Mary Pettibone Poole

Mary Pettibone Poole (?-?) was an American writer most well known for her collection of aphorisms, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole.

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

A Glass Eye at a Keyhole

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

Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State—a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves.

Fulton Sheen

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn’t spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation—from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries.

Ronald Reagan

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men’s doing.

Teddy Roosevelt

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

Horace

It seems to be a fact of life that human beings cannot continue to do wrong without eventually reaching out for some thin rationalization to clothe the obvious wrong in the beautiful garments of righteousness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Jesus Christ

We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.

John Gardner

Revolutions like this have happened in almost every country in Europe . . . instances of the people losing their liberty by their own carelessness and the ambition of a few.

Patrick Henry

Any civilization that denies free will is, generally, a civilization that is already disgusted with the choices of its freedom, because it has brought unhappiness upon itself.

Fulton Sheen

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

The wise of heart will heed commandments, but a prating fool will come to ruin.

Holy Bible

If the people are stupid, they can be easily governed.

Shang Yang

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca the Younger

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

William O. Douglas

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Mahatma Gandhi

People enjoy helping when they can, it is part of human nature. But when people are forced to pay heavy taxes to finance entitlement programs, food stamps, and welfare, they hate it.

Paul Skousen

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negotiation.

Jordan Peterson

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