These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.
– Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 30
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July 3rd, 2002 | Comments are closed
 Sex doesn’t interfere with the tennis. It’s staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis. (Agassi, now happily married to Steffi Graf, didn’t make it to the last sixteen in the men’s singles at this year’s Wimbledon, and nor did any other Americans, the first time this has happened since nineteen twenty something. Maybe they should get out more.) July 1st, 2002 | Comments are closed
It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. June 30th, 2002 | Comments are closed
“Hey, Yutz! Guns aren’t toys! They’re for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals and keeping the king of England outta your face!” June 28th, 2002 | Comments are closed
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people. June 27th, 2002 | Comments are closed
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, anytime, and with utter recklessness. June 21st, 2002 | Comments are closed
That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. June 20th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Amongst other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. June 19th, 2002 | Comments are closed
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Or: We must preserve our freedoms or the bad guys win. June 18th, 2002 | Comments are closed
June 17th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Being young in those times meant suppressing the sound of one’s own breathing. June 15th, 2002 | Comments are closed
We live in a litigious society – everybody running off to court. It’s stupid. It’s up to the judge to make them feel stupid. I can do that. June 12th, 2002 | Comments are closed
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