by E.O. | Apr 19, 2026 | Quotes and Quips
“Haste makes waste.” – Unknown
by E.O. | Apr 18, 2026 | Quotes and Quips
“Did the “war” bring victory? On the one hand, today’s poor live vastly more prosperous lives by any material measure than the poor of the 1960s. Talk of citizens living over or under a “poverty line” is meaningless, Mr. Eberstadt shows, the de facto line having...
by E.O. | Apr 17, 2026 | Quotes and Quips
“This is a cheerful world as I see it from my garden under the shadows of my vines. But if I were to ascend some high mountain and look out over the wide lands, you know very well what I would see: brigands on the highway, pirates on the sea, armies fighting,...
by E.O. | Apr 16, 2026 | Quotes and Quips
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone...
by E.O. | Apr 15, 2026 | Quotes and Quips
“The economic record of slavery in general as a source of lasting economic development is unimpressive. Slavery was concentrated in the southern part of the United States and in the northern part of Brazil—and, in both cases, these remained the less prosperous and...
by E.O. | Apr 14, 2026 | Quotes and Quips
“There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much: Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.” – Cyrus H.K. Curtis
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