Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom: Eisenhower and Michael Crichton on Science

November 30, 2009November 30, 2009

Anyone can rent a scientist. But when Federal funding is at stake, it appears you can also rent a conclusion. In his farewell address to the nation back in 1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the danger from the military… Read More »Wisdom: Eisenhower and Michael Crichton on Science

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more destructive to opportunities for the poor than diverting resources from entrepreneurs who know how to use them profitably and giving them to government to spend politically.
George Gilder
The errors of Keynes have empowered sociopathic political classes all over the world and deprived the world of the economic progress we would otherwise have enjoyed.
Lew Rockwell
For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.
John Locke
As we approach 2015, view the world as a bubble seeking a pin.
Monty Pelerin
A fool and his money are destined for a short relationship.
Monty Pelerin
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
Organized crime, or even outright terrorism, can do far less harm than the most well-meaning government. It's a matter of power, not intention.
Joseph Sobran