The Obama doctrine: Those who start by saying: ‘It is selfish to pursue your own wishes, you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others’—end up by saying: ‘It is selfish to uphold your conictions, you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.’ — Atlas Shrugged
We know but few men, a great many coats and breeches. Dress a scarecrow in your last shift, you standing shiftless by, who would not soonest salute the scarecrow? — Thoreau, Walden
I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.—Whitman — Leaves of Grass
Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it. — Mark Twain (via quote-book)
Break our backs Obama.
For who hath despised the day of small things? — Zechariah 4:10
“The editorials went on speaking of self-denial as the road to future progress, of self-sacrifice as the moral imperative, of greed as the enemy, of love as the solution—their threadbare phrases as sickeningly sweet as the odor of ether in a hospital.” Atlas Shrugged
Yes AND no. Bufu Ikkan.