MARIO KIEFER

"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone." - Frederic Bastiat...

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish...

“Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune #FavoriteQuotes

“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always...

“It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of...

“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and...

“Perhaps . . . that’s all that government is — just a gang with the most men, the most money, and the better arms.” ~ the character,...

"We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing ... The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came...

“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime . . .” — Supreme Court Justice...

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” — Joseph Stalin General...

“It was in my anger that she was conceived. And it was in my rage that she was born. Through that anger; through that rage, I invited...

“. . .it was easier to be humane when one was not human.” ~ the character Nergal from “The Fifth” #FavoriteQuotes

“Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit.” - Robert A. Heinlein, Author, ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’. #FavoriteQuotes

Secrecy begets tyranny. ~Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land #FavoriteQuotes

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~often attributed to Albert Einstein, but also to...

“Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t...

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~ George Elliot #FavoriteQuotes

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." ~ Henry Ford #FavoriteQuotes

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." ~Thomas Jefferson #FavoriteQuotes

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” ~Marcus Aurelius #FavoriteQuotes