Government Size

“If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.” – Gerald Ford

Hadn’t Ought To Be

“If, of all the words of tongue and pen, the saddest are, ‘It might have been,’ more sad are these we daily see: ‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be!’” – Bret Harte

The Minister’s Problem

The minister thinks it his problem to smooth congregational feathers. Not so: truth soothes, but it also disturbs. The minister’s main business is truth. It is for the rest of us to be of even temper, thick of skin, and to know the difference between being offended...

Argument

It’s not important to be right at the beginning of an argument, but it is important to be more right when it concludes. – E.O.