Timeless Wisdom

I like old quotes.  They teach us that wisdom is timeless and that there's nothing new under the sun.  Situations may change, but human nature does not.

"Health Care Reform" and Other Liberal Schemes

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    -- C.S. Lewis

 

Global Warming Scam
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
    -- H.L. Mencken