State of Fear

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 we have to kill 12 people to save 1 human life it will have been worth it.
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The United States now has the dubious distinction of having the highest corporate tax rate in the world. And people wonder why American corporations are expanding overseas, providing jobs to foreigners. The left may get their jollies attacking "the rich," but the real victims are other people, who want the jobs that are sent overseas to escape a hostile business climate at home.
Thomas Sowell
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Will Rogers
Conversions will occur a few at a time until, after the last hold-outs have died, the whole profession will again be practicing under a single, but now different, paradigm.
Thomas Kuhn
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel Johnson
I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.
Ayn Rand
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman