The Last Word

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

The possibility of particular mischiefs can never be viewed, by a well-informed mind, as a solid objection to a general principle which is claculated to avoid general mischief and to obtain general advantages.
—Alexander Hamilton

If I owned both Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.
—Philip Henry Sheridan

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
—George Bernard Shaw

There are terrible temptations which it requires strength and courage to yield to.
—Oscar Wilde

A feminist man is like a jumbo shrimp: Neither makes any sense.
—Cassandra Davis

Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
—Ross McDonald

Sacred cows make great hamburgers.
—Robert Reisner

I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
—George Jean Nathan

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
—William F. Buckley

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
—Calvin Coolidge

There's nothing wrong with the Democratic party that a depression wouldn't cure.
—Malcom S. Forbes

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
—Jefferson Davis

All men recognize the right of revolution: That is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government when its tyranny or its inefficiency is great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
—Milton Friedman

The basic cure for poverty is money.
—George A. Wiley

No parent was ever very comfortable with a child after it had reached twenty-five.
—Edgar Watson Howe

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
—H.L. Mencken

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe

Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
—Ambrose Pierce

Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in real life.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Practical politics consists in ignoring the facts.
—Henry Adams

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens—and then everybody disagrees.
—Boris Marshalov

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat benevolent people do.
-—George Bruce

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss; when he's in the Republican Party he's a leader.
—Harry Truman

If America does not lead the free world then the free world will have no leader.
—Anwar Sadat

I have at least as many complaints against capitalism as I do against the weather. But we must choose between feasible alternatives in this world and not between utopias.
—G. Warren Nutter

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