There is a difference between a man who fights to protect what he loves, and a man who fights to destroy what he hates. As long as we remain the former, and never the latter, we will be-as we have always been-the good guys.
-Van Evan Fuller

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill

"The purpose of a school system is to [develop students who] have learned some self discipline, have learned to read, write, and cipher, and learned the basic structure of the civil government. And with luck to have learned something of the national saga and to have some appreciation of the importance of civil order, and to have developed some of the habits of good citizenship. Of course no one thinks that way now."

-Jerry Pournelle

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
-Margaret Thatcher