“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
— Thomas Sowell

“Everybody has asked the question… ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and dis…[Read more]

“One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims.”
— Thomas Sowell

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without…[Read more]

“History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.”

History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes – Quote Investigator
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.”
— Karl Popper

“Until philosophers are kings, and the princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and power meet in one, cities will never cease from ill — no, nor the human race, as I believe — and then only will our state have a possibility of life, and see the light of day… The truth is, that the state in which the…[Read more]

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
— Nikola Tesla

“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
– Matthew 10:16

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that…[Read more]

Optimist: someone who tells you to cheer up when things are going his way.

“THAT’S ALL FOLKS” – inscription on Mel Blanc’s gravestone

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore… whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
― Sir Isaac Newton

“We are creating soils that aren’t fit for anything except holding a plant up.”
— Duncan Cameron, soil scientist

Grammar: The difference between feeling you’re nuts and feeling your nuts.

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.”
— Donna Naylor

“I never said most of the things I said.”
— Yogi Berra