FREEDOM
Individual rights are for humans; collective rights are for insects and other small-brained creatures, such as politicians and bureaucrats.
Disordered Liberty
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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
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I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, “We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!”
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
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To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
Abraham Lincoln
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Living in a free society is not free—there is always a cost to be paid, and often that cost is not cheap. Free individuals must always be prepared to confront those who would steal their freedom away.
Disordered Liberty
GOVERNMENT
Why is it that at a time when we sorely need bold action from intellectual giants, we find Washington populated largely with political pygmies?
Disordered Liberty
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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. they forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.
Frederic Bastiat
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Good intentions should never be allowed to trump fiscal responsibility.
Disordered Liberty
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There is no better measure of the viatality of a society than the number of choices it offers its people.
John Horgan
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If religion is the opiate of the masses, then socialism is the Viagra of the unproductive, and communism is the drug of choice for despots.
Disordered Liberty
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Modern liberalism is an inherently selfish philosophy, because as a liberal you are seeking to finance the pursuit of your dreams on my dime. As a libertarian, in order to pursue my dreams, all I ask of you is to kindly step aside and let me pass by.
Disordered Liberty
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington
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The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As the size of a government increases, the level of its accountability to its citizens incrementally decreases.
Disordered Liberty
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Grab the reigns of life and ride like hell.
Disordered Liberty
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There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think that it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
Warren Buffett
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
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Loyalty is highly overrated as a character trait. Far too often, actions based upon loyalty subsequently require apologies and are accompanied by remorse. Instead, simplify things by basing your actions upon honesty and integrity, and your journeys through life will be largely peaceful and guilt-free.
Disordered Liberty
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If your life sucks, it’s because you suck.
Larry Winget
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Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
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Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. . . . Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Timothy Ferriss
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Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life, I find.
John F. Kennedy
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Debt adds considerable risk, most often doesn’t bring prosperity, and isn’t used by wealthy people nearly as much as we are led to believe.
Dave Ramsey
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The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
Jostein Gaarder
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There’s always enough time if you spend it right.
Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
HUMOROUS
While it may be true that the early bird catches the worm, personally I prefer scrambled eggs and mimosas at about ten.
Disordered Liberty
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Oscar Wilde
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No sane man dances.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He hasn’t an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
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I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy “Dear Jack: Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.”
John F. Kennedy
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Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
