Showing posts with label Power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power. Show all posts

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- What I told my daughter about climate change. Lucky I'm from New England and you can see the warming and cooling and the glaciers coming and going for million years,

- Jonathan Turley on Kamala Harris and bad idea jeans.

- Many a truth is said in jest.

- The mistake of conflating intelligence and power.

Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you. 

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton

"Do not take life too seriously - you will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke 

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." - Daniel Webster

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you. 

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton

"Do not take life too seriously - you will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke 

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know; it's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain