Manliest Man

...some sort of dishrag proposition, a wishy-washy, sissified sort of galoot, that lets everybody make a doormat out of him. Let me tell you, the manliest man is the man who will acknowledge Jesus Christ.

Billy Sunday (Evangelist)

War is...

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Trust

...a government that doesn't trust its citizens is a government that can't be trusted

Levi Mulkey (12/27/2010, He attributes the quote to someone somewhere that he once read)

Prohibitions & Statutes

The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people become ...
The greater the number of statutes, the greater the number of thieves and brigands.

Lao-tzu

Christmas

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm, former governor of Colorado

Wise Alternatives

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

~Abba Eban (Israeli diplomat, 1915-2002)