Jonathan Rauch

Jonathan Rauch (1960-) is an American writer and journalist. He is an advocate of political incrementalism and consensus building. He was an advocate for government recognition of same-sex marriage and an apologist for introversion.

Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

Caring for Your Introvert

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Blaise Pascal

Since at least the mid second century until the present time, Christians have made predictions regarding Jesus’s second coming and the end of the world. The one thing they all have in common is they are all incorrect. . . .

Jimmy Seghers

Congress shall make no law respecting . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

U.S. Constitution

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You ask me for a method of obtaining perfection. I know of Love and Love only! Our hearts are made for this alone.

Thérèse of Lisieux

For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs.

Paul the Apostle

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Gerald Ford

There are only two kinds of people who go into bankruptcy—those who don’t know how to handle money and those who know all too well.

Thomas Sowell

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up; but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

Holy Bible

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

Elbert Hubbard

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

John Adams

Judging God by human political categories is like judging a great symphony on which stanza of ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ it most resembles.

Peter Kreeft

You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.

P.J. O’Rourke

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

Without scarcity, there is no need to economize—and therefore no economics.

Thomas Sowell

I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

Bernard Shaw

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Ambrose Bierce

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Mignon McLaughlin

He who knoweth himself well is vile in his own sight.

Thomas à Kempis

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