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1. "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." ~ Milton Friedman
2. "Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it." ~ Milton Friedman
4. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." – Winston Churchill
5. "America reinforces its values and thus its security by being transparent about even the worst abuses of those values, not by hiding the evidence deep in a file drawer." ~ Federal District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein
6. "The Court is persuaded that a meaning of what is marriage that has endured in history for thousands of years, and prevails in a majority of states today, is not universally irrational." ~ Federal Judge Martin L.C. Feldman
7. "No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened." ~ C. S. Lewis
8. "Remember, when the other side is accusing you of playing politics on the most important issues, it may just be a sign that you’re the one with clearer vision." - Mike Needham
9. "Our national dialog should reflect the rich diversity of our free, pluralist society, and that diversity should be one of our greatest prides." ~ Ronald Reagan
10. "Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another." ~ Milton Friedman
11. "The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom." ~ Milton Friedman
12. "The thing Washington must now guard against is making every one so immensely wealthy that no one will be left to pay an income tax." ~ "Senator Soaper" (column), July 29, 1933
13. "For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise." ~ Ben Franklin
14. "When you're finished changing, you're finished." ~ Ben Franklin
15. "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Ben Franklin
16. "Remember that by seeking the impossible you may justly be denied the possible." ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (in Don Quixote)
17. "The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy." ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
18. "Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary co-operation of individuals—the technique of the market place." ~ Milton Friedman
19. "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
~ William Butler Yeats, in "The Second Coming"
20. "Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." - Paul Goodman
21. "He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
22. "The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many." - John Naisbitt
24. "Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~Charles Dickens
25. "These then are the basic roles of government in a free society: to provide a means whereby we can modify the rules, to mediate differences among us on the meaning of the rules, and to enforce compliance with the rules on the part of those few who would otherwise not play the game." ~ Milton Friedman
26. "To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them." ~ Milton Friedman
27. "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." ~ Beverly Sills
28. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." - Bill Cosby
29. "The stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." ~ Bertrand Russell
30. "Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all." - Jean Genet
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