General Smedley D. Butler
- Three Steps
To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.
Thomas Sowell
- The first lesson of economics
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Smedley Butler
- The Privilege
Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.
Smedley Butler
- The solution
War is a racket. It always has been. A few profit, and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.
The Princess Bride
- The to-do list
Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.
Joel Salatin
- Salvation
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse; we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.
Thomas Sowell
- Feelings, nothing but feelings...
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas Sowell
- Nickle and dimed to death
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas Sowell
- Choice
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Zeromorphine, OAF Nation
- The PISTOL CIRCUS
Mar 10: Just found out. We lost dudes in Florida. 7 of em. All hitters. My Team Leader who pulled me from the tall grass and denied my trip across the river, is dead. Mar 11: Why do we do it, the wives, the mothers, sons and daughters without daddy. Forever Gone. For what??? May 15: I'll tell you why... the LOVE of the PISTOL CIRCUS.
Ludwig Von Mises
- Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the market-place.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
Rosa Bonheur
Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on Earth!
Benjamin Franklin
- The man in the fog
This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.
Stanley "Tookie" Williams
Well, first and foremost, I'm innocent. And secondly, being allowed to live enables me to continue disseminating my positive message to youth and adults throughout this country and abroad. And you know, lastly, being able to live, it would allow me to inevitably prove my innocence.
nyapplecountry.com
- Honeycrisp Apple
Sometimes the name of an apple says it all. Honeycrisp apples are honey sweet (with a touch of tart) and amazingly crisp. Kids love the taste, and it's easy to see why this recent variety has continued to grow in popularity since its 1991 introduction in Minnesota. More Honeycrisp trees are being planted every year in New York to increase the annual harvest. Profile: complex, sweet-tart flavor, Juicy, and super-crisp yellow flesh.
Dalai Lama XIV
- Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together
Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or non-believing, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fear, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek.
Henry David Thoreau
- A different drummer - Walden
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Michael Collins
- In their own coin
There is no crime in detecting and destroying in wartime the spy and informer. They have destroyed without trial. I have paid them back in their own coin.
Padraig H. Pearse
- Mise Eire
I am Ireland: I am older than the Hag of Beara. Great my glory: I who bore brave Cuchulainn. Great my shame: My own children that sold their mother. Great my pain: My irreconcilable enemy who harrasses me continually. Great my sorrow: That crowd, in whom I placed my trust, decayed. I am Ireland: I am lonelier than the Hag of Beara.
