Aphorisms


There's nothing so bad, that adding government can't make it worse. -- The Immigrant

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. -- Ronald Reagan

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Read the next two together:

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'Emergency'." -- Herbert Hoover

This is too good a crisis to waste. -- Rahm Emanuel

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Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Fredric Bastiat, French Economist (30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850)

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to another. -- François-Marie Arouet, a.k.a. Voltaire, (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778)

The problem with socialism is that, sooner or later, you run out of other people's money. -- Margaret Thatcher

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill

Sunday, July 18, 2010

#73: A Poem I Wrote in High School

I found this while culling accumulated household debris, and thought that it showed that even in the 1950s, I was already showing signs of contempt for liberalism.

The Rotten and the Mad

Nothing stands to evil
as conscience stands to good;
the mad and rotten act,
and act together,
in the earliest brotherhood.

And while the mad and rotten act,
the good pursue The Good;
with conscience and with time,
they trace a trembling line
between the good and bad.

But while they mull,
The fine placing of that line,
The only ones who act,
in fact,

are the rotten and the mad.
Posted by The Immigrant at 1:54 PM

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