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Lee Iacocca:

We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, “Stay the course.” Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic.

And he said that in 2007. Wonder what he’d say now.

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August 12, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

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August 11, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Blaise Pascal:

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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August 10, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Gerard Horan, in the voice of Ray Butler:

Once you start with a lie, there’s somehow no going back, is there?

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August 9, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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W. H. Auden:

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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August 8, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Harry Truman:

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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August 7, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jim Bacchus as Thurston Howell III and Bob Denver as Gilligan:

Howell: Young man, are you accusing a man of cheating. I’ll have you know that I’m far too wealthy.

Gilligan: To cheat?

Howell: No, to be accused.

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August 6, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Rex Stout:

One of the brain’s most efficient departments is the one that turn possibilities into probabilities, and probabilities into facts.

Stout, Rex, Too Many Clients (New York: Bantam, 1962) p, 123

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August 5, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Max Frisch:

Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.

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August 4, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Charles A. Kupchan:

Far from paving the way for a halcyon future of prosperity and stability, the digital era promises to usher in as profound a political and social transformation as that wrought by the arrival of the industrial age.

Afterthought:

He wrote that in 2002. Methinks he was onto something.

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August 3, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Germaine Greer:

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

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August 2, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Hunter S. Thompson:

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don’t see too many objective journalists on that list. H. L. Mencken was not objective. Mike Royko, who just died. I. F. Stone was not objective. Mark Twain was not objective. I don’t quite understand this worship of objectivity in journalism. Now, just flat-out lying is different from being subjective.

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August 1, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Omar Bradley:

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

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July 31, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Leo Rosten:

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

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July 30, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Millard Fillmore:

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

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July 29, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Anatole France:

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

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July 28, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Laura Penny:

The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces of ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.

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July 27, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ogden Nash:

Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens . . . .

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July 26, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Daniel Defoe:

All men would be tyrants if they could.

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July 25, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Winona LaDuke:

If private property has found safe haven in the Fifth Amendment, where is common property equally protected?

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July 24, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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