“It is not only that what happens is inseparable from what people think happens; what people think about their collective or national past is inseparable from their thinking about their present. Their ideas about their history shapes their politics.”
John Lukacs At the End of an Age
“There is no reason in principle why Mises and Hayek, building on nineteenth-century thought, might not already have said most of what is important about the functioning of market economies. It may be that we are in an age of seriously diminishing returns.” Michael Prowse in National Review Feb. 24 1997
“What you get free costs too much.”
Jean Anouilh
“If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.’
Rudyard Kipling”
“Religion might sometimes fail to right what was wrong; but it never descended to declaring that everything was right.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News February 25 1907
“He [Erasmus] believed with Horace, the Roman poet, that nothing prevents us from ‘stating the truth with a smile upon our lips.’”
Hendrik van Loon The Story of Mankind
“Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.” Ezer Weizman
“And now the strifes and uncertainties of the past are finished. We see around us on every side the proofs of stability and improvement.…”
U.S. Vice-President John C. Breckinridge, inaugurating the new U.S. Senate Chamber, January 4, 1859 (apparently history didn’t end on cue then either)