Notable Quotes
“The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep
and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.”
What I Saw In America,
— G.K. Chesterton
Author and Theologian
“A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.”
— Will Rogers
“A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.”
— P.J. O’Rourke
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes.
Halftimes take 12 minutes. This is not coincidence.”
— Erma Bombeck
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
— George Washington Carver
“Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.”
— Vince Lomdardi
“I was born on November 4, which is election day…
my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.”
— Will Rogers
From Weekly Articles
The world is a dangerous place to live — not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
— Albert Einstein
“All pro athletes are bilingual. They speak English and profanity.”
— Gordy Howe
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.”
— Thomas Sowell
“Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions
— and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business.
Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.”
— Thomas Sowell
“Does it disturb anyone else that ‘The Los Angeles Angels’ baseball team translates directly to ‘The The Angels Angels’ ?”
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes in to us at midnight very clean.
It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and hopes we’ve learnt something from yesterday.
— John Wayne
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives.
The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes.
The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“We know what works: Freedom works. We know what’s right: Freedom is right.
We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth:
through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.”
— George H. W. Bush
“When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.”
— G.K. Chesterton