"What man or nation has ever become rich by holding out a begging bowl?"
-- Andrew Mwenda,
Ugandan libertarian journalist, on promoting free trade instead of foreign government aid to African countries



"In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."
--George Washington,
1st President
of the United States of America 1789-1797

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."
--Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President
of the United States of America 1981-1989

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
--Bob Shane

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" 
--Dr. Seuss

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects of the Constitution or Confederation; not from any want of honor or virtue, as much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
--John Adams,
2nd President of the United States of America 1797-1801

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."
--Elbert Hubbard

"The opportunity to learn is highest when you see things you don't understand."
--Ed Stone, CALTECH

"You cannot permanently help a man by doing for him what he can and should do for himself."
--Abraham Lincoln,
16th President
of the United States of America 1861-1865


"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause..." 
--Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States of America 1901-1909

"But why, some say, the moon? . . . And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
    We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon . . . and other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
--John F. Kennedy, 
35th President of the United States of America 1961-1963  in a speech delivered at Rice Stadium in Houston, TX on 9/12/62

"The best people are the ones that don't stop until the sale is made.  They never give up.  They don't quit."
--Donald Trump

"The only thing that matters is solving the problem.  Working together to solve the problem is less expensive for all in the long run instead of ignoring it and letting it fester."
--Christopher, Philosopher

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"Consider the uselessness of waste.  If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial, doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?  One man cannot summon the future. But one man can change the present. Be the captain of this enterprise. Find a logical reason and make it stick. Push till it gives. In every revolution, there is one man with a vision."
--James Tiberius Kirk,
Captain, USS Enterprise

"I'm just tryin' to play jazz, which is improvised music, and I'm tryin' to write the songs that I write and they express a certain point of view, a certain temperament, or how you wish that things could be."
--Mose Allison

"Music is a moral law.  It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything.  It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful."
--Plato

"These terrible conflicts are always presenting themselves to the Artist.  The eternal struggle between Art and Life is something fierce yes, something fierce."
--Thomas Gray, P.C.

"Where a choice is easy and also important therein lays the potential for evil or misfortune. Therefore, one usually does better to exercise care and conservatively consider the options."
--Christopher, Philosopher Axiom #1

"Is not can never be is, for is  is.  
Remember this always and you have the key to the universe."
--Christopher, Philosopher

 
"It doesn't matter how you do it.  It matters that you get it done."
--Glenn Hubbard
former Atlanta Braves 2nd Baseman & current infield coach