Thoughts for April 2014

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  1.  "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville

  2.  "There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing. But did they speak up? Did they stand up for what they believed? They did not. And you saw what happened. And if you believe that the same thing can't happen again, you are very wrong." - Dr. Ben Carson

  3.  "He that is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else." - Benjamin Franklin

  4.  "Here’s the great thing about the American dream: It’s not about equality of outcomes, it’s equality of opportunity. The great thing about the American dream is that circumstances of your birth don’t determine your outcomes as an adult." - Gov. Bobby Jindal

  5.  "We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their ramifications extended, their powers enlarged, and their sphere widened, until the whole system is top-heavy. We are drifting into dangerous and insidious paternalism, submerging the self-reliance of the citizen, and weakening the responsibility and stifling the initiative of the individual. We suffer not from too little legislation, but from too much. We need fewer enactments and more repeals." - Washington State Governor Roland H. Hartley, 1925

  6.  "Finding new sources of revenue is ever fraught with the danger of opening up new avenues of expenditure. In dealing with the tax question, our first task is to reduce the cost of conducting the public’s business, not to devise new ways and means of raising revenue to meet the mounting cost of government." - Washington State Governor Roland H. Hartley, 1925

  7.  "When you make the mistake of jumping to emotional conclusions and being factually incorrect, your cachet diminishes." - Stephen A. Smith (ESPN radio host and TV commentator) 28 Mar 2014

  8.  "History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies." - Alexis de Tocqueville

  9.  "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

10.  "The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect." - Alexis de Tocqueville

11.  "Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." — Cicero

12.  "This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: It's a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting." - Murray Rothbard

13.  "Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine

14.  "Cable news and the Internet have many things in common, one of which is that they are both populated by lots of shameless attention-seekers." - Andrew Kirell, MEDIAite, 11 Apr 2014

15.  "If you are going through hell, keep going." – Winston Churchill

16.  "A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is." - Joseph Addison

17.  "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." – Winston Churchill

18.  "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." – Winston Churchill

19.  "The morals and intelligence of a democratic people would be in as much danger as its commerce and industry if ever a government wholly usurped the place of private associations." - Alexis de Tocqueville

20.  "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa

21.  "Lost Ground can always be regained-lost time never!" - Franklin D. Roosevelt

22.  "Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it." - Philip K. Dick

23.  "Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus." : "But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained." - Virgil (c. 29 B.C.)

24.  "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.  "Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing." - Billy Graham

26.  "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare

27.  "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare

28.  "In effect the government has become primarily a massive money-transfer machine, taking $2.6 trillion from some and handing it back out to others." - John Merline, Investor’s Business Daily, 13 Apr 2014

29.  "Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going." - Tennessee Williams

30.  "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." – Winston Churchill