Previous Pearls of Wisdom

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. - Ayn Rand

Thinking men cannot be ruled. - Ayn Rand

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. - Josef Stalin

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. - M. Russell Ballard

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

Politicians are like diapers. They should both be changed frequently and for the same reason. - Anonymous

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. - Lily Tomlin

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

New ideas pass through three periods: “It can’t be done.” “It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing.” “I knew it was a good idea all along!” - Arthur C. Clarke

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times.
- George Van Valkenburg

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world: indeed it’s the only thing that ever has! - Margaret Meade

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

A common mistake people make when trying to design something foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. - Woody Allen

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra

Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.- Williams Jennings Bryan

“Would you tell me which way I ought to go from here?” asked Alice.
”That depends a good deal on where you want to get,” said the Cat.
”I really don’t care where” replied Alice.
“Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
Lewis Carroll

We do make a difference—one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow. -Stephen Covey

In Houston, a person walking is someone on his way to his car. - Anthony Downs

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it. - Antoine de Saint Exupery

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. - Milton Friedman

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Fuller

A hundred years after we are gone and forgotten, those who never heard of us will be living with the results of our actions. - Oliver Wendell Homes

But the ‘long run’ is a misleading guide to current affairs. ‘In the long run’ we are all dead. - John Maynard Keyes

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually. - James Howard Kunstler,

Life is what happens to us while we’re too busy making other plans. - JohnLennon

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln

Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how. - Edward T. McMahon,

Trend is not destiny. - Lewis Mumford

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine

The trouble with land is that they’re not making it anymore. - Will Rogers

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness. – Sun Tzu,

The suburb is a place where a developer cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees. - Bill Vaughn

Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us. - Richard I. Winwood

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy. - Frank Lloyd Wright

When policy fails try thinking. - Anonymous

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. - Dan Quayle

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. - Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone

A fool and his money are soon elected. - Will Rogers

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. - Dan Quayle

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” - George Bernard Shaw.

We’d all like to vote for the best man but he’s never a candidate.
Kim Hubbard

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Galbraith

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don’t always agree with them. George Bush

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
Ronald Reagan.

For every complex, difficult problem, there is a simple, easy solution...and it is wrong. - H. L. Mencken

It’s not getting any smarter out there. You have to come to terms with stupidity and make it work for you. – Frank Zappa

Man can hardly recognize the devils of his own creation. - Albert Schweitzer

If you tell a big enough Lie, and keep on repeating it, in the end people will come to believe it. - Josef Goebbels