Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
23 Jul, 2010
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
14 Jul, 2010
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
02 Jul, 2010
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don’t know
17 Jun, 2010
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee — that will do them in.
28 May, 2010
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
07 May, 2010
Mulligan does have an alternative account of the current recession. He thinks it was caused primarily by distortions in the labor market, namely three successive increases in the minimum wage and a mortgage modification program that was associated with an marginal tax rate of over 100%.
23 Apr, 2010
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas.
19 Apr, 2010
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
13 Apr, 2010
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
25 Mar, 2010
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!