Favorite Quotes and Sayings 1

• " Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."- Sir Francis Bacon
• " It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."- U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• John Kenneth Gallbraith: The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
• " Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."- Confucius
• " It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."- Buddha
• " The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."- Theodore Roosevelt