"While history doesn't repeat, it rhymes."
-John Robb

"A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job."
-John Wayne

"Trying to bring about prosperity by raising taxes is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself."
-Winston Churchill

"When science gets rich it becomes political."
-Freeman Dyson

The Real Political Divide

"The real political divide - is not left versus right, but stasists versus dynamists. The former fear change and want to use government power to minimize it, if not eliminate it. The latter accept that improvements in the human condition require change by definition, and understand that the best way to ensure it is to allow individuals the freedom to make choices, with consequences, both good and ill, to be
borne by them."
-Virginia Postrel

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
-General George Patton

"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty."
-Robert Heinlein