Paul Craig Roberts: The end of sovereignty? - Conservative US columnist argues against the European Union because it doesn't have a common language, history and culture which would provide sufficient cohesiveness. He also argues for assimilation and against multiculturalism.
Paul Craig Roberts: Say goodbye to England - Conservative US columnist argues against Britain being part of the European Union because if replaces their justice system with European law.
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Opinion Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Opinion
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Opinion "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Opinion
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Opinion "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Opinion
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Opinion If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Opinion
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opinion A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Opinion
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Opinion The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Opinion
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Opinion In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Opinion
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Opinion I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Opinion
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Opinion cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Opinion
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Opinion The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Opinion
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Opinion If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Opinion
