Something To Think About Archive

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.”

Dr Norman Vincent Peale said: “If you can believe it, you can achieve it.”

Spanish philosopher Baltasar Gracian advised us to “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”

Napolean said: Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.”

Even Democrat Rahm “Never let a crisis go to waste” Emmanuel sees the danger in Progressive Socialist “Bernie Bros,” as he calls them. His worry is more about winning future elections while our concern is for the future of a free and safe capitalist society, but nonetheless we agree with his concerns over their platform of defunding the police, open borders, abolishing prisons, and “free” everything for everyone.

Homer said: “Evil deeds never prosper.”

According to artist and Arctic explorer William Bradford, “All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulty.”

Writer, politician and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce claimed that “Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mounted.”

Historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s thoughts on American pioneer spirit still apply today. He wrote: “America’s contribution to the history of the human spirit has been due to this nation’s peculiar experience in extending its type of frontier into new regions.”

Fred Schwed is the author of the book “Where are the customers yachts?” a critique of Wall Street brokers. He says that “History does in a vague way repeat itself, but it does it slowly and ponderously, and with an infinite number of surprising variations.”

In a speech in Austin, Texas, Justice Clarence Thomas referred to Progressivism, the platform of Socialist Democrats, by saying that it “… seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence;” with its belief that “…our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a Constitution;” notes Justice Thomas.

It’s been said that “The wolf always shows up at the door unannounced.”

Cuban-born CEO of Coca-Cola Robert Goizueta believed that “The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivator, you’re down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you’re moving.”

Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant once noted that “If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then We did it. If anything goes real good, then You did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”