag

“People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.”
--Harvey Mackay

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Stands For

“A strong man stands for himself, a stronger man stands for others.”
--Unknown

Study History

“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.”
--Thomas Sowell

Fear is your Friend

“Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.”
--Timothy Ferriss

Venture To Do Something

“It is always the adventurers who accomplish great things.”
--Charles de Montesquieu

Kill them All

“Kill them all and let God sort them out.”
--Arnaud Amalric

Ready to Die for

“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
--Malcolm X

Encourage the Spirit

“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”
--Ovid

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Peaceful Reason

“Don’t ever think that the reason I am peaceful is because I have forgotten how to be violent.”
--Unknown

Rock Bottom

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
--J.K. Rowling

Believe Things

“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.”
--Thomas Sowell

Being Exceptional

“When being exceptional the one thing you will realize is inevitably you will be alone.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Dangerous Men

“Men who cannot control their emotions are dangerous.”
--Andrew Tate

Never by Accident

“Greatness needs luck, but it’s never by accident.”
--Unknown

Free Mind

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Live Forever

"The foolish man thinks he will live forever if he keeps away from fighting; but old age won't grant him a truce, even if the spears do.”
--Viking Proverb

Speak the Truth

“When it's uncomfortable, when it's unpopular, even when it's dangerous to speak the truth, is the precise time that the truth should be spoken.”
--Unknown

Problem of the World

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
--Bertrand Russell

Important Strategy

“In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Make Your Liberty Secure

“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
--Thomas Paine

Push Yourself

“Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. You might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal, you are somewhere you have never been.”
--Terry Crews

Intelligent Self

“The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.”
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

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Walk Alone

“The individual that sees truth may sometimes walk alone.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Walks Alone

“The man who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.”
--Francis Phillip Wernig

Truth, Justice and Humanity

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
--Malcolm X

No Constitutional Protection

“The Constitution cannot protect you if you do not protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.”
--Thomas Sowell

Use Solitude

“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.”
--Lao Tzu

Make Something Out of You

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”
--Muhammad Ali

Difficult Openings

“Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.”
--Myla Kabat-Zinn

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Utopian Thinking

“If your system of government relies upon the sagacity and ethics of the leaders who run it to keep you safe and free, you are engaging in utopian thinking, and are going to get the tyranny you deserve.”
--Boriqua Gato

To Live

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.”
--Oscar Wilde

Legislative Restraint

“The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means for providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements, which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened.”
--Alexander Hamilton

Strategy's Importance

“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Open or Closed Mind

“A question opens the mind. A statement closes the mind.”
--Robert Kiyosaki

Dangerous Combination

“A high IQ and low information is a very dangerous combination.”
--Thomas Sowell

Getting Somewhere

“The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.”
--Charles Schwab

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End Democracy

“Liberals are now telling us they plan to protect American democracy and that's the clearest possible sign that they intend to end it.”
--Tucker Carlson

Gain Compliance

“If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt tripped, threatened, paid, punished, and criminalized; if all of this is necessary to gain your compliance you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.”
--Ian Watson

Pressure to Change

“In a free society there is always pressure to change it and make people less free. Leaders either move to the right with fascism or move to the left with socialism. In both cases, these movements meet at a dystopian place called collectivism. Ultimately it is about subjugation and taking away individual rights, liberties and freedoms and handing them to an elite few.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Actively Avoiding

“The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.”
--Robin Sharma

Media's Power

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
--Malcolm X

Impediment to Action

“Our actions may be impeded but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Praise

“Praise, like sunlight, helps all things to grow.”
--Unknown

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Change the World

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
--Paulo Coelho

Fear Suffering

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
--Michel de Montaigne

Succes is Leased

“Success isn’t owned. It’s leased. And rent is due every day.”
--J. J. Watt

People Doubt You

“When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.”
--Scott Belsky

Hell is Emplty

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
--William Shakespeare

Evil Cannot Create

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.”
--J.R.R. Tolkien

Love Lives

“We live in this world when we love it.”
--Rabindranath Tagore

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Chop Wood

“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
--Henry Ford

Great Limitations

“The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.”
--Denis Waitley

Moral Decay

“Decay is when we no longer live in a world where a man is as good as his word, but instead one where you are as good as the lie you can get away with.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Too Small Goals

“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”
--Azim Premji

Art Against Negativity

“An entire sea of water cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world cannot put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”
--Goi Nasu

Argue Against Socialism

“The dispute between the market order and socialism is no less than a matter of survival. To follow socialist morality would destroy much of present humankind and impoverish much of the rest.”
--F. A. Hayek

Life's Rules

“Dance like nobody's watching, sing like nobody's listening, love like you've never been hurt, and live like it's heaven on earth.”
--Mark Twain

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First Amendment

“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
--William J. Brennan, Jr.

Real Masculinity

“Real masculinity is not dominating the weak; real masculinity is empowering the weak.”
--Anthony Gucciard

Place of Judgement

“Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand.”
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Morals Creation

“It is not our intellect that created our morals; rather, human interactions governed by our morals make possible the growth of reason and those capabilities associated with it.”
--F. A. Hayek

Liberty Takes Root

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. The checks he endeavors to give it, however warrantable by ancient usage, will, more than probably, kindle a flame which may not easily be extinguished.”
--George Washington

Understand the Universe

“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Minor Heroes

“Man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.”
--Victor Hugo

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Monsters Exist

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
--Primo Levi

Bought Votes

“As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom, and all our freedom, to be eroded away, bit by bit. Our children and grandchildren may yet come to see the Constitution as just some quaint words from the past that people once took seriously.”
--Thomas Sowell

Play a Clown

“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”
--Malcolm X

American Labor

“If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.”
--Abraham Lincoln

An Evil Man

“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”
--Unknown (misattributed to Sun Tzu)

Infinite Nothing

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
--William Shakespeare

Love's Beauty

“Love gives beauty to everything it touches.”
--Rabindranath Tagore

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Personified Nation

“The nation, like the State, is a personified concept. The nation has no life of its own apart from the individual, and is therefore not an end in itself. All life is individual life, in which alone the ultimate meaning is to be found.”
--Carl Jung

Never Dies

“Cattle die, kinsmen die; the self must also die. I know one thing which never dies; the reputation of each dead man.”
--Viking Proverb

Powerless

“Never make the mistake of believing you are powerless. No matter what happens, you still have control over your thoughts and actions.”
--Unknown

Exchanging Freedom

“Exchanging freedom for security is a mistake. Security always comes from strength not submission. Make yourself strong to keep yourself safe and free.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Fear Death

“It’s not that we fear death, it’s that we fear not living the life we want.”
--Naval Ravikant

Deny Freedom

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
--Abraham Lincoln

Forgiveness' Fragrance

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
--Mark Twain

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Thinks Himself Wise

“The only thing worse than a fool is a fool who thinks himself wise.”
--Jay Kristoff

Disciplined Lives

“Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.”
--Eliud Kipchoge

Constitutional Rights

“It does not matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the United States if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it does not matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power, if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences.”
--Thomas Sowell

Shoulders of Giants

“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”
--Isaac Newton

Stand Up For

“Because if you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.”
--Neil Gaiman

Truth Is What It Is

“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

A Gray Area

“Sometimes the difference between winning and losing or success and failure is that gray area of perseverance and will.”
--Howard Schultz

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Not Your Business

“If it is not your business, why do you care?”
--Irish Proverb

Saying Too Much

“Often there is regret for saying too much, and seldom regret for saying too little.”
--Viking Proverb

Revolutions Happen

“Revolutions always happen a little bit at a time, then all at once.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Greatest Fear

“I was set free because my greatest fear has been realized and I was still alive.”
--J.K. Rowling

Right as a Man

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
--Thomas Paine

Live as a Lion

“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
--Benito Mussolini

No Reason to Change

“Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.”
--Carlos Castaneda

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Record of Failure

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
--Thomas Sowell

Alpha Male

“The lion does not wait for the lioness' permission.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Love Me For What I Am

“I must be myself, I cannot break myself any longer for you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

You Need Enemies

“To be successful in business, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.”
--Christopher Ondaatje

Wheels of Justice

“The wheels of justice grind slow, but grind fine.”
--Sun Tzu

What Unites

“Look at what unites us and ignore the differences.”
--Chinese Proverb

Adjust Your Sails

“You can't do anything about the wind, but you can always adjust the sails.”
--Dr. Bob Chope

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An Honest Man

“All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are an honest man in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits. If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

One Good Reason

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
--Mary Frances Berry

Die to Preserve

“I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
--Alexander Hamilton

Class of Parasites

“No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.”
--Thomas Sowell

Not Real Happiness

“I have the impression of being herded towards a uniform kind of happiness, toward a kind of happiness that doesn't really make me happy, that I am being conned by the powers that be.”
--Michel Houellebecq

Go Bankrupt

“At first you go bankrupt slowly, then all at once.”
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Best Friend

“The best way to have a good friend is to be one.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emotionally Led

“When you are an emotionally led person, you are more prone to chaos. It takes real stoicism to lead and be secure.”
--Andrew Tate

Mouse Traps

“Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free. The same is true with socialism.”
--Unknown

Empire Abroad

“America cannot have an empire abroad and a republic at home.”
--Mark Twain

Downfall of Man

“The downfall of man will not come because of the strength of our enemies, but because we forget why we stand our ground against impossible odds and lose sight on how vital the bonds of brotherhood are.”
--J.R.R. Tolkien

True Evil

“True evil starts by donning the outward trappings of good, but in its actions, doing the exact opposite.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Intellectual Opium

“Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.”
--Edmund Wilson

Dare Mightily

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

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Collectivist Systems

“With collectivist systems, the individual has always been a victim, twisted against him-or-her-self and commanded to be unselfish in sacrificial service to some allegedly higher value called pharaoh or emperor or king or society or the state or the race or the proletariat or the cosmos.”
--Nathaniel Branden

Any Power

“Any power that is only safe if the “right” people posses it is no power you want government anywhere near.”
--Malo Gato

Granting State Power

“Before granting any new power or prerogative to the State, first imagine that power wielded by the politician you hate most, because one day it will be.”
--Warren Meyer

Must Be Trouble

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
--Thomas Paine

Look Like Your Decisions

“In a capitalist society, your environment or conditions have nothing to do with your success. You are born looking like your parents, but when you die, you die looking like your decisions.”
--Unknown

Nobody is Responsible

“We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.”
--Thomas Sowell

Do Not Lie On Tracks

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Reality Manipulation

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
--Philip K. Dick

Better Late

“Better late than never.”
--Titus Livius (Livy)

Collectivism Paradox

“It is a strange paradox of our history that collectivism, which tells us that we are to regard ourselves, in effect, as sacrificial animals, has been generally accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for humankind. it is this collectivist morality that has served as justification for every dictatorship and every atrocity, past or present.”
--Nathaniel Branden

Most Stole Items

“The two most stolen items in the world are your freedom and your income.”
--Unknown

Become Wise

“Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.”
--Proverbs 13:20

Truth is a Lion

“The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.”
--Saint Augustine

Shared Warmth

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
--J. M. Barrie

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Cannot Endure Littleness

“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
--Earnest Becker

Diligent in Work

“Seest thou a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.”
--King Solomon

Liberty Lost

“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
--John Adams

Disinformation Program

“We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
--William Casey

Freedom Demanded

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power of Mind

“The power of mind to discard suffering, endure pain, and still think clearly, comes only from discipline.”
--Clif High

Fight Twice

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
--Margaret Thatcher

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How Many Conservatives

“The next time some academic tells you how important diversity is, ask how many conservatives there are in their sociology department.”
--Thomas Sowell

Fear Judgement

“Many fear judgement more than failure.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Taxes Use

“Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes.”
--Thomas Paine

Fate of the Indolent

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”
--John Philpot Curran

Children of the Devil

“For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
--John 8:44

Life is a Blessing

“Life is a blessing. It gives you a chance to be a net force of good in a fallen world.”
--Frank Stephen

Time And Effort

“Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.”
--André A. Jackson

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Free Expression

“The only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.”
--Christopher Hitchens

Absolute Lord

“Man is absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to nobody.”
--John Locke

Loyal Relastionships

“In relationships, a woman’s loyalty is tested when her man has nothing whereas a man’s loyalty is tested when he has everything.”
--Unknown

Morality Seperates

“Morality separates heroes from villains.”
--Jedi Proverb

Stupid Teachers

“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.”
--Thomas Sowell

Government's View

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
--Ronald Reagan

Power Play

“Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.”
--Woodrow Wilson

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Greedy Hand of Government

“We still feel the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.”
--Thomas Paine

Far Greater Lengths

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
--Dan Brown

To Be Free

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
--Nelson Mandela

Hate Speech

“Speech is hateful to those who hate the truth.”
--Unknown

Freedom Above All

“Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.”
--Peter Hitchens

Defeat Your Enemies

“Defeat your enemies in the fields before they reach your house.”
--Viking Proverb

Lavish Praise

“Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime.”
--Dale Carnegie

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Biggest Business Fear

“My biggest fear in business is customers with complaints who do not voice them.”
--Jeffry Fry

Purposeful Leader

“Great leaders are born out of the pursuit of a great purpose.”
--Roy Spence

Banking Issue

“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”
--Lord Acton

Calls for Unity

“How hypocritical are the calls for a unity that is a mask for the suppression of all opposition, how fatally lying or wrong are all beliefs that liberty is the peculiar attribute of any single individual or group, prince or democrat, nobles or people or multitude.”
--James Burnham

Two-Party System

“The two-party system forces Americans to choose at every election, be it local, state, and especially federal: Do I vote for the lesser of two evils or the evil of two lessers.”
--Jeffrey Lazar

The Welfare State

“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”
--Thomas Sowell

Love Triumphant

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
--H.L. Mencken

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Liberty's Duty

“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.“
--Lord Acton

Die for Freedom

“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
--Bob Marley

Feared of Loved

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
--Niccolo Machiavelli

Optimistic Life

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
--Lucille Ball

All Men Being Equals

“For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho’ himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.”
--Thomas Paine

America Forgot

“When did America forget that it’s America?”
--Natan Sharansky

Lose Yourself

“Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”
--Henry Miller

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Fair Share

“What exactly is your fair share of what someone else has worked for?”
--Thomas Sowell

Freedom of Speech

“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”
--George Orwell

Unequal Relationship

“However democratic may be their feelings and their intentions, once a politician achieves the elevation of office they can only view society in the same ways a schoolmaster views his pupils, and between pupils and masters equality cannot exist. On one side there is the feeling of a superiority that is inevitably provoked by a position of superiority; on the other side, there is a sense of inferiority which follows from the superiority of the teacher.”
--Mikhail Bakunin

Persuasion Tool

“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
--Zig Ziglar

Pervading Evil

“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”
--Lord Acton

Never Trust a Friend

"Never trust a friend who is silent about your flaws.”
--Pythagoras

Look or See

“The world is not what you look at, but what you see.”
--Henry David Thoreau

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Watch Your Money

“Three groups spend other people's money: Children, Thieves, and Politicians. All three need supervision.”
--Dick Army

Recognize Evil

“Where you recognize evil, speak out against it, and give no truces to your enemies.”
--Viking Proverb

Only Proof

“Proof, rather than argument.”
--Japanese Proverb

Genius Inspired

“Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.”
--Victor Hugo

Align Fears & Desires

“For life to be really fun, what you fear should line up with what you desire.”
--Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Courage against Evil

“In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.”
--Natan Sharansky

Shared Success

“Success unshared is failure.”
--John Paul Dejoria

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Viral Goodwill

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The First Link

“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we're all damaged.”
--Jeri Taylor

Presence of Fear

“The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.”
--Max Lucado

Signs of our Times

“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”
--Thomas Sowell

Life is Short

“Even when days and months are long, life is short.”
--Japanese Proverb

Call me Rebel

“Let them call me a rebel and welcome it. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.”
--Thomas Paine

Use What You Got

“We do not need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.”
--Basil S. Walsh

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Women Matter

“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
--Aristotle Onassis

Fools' Feast

“Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.”
--Benjamin Franklin

A Free Society

“Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.”
--Natan Sharansky

Risk Taker

“If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.”
--Ray Kroc

Good Laws

“The best way to educate a son on ethical conduct is to make him a citizen of a state with good laws.”
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Success of Liberty

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
--John F. Kennedy

The First Step

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
--Lao Tzu

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Constantly Looking Forward

“I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.”
--Gordon Ramsay

Ill Tempered Man

“An ill tempered, unhappy man ridicules all he hears, makes fun of others, refusing always to see the faults in himself.”
--Viking Proverb

Society's Existence

“Society does not exist apart from the thoughts and actions of people. It does not have interests and does not aim at anything. The same is valid for all other collectives.”
--Ludwig von Mises

Heavier Troubles

“How does it help to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom of Expression

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”
--Noam Chomsky

A Determined Soul

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Afraid of Life

“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”
--James Bymes

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Eyes of a Child

“Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.”
--Ron Wild

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Solely by Risking

“It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained.”
--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

No Pillow

“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”
--French Proverb

No Myths

“Without myth every culture loses its healthy creative natural power.”
--Nietzsche

Train Not In Vain

“Take all the training you can get; one good idea is all you need to save yourself years of hard work.”
--Brian Tracy

Dog Won't Come

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
--Woodrow Wilson

Physically Attractive

“Men need not be physically attractive if they have a lot of money.”
--Unknown

Fool Proof

“Arguing with a fool proves there are two.”
--Doris M. Smith

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Progressive Propaganda

“The purpose of progressive propaganda is not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponds to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.”
--Theodore Dalrymple

Mistaken Identity

“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”
--Thomas Sowell

Behavior Spectrum

“When you say a right or wrong behavior is on a spectrum, you are simply trying to make excuses for bad behavior.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Path to Evil

“The path to evil may bring great power, but not loyalty.”
--Jedi Proverb

Birthday of Eternity

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Different from Law

“When truth and fairness are different from what is law, better it is to follow truth and fairness.”
--Viking Proverb

Obvious Lies

“To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. If you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
--Theodore Dalrymple

Basic Human Freedoms

“Every law that curbs my basic human freedom; every lie about the things I care for; every crime committed against me by their politics; that what’s makes me get up and hound these bastards, and I’ll do that until the day I die.”
--Warren Ellis

Public Affairs

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
--Plato

Want to Punish

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.”
--Thomas Paine

Be a Leader

“To be a leader make a short list of all the things done to you that you abhorred. Do not do them to others, ever. Make another list of things done to you that you loved. Do them to others. always.”
--Dee Hock

Think Alike

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
--Walter Lippmann

Trend Spotter

“If you are not a trend setter, at least be able to exploit the ones you see.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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My Opinion

“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
--Christopher Hitchens

Only Retribution

“For some offenses, there is only retribution.”
--Dennis R. Miller

Winners Focus

“Winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners.”
--Unknown

Self Development

“People need to understand that true happiness comes from self development not self indulgence.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Political Freedom

“There is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.”
--Rollo May

Eccentricity

“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”
--Edith Sitwell

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Uneducated People

“Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.”
--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel