French philosopher and author Francois Voltaire once wrote, "I do not agree with what you are saying, but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it." I think this...
A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire Ever notice how we agree with our friends, yet belittle our enemies? I caught myself doing this the other day and later found...
There have been a plethora of great thinkers in the history of Western civilization. Plato. Voltaire. Adam Smith. John Locke. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson. Emerson. Kant. Great Eastern thinkers have included Confucius...
...continue to set historical lying records. Is Obama aware that he's lying? Or is he so stupid he doesn't even realize it? VOLTAIRE SAID, "It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." Obama's' government is always wrong, so America...
History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. -- Voltaire Last year, I wrote a feature for our Web site about a curious incident in our nation's past.In July 1947 when President Harry...
Anything too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire Do you suffer from earworms? Do you know what earworms are? Ever get a catchy or irritating song stuck in your head? That's...
Judge a man by his questions and not by his logic. - Voltaire The first day of the last month dawned cold and dark and December. Overhead the new moon was nowhere to be seen. My son, waiting...
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. -- Voltaire When I speak to groups, I'm often asked to describe the benefits for working for a newspaper. Usually I say it's getting...
...would become a demanding monarch. After her husband's death she promoted public gardens. She was born in a village that Voltaire and Goethe found attractive. Her village would become the center of the Enlightenment in Germany, and for a while, after...
...are overeating while precious children are starving to death. Both pro-lifers and pro-abortionist are equally guilty. Voltaire said, "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." In the same way the editorial does not point out what pro-lifers...
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