“A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.” W.E.B. Du Bois
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“Obama’s Immigration Crisis Math: $4,000,000,000 Needed for 50,000 illegal immigrant children = $80,000 each!
“At a guess, at least half of the bureaus and agencies in government regulate what no longer needs regulation.” Peter Drucker, 1966
“For bureaucrats, procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” Thomas Sowell
“You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100.” Woody Allen
“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I achieved the American Dream by moving most of my assets off shore.” Pepper…And Salt, WSJ
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” Jack Dempsey
“The difference between a boss and a leader is that a boss says, ‘Go’, but a leader says, ‘Let’s go’.” George Kelly
“Only invest in what you understand.” Warren Buffett “Buy what you know.” Peter Lynch
“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” Douglas MacArthur
“Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.” John Maynard Keynes
“If you think people are inherently good, get rid of the police for 24 hours – see what happens.” Sylvester Stallone
“Happiness is pretty simple – someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.” Rita Mae Brown
“You don’t know a woman until you’ve met her in court.” Norman Mailer
“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.” Harry S. Truman
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.” Zig Ziglar
“The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.” Walter P. Chrysler
“The only exact science known to man is hindsight.” John Reid
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.” Dr. George Crane
“Deliberation is the function of many; action is the function of one.” Charles de Gaulle
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill
“There are no victories at bargain prices.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Some guy said to me, ‘Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock ‘n’ roll?’ I said ‘You’d better check with Mick Jagger’.” Cher
“Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.” Winston Churchill
“Honor is a difficult concept, particularly for modern-day progressives. It is archaic, elusive, unquantifiable, profoundly personal, stubborn, indifferent to public opinion, beyond the grasp of economic incentives, social norms and government coercion.” Bret Stephens
“The main reason so many people believe The Great Depression was caused by excess speculation in the private sector, is that the free market has no press agents. The Government has a great many press agents, and, the Federal Reserve has a great many press agents. Unfortunately, this means they often have the ability to define history.” Milton Friedman
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” Milton Friedman
“Not looking stupid, in many cases, is more important than not being stupid.” Stanley Bing
“Only a fool would suppose an insurance company will simply donate part of its profits to fulfilling the Obama administration’s healthcare social engineering demands.” Ashton Ellis
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill
“Dividends don’t lie, but earnings sometimes do.” Nancy Tengler
“When good people run things, everyone is glad, but when the the ruler is bad, everyone groans.” Proverbs
“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is fear of failure.” Jack lemmon
“Take away the government grants and you’ll never get close to finding 97% (?) of scientists agreeing on the cause of climate change. We have always had climate change and always will. This is no new phenomenon.” Weldon Wilson
“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.” Joseph Roux
“No one can live happily who has regard for himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility.” Seneca
“It was naive of the 19th-century optimists to expect paradise from technology – and equally naive of the 20th-century pessimists to make technology the scapegoat for such old shortcomings as man’s blindness, cruelty, immaturity, greed, and sinful pride.” Peter Drucker
“No piece of legislation, no matter how well meaning, can end bigotry, racism, or other human weaknesses. These problems – human by definition – must and can only be solved finally by human beings – not government or laws.” D. Rumsfeld
“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.” John D. Rockefeller Jr.
“There’s a reason why in New York Harbor we have a Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.” Charles Krauthammer
“History, as we know, is always bias, because human beings have to be studied by other human beings, not by independent observers of another species.” Andres Henriksson
“My idea of a team is a whole lot of people doing what I tell them to do.” T-Shirt
“American democracy is founded on a common acceptance of our nation’s laws, even ones we don’t like.” Scott Davenport
“To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?” Chief Justice John Marshall
“Why does the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have a limo department with $80,000 per year drivers? Are there no taxis in Washington, D.C.? John Pearl
“The richest of the ironies about Obama’s foreign policy is this: the world that in his view wanted to be rid of American salience now longs for it.” Leon Wieseltier
“If you want to see the economy go wild, just cut all the regulations in Half.” Sam Zell
“You’re never as good on your best day as everyone thinks, and never as bad on your worst day as everyone thinks.” Kerry Packer
“Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do so that you can do what you really want to do.” John C. Maxwell
“Who, on the executive team or the board, has spoken to a customer recently?” James Champy
“Crisis doesn’t necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it.” John C. Maxwell
” Problems are things we can do something about. Facts are things we can do nothing about; therefore we do well not to worry about them.” John C. Maxwell
” Problems are things we can do something about. Facts are things we can do nothing about; therefore we do well not to worry about them.” John C. Maxwell
“I heard that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.” Johnny Carson
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and beginning all over.” Andre Gide
“The top 5% of the U.S. population does not receive 17% of the national income. They earn it. Welfare recipients receive their monies.” Tom Fleming
“One of the keys to investing successfully is properly anticipating your regret.” Daniel Kahneman
“It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax.” B.C. Forbes
“The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism.” Charles G. Koch
“Life is only precious because it ends, kid.” Rick Riordan
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