“Either you will control your government, or government will control you.”
Ronald Reagan
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
27JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone’s reputation, and you don’t have to talk about what he stands for.”
Ronald Reagan
26JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“It’s hard, when you’re up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.”
Ronald Reagan
25JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.”
Ronald Reagan
24JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“It’s not that liberals aren’t smart, it’s just that so much of what they know isn’t so.”
Ronald Reagan
23JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”
Ronald Reagan
22JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
William Butler Yeats
21JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
Blaise Pascal
This reads a little like a fortune cookie but in my kinder moments I see the sense for a reminder.
20JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”
Blaise Pascal
19JAN2019 – Quote of the Day
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal