Robert S. Strauss famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you canâ€™t own it. You can spend it, but you canâ€™t keep it. And once youâ€™ve lost it, there is no getting it back. Itâ€™s just gone.
More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.
David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.
I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...

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