Wednesday's Quote

"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs, when he first appears he is a protector."

--Plato (429-347 BC)

Thursday's Quote

A job – a good, long-term, well-compensated job – represents the intersection of opportunity and commitment.  There must be a need for the employee’s labor, and a reason for the employer to begin what both parties hope will be a long relationship, which begins with a heavy investment in training.  Who is better suited to find these opportunities, and negotiate the terms of a sustainable commitment: a small group of politically insulated central planners in Washington, or millions of private-sector employers scattered across the nation, each focused on exploiting the opportunities they have discovered?
—John Hayward

Wednesday's Quote

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."

--American writer H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Thursday's Quote

"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."

--Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, 1774

Monday's Quote

"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?"

-- Andrew Ford

"We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. ... Only private industry in the last analysis can provide jobs with a future. ... The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before. ... In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

~ Ronald Reagan