Quotation Collection

There are always calls for the government to "do something" when things are going bad. Those who make such calls have almost never bothered to check out what actually happens when the government does something, as compared to what happens when the government does nothing. Thomas Sowell

• government

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell

• simplicity

I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes. Sara Teasdale

• contentment

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost. George Horace Lorimer

• education

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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. L. Neil Smith

• gun control