"I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them."

-- Josh Marshall

#Country Quotes #Mean Quotes #Gun Quotes

“Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental.”
“It was a pretty good year for predators.”
“They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit...”
“Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.”
“The tough player is the one who is difficult to play against and easy to play with”
“I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.”
“Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.”

Source : "The Liberal Tradition in European Thought". Book by David Sidorsky, p. 73, 1971.
“We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.”

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