“Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.”

We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it.

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

People can live without a giant state. We’ve proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people.

Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny’s if he wasn’t Vice President.

They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.

Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence.

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect.

The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.

You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer’s head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.

Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.

If at first you don’t succeed, get a bigger hammer.

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

I’m a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I’m into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

A cat will blink when struck with a hammer.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.