Something To Think About Archive

We’ve recently read that one of Eisenhower’s early biographers was “… struck by how Eisenhower never saw power as belonging to him. Instead, he treated it as something he was responsible for – but not entitled to.”

Remember that “No one is a failure who keeps trying.”

It’s been said that “Half a fact is a whole falsehood.”

James L. Phillips believed that “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

It’s been said that “In politics, friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.”

Environmentalist Bjorn Lomberg notes that despite the media claims of environmental destruction from “climate change” causing wildfires, both the U.S. and Canada are below their ten and five year averages respectively for acreage burned year to date. Wildfires are terrifying and massively destructive; but the fact remains that the recent spate of fires both here and throughout the west are either arson or lighting caused often in overgrown forests.  As to people setting fires, we don’t understand that or pretend to know what the answer is. But nature will be helped by the feds recent approval of more harvesting and thinning to reduce fuels in, and improve the health of, our national forests.

According to Samuel Johnson, “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

Voltaire wrote: “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hands of time.”

Screenwriter David Nicholls says: “Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.”

Author John Gordan notes that “Many on the left, unable to distinguish between wealth aggregation and wealth creation, want to tax wealth heavily, which would reduce the available capital needed to make the economy grow.”

According to entrepreneur and author Andy Kessler, “Socialism is the cool new way to get elected.” He calls socialism a “gateway drug.” Even Democrat Senator John Fetterman fears that they are “drifting firmly into communism.”

Unbelievable. That’s the only word that can describe Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth more than 100 times in a Senate hearing, despite the preemptive pardon given to him by Joe Biden’s auto pen. It’s bad enough that he was responsible for funding virus gain of function research in China of all places; then after essentially overseeing the national pandemic emergency had the gall to revel in his “explosive” national fame as he calls it in his personal diary on a government server where he also privately questioned his own recommendations to the public on dealing with the outbreak. No wonder trust in the government’s response is now so low.

John Knowles “You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.”

Eleanor Roosevelt believed that “No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.”