OneGuyFromBarlick

Income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. - Barry Goldwater

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. - Robert Heinlein

A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. - Maximilien Robespierre

"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." - Warren Buffett

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. - P.J. O'Rourke

Quote of the day, month, YEAR.

The Prime Minister - standing in the flood in the stockbroker belt. . . .

"“Money is no object in this relief effort. Whatever money is needed for, it will be spent,”

You must be as cynical as I am.....

Tripps wrote:Quote of the day, month, YEAR. The Prime Minister - standing in the flood in the stockbroker belt. . . . "“Money is no object in this relief effort. Whatever money is needed for, it will be spent,”

They bailed out the bankers, so now they bail them out again!

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. - Robert Heinlein

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer
Alice Wellington Rollins

"They have but two rulers, M de Warwick and another whose name I have forgotten."
– The Governor of Abbeville in a letter to Louis XI about "The Kingmaker"

Headline from the Andover Advertiser.

"Hague warns Russia on Ukraine move"

I heard him say that and Kerry chiming in as well. I wonder whether they think Putin would take any notice if he thought the same thing could happen in Russia....?

It everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking. - George Patton

On Thought for the Day this morning, in relation to the Police-Lawrence business:
`Trust comes in on foot, but leaves on horseback'

It's developing into an enormous mess isn't it.....

Found in Barry Cunliffe's book on Pytheas the Greek.
Polybius, the Roman historian, writing about 'armchair historians'. "It would be well with history, either when men of action write it or when would-be historians regard a training in practical affairs as essential to their craft".
(He was echoing what Plato said on the same subject.)

"Say what you believe and believe in what you say"
Tony Benn

Have a look at THIS for some good Benn quotes.
One of my favourites: "It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his" - 1982 during a TV interview.
And this from Harold Wilson: "Tomfool issues, barmy ideas, a kind of ageing, perennial youth which immatures with age".

Mind you, Benn said (with some justification) that the big problem with Harold was that you couldn't believe anything he said.

The world makes way for a man who knows where he is going. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door"

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir Lawrence Bragg.

(i) "The best data for finding an Enigma Key is a crib"

(ii) "The method to be used for finding a key will be to take a hypothesis about part of the key and then draw from it all the conclusions that one can, hoping to obtain either a confirmation or a contradiction"

Dr Alan Turing

"Treatise on the Enigma"

The thing that struck me when learning about the code-breakers was the number of times the initial clue was a mistake made by the sender. I suppose that was a crib.