Friday, April 27, 2012

Friday Quotes XVII

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Hmm. Lady Kennedy was arguing that our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people's intolerance, which is intolerable. And, unlikely as it sounds, this has now become the highest, most rarefied form of multiculturalism. So you're nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists. ~ Mark Styne

""Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul, you postpone the cure until next year?" --Horace"

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