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{"_name": "1: What has happened in the past will happen in the future.<br>2: Consider the obvious seriously, for few people will see it.<br>3: Consider the consequences.", "_id": 2426, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2426",  "values": ["1: What has happened in the past will happen in the future.<br>2: Consider the obvious seriously, for few people will see it.<br>3: Consider the consequences.", "Isaac Asimov, Three Laws of Futurics", "history"]},
{"_name": "40 years after the Wright Brothers made their first flight, more than a million people had flown in a plane; 40 years after man first went into space, fewer than 500 people have followed them there.", "_id": 2427, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2427",  "values": ["40 years after the Wright Brothers made their first flight, more than a million people had flown in a plane; 40 years after man first went into space, fewer than 500 people have followed them there.", "Ed Hudgins", "space"]},
{"_name": "A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.", "_id": 2428, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2428",  "values": ["A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.", "Akin's 20th Law", "business"]},
{"_name": "A business plan should be used as an opportunity to sell your company, not your product.", "_id": 2429, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2429",  "values": ["A business plan should be used as an opportunity to sell your company, not your product.", "Tom Crotty", "business"]},
{"_name": "A careful definition of words would destroy half the agenda of the political left and scrutinizing evidence would destroy the other half.", "_id": 2430, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2430",  "values": ["A careful definition of words would destroy half the agenda of the political left and scrutinizing evidence would destroy the other half.", "Thomas Sowell", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A computer without Windows is like a dog without bricks tied to its head.", "_id": 2431, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2431",  "values": ["A computer without Windows is like a dog without bricks tied to its head.", null, "computers"]},
{"_name": "A cult is a religion with no political power.", "_id": 2432, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2432",  "values": ["A cult is a religion with no political power.", "Tom Wolfe", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. Democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.", "_id": 2433, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2433",  "values": ["A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. Democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.", "Alexander Fraser Tytler, The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic", "government"]},
{"_name": "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.", "_id": 2434, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2434",  "values": ["A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.", "Thomas Jefferson", "government"]},
{"_name": "A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.", "_id": 2435, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2435",  "values": ["A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", "_id": 2436, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2436",  "values": ["A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "advice"]},
{"_name": "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.", "_id": 2437, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2437",  "values": ["A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.", "George Washington", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.", "_id": 2438, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2438",  "values": ["A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.", "Adlai Stevenson", "government"]},
{"_name": "A general rule: If you are told what someone does for a living and it makes sense to you--orthodontist, store owner, professor--that means he's not rich. But if it's a man in a suit who does something that takes him five sentences to explain and still you walk away confused, and castigating yourself as to why you couldn't understand the central facts of the acquisition of wealth in the age you live in--well, chances are you just talked to a billionaire.", "_id": 2439, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2439",  "values": ["A general rule: If you are told what someone does for a living and it makes sense to you--orthodontist, store owner, professor--that means he's not rich. But if it's a man in a suit who does something that takes him five sentences to explain and still you walk away confused, and castigating yourself as to why you couldn't understand the central facts of the acquisition of wealth in the age you live in--well, chances are you just talked to a billionaire.", "Peggy Noonan", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.", "_id": 2440, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2440",  "values": ["A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.", "Gen. George Patton", "advice"]},
{"_name": "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.", "_id": 2441, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2441",  "values": ["A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.", "Barry Goldwater", "government"]},
{"_name": "A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul.", "_id": 2442, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2442",  "values": ["A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul.", "George Bernard Shaw", "government"]},
{"_name": "A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.", "_id": 2443, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2443",  "values": ["A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.", "Senator Sam Ervin", "government"]},
{"_name": "A lack of consensus is no excuse for a lack of leadership.", "_id": 2444, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2444",  "values": ["A lack of consensus is no excuse for a lack of leadership.", "Margaret Thatcher", "advice"]},
{"_name": "A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.", "_id": 2445, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2445",  "values": ["A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.", "Mario Puzo", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A Liberal believes that schools should teach children about self esteem, the environment, diversity, etc. A Conservative believes that schools should teach children reading, writing, math and history.", "_id": 2446, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2446",  "values": ["A Liberal believes that schools should teach children about self esteem, the environment, diversity, etc. A Conservative believes that schools should teach children reading, writing, math and history.", null, "education"]},
{"_name": "A liberal is someone who will give you the shirt off of somebody else's back.", "_id": 2447, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2447",  "values": ["A liberal is someone who will give you the shirt off of somebody else's back.", null, "politics"]},
{"_name": "A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom--right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.", "_id": 2448, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2448",  "values": ["A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom--right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.", "Neal Boortz", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition.", "_id": 2449, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2449",  "values": ["A man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition.", "Rudyard Kipling", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "A man who is not a liberal by the time he's 20 has no heart, and a man who is not a conservative by the time he's 40 has no brain.", "_id": 2450, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2450",  "values": ["A man who is not a liberal by the time he's 20 has no heart, and a man who is not a conservative by the time he's 40 has no brain.", "Winston Churchill", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.", "_id": 2451, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2451",  "values": ["A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.", "Malcolm X", "advice"]},
{"_name": "A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it--it keeps him upright.", "_id": 2452, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2452",  "values": ["A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it--it keeps him upright.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "government"]},
{"_name": "A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.", "_id": 2453, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2453",  "values": ["A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.", "Voltaire", "government"]},
{"_name": "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.", "_id": 2454, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2454",  "values": ["A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.", "Edward R. Morrow", "government"]},
{"_name": "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.", "_id": 2455, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2455",  "values": ["A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.", "Edward Abbey", "government"]},
{"_name": "A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.", "_id": 2456, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2456",  "values": ["A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.", "Anatole France", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.", "_id": 2457, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2457",  "values": ["A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.", "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens.", "_id": 8152, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=8152",  "values": ["A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "government"]},
{"_name": "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.", "_id": 2458, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2458",  "values": ["A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.", "Winston Churchill", "advice"]},
{"_name": "A politician in power tends to remain in power.", "_id": 2459, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2459",  "values": ["A politician in power tends to remain in power.", "Boortz's First Rule of Political Dynamics", "politics"]},
{"_name": "A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party.", "_id": 2460, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2460",  "values": ["A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party.", "James Madison", "government"]},
{"_name": "A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will wind up with neither.", "_id": 2461, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2461",  "values": ["A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will wind up with neither.", "Milton Friedman", "government"]},
{"_name": "A society which maintains that the interest of the individual is neglible compared to the interest of the nation is a lawless society.", "_id": 2462, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2462",  "values": ["A society which maintains that the interest of the individual is neglible compared to the interest of the nation is a lawless society.", "Alexander Zinoviev", "government"]},
{"_name": "A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.", "_id": 2463, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2463",  "values": ["A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.", "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.", "_id": 2464, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2464",  "values": ["A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "government"]},
{"_name": "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.", "_id": 2465, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2465",  "values": ["A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.", "Thomas Jefferson", "government"]},
{"_name": "Above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual.", "_id": 2466, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2466",  "values": ["Above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual.", "Adolf Hitler (scary, huh?)", "government"]},
{"_name": "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.", "_id": 2467, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2467",  "values": ["Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.", "Benjamin Disraeli", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.", "_id": 2468, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2468",  "values": ["Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.", "Thomas Sowell", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Administrator Dan Goldin fired hundreds from NASA Headquarters. A week later no one could remember what they did: they weren't missed at all. On the other hand, when bureaucrats get in charge of reductions in force, they always try to get rid of key people who actually do the work: that way they'll have no choice but to hire more.", "_id": 5320, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5320",  "values": ["Administrator Dan Goldin fired hundreds from NASA Headquarters. A week later no one could remember what they did: they weren't missed at all. On the other hand, when bureaucrats get in charge of reductions in force, they always try to get rid of key people who actually do the work: that way they'll have no choice but to hire more.", null, "politics"]},
{"_name": "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.", "_id": 2469, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2469",  "values": ["Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.", "Thomas Jefferson", "politics"]},
{"_name": "After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.", "_id": 2470, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2470",  "values": ["After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.", "Fred Thompson, US senator, lawyer, writer, actor", "government"]},
{"_name": "All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.", "_id": 2471, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2471",  "values": ["All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.", "Julius Caesar", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "All inanimate objects are scientifically divided into three categories: Those that break down, those that don't work, and those that can't be repaired.", "_id": 4349, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=4349",  "values": ["All inanimate objects are scientifically divided into three categories: Those that break down, those that don't work, and those that can't be repaired.", "Russell Baker", "humor"]},
{"_name": "All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.", "_id": 2472, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2472",  "values": ["All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.", "IBM maintenance manual, 1925", "humor"]},
{"_name": "All that is needed to give rise to a mighty nation is a simple, irrevocable guarantee that individual members of the productive class be permitted to keep whatever they create.", "_id": 2473, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2473",  "values": ["All that is needed to give rise to a mighty nation is a simple, irrevocable guarantee that individual members of the productive class be permitted to keep whatever they create.", "L. Neil Smith", "government"]},
{"_name": "All the gold in California Is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else's name. So if you dreaming about California, It don't matter at all where you've played before, California's a brand new game.", "_id": 2474, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2474",  "values": ["All the gold in California Is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else's name. So if you dreaming about California, It don't matter at all where you've played before, California's a brand new game.", "The Gatlin Brothers", "business"]},
{"_name": "All those other constitutions are documents that say, 'We, the government, allow the people the following rights,' and our Constitution says 'We the People, allow the government the following privileges and rights.' We give our permission to government to do the things that it does. And that's the whole story of the difference--why we're unique in the world and why no matter what our troubles may be, we're going to overcome.", "_id": 2475, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2475",  "values": ["All those other constitutions are documents that say, 'We, the government, allow the people the following rights,' and our Constitution says 'We the People, allow the government the following privileges and rights.' We give our permission to government to do the things that it does. And that's the whole story of the difference--why we're unique in the world and why no matter what our troubles may be, we're going to overcome.", "Ronald Reagan", "government"]},
{"_name": "All we have of freedom--all we use or know--This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.", "_id": 2476, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2476",  "values": ["All we have of freedom--all we use or know--This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.", "Rudyard Kipling", "history"]},
{"_name": "Almighty Ruler of the all, Whose Power extends to great and small, Who guides the stars with steadfast law, Whose least creation fills with awe, O grant thy mercy and thy grace, To those who venture into space.", "_id": 2477, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2477",  "values": ["Almighty Ruler of the all, Whose Power extends to great and small, Who guides the stars with steadfast law, Whose least creation fills with awe, O grant thy mercy and thy grace, To those who venture into space.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "space"]},
{"_name": "Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do.", "_id": 2478, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2478",  "values": ["Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do.", "Ronald Reagan", "government"]},
{"_name": "Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off.", "_id": 2479, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2479",  "values": ["Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off.", "Stewart H. Holbrook", "history"]},
{"_name": "Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions, and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.", "_id": 2480, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2480",  "values": ["Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions, and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.", "Dave James", "humor"]},
{"_name": "Always surround yourself with people who are smarter than you are. Then allow them to take the credit for successes, while you take the blame for their failures.", "_id": 2481, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2481",  "values": ["Always surround yourself with people who are smarter than you are. Then allow them to take the credit for successes, while you take the blame for their failures.", "Pete Peterson", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.", "_id": 5349, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5349",  "values": ["Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.", "Gen. Douglas MacArthur", "history"]},
{"_name": "Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.", "_id": 2482, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2482",  "values": ["Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.", null, "humor"]},
{"_name": "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.", "_id": 2483, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2483",  "values": ["America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.", "Claire Wolfe", "politics"]},
{"_name": "America is unique, strong, great because of our commitment to personal freedom... We are a free people who consented to be governed. Not vice versa.", "_id": 6570, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=6570",  "values": ["America is unique, strong, great because of our commitment to personal freedom... We are a free people who consented to be governed. Not vice versa.", "Sen. John Sununu", "government"]},
{"_name": "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed--unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.", "_id": 2484, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2484",  "values": ["Americans have the right and advantage of being armed--unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.", "James Madison", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.", "_id": 2485, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2485",  "values": ["Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.", "Mahatma Gandhi", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.", "_id": 2486, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2486",  "values": ["Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.", "Samuel Adams", "government"]},
{"_name": "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.", "_id": 2487, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2487",  "values": ["An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.", "Winston Churchill", "politics"]},
{"_name": "An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.", "_id": 5336, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5336",  "values": ["An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.", null, "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "An armed society is a polite society.", "_id": 2488, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2488",  "values": ["An armed society is a polite society.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.", "_id": 2489, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2489",  "values": ["An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.", "John F. Kennedy", "government"]},
{"_name": "An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.", "_id": 2490, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2490",  "values": ["An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.", "Auren Hoffman", "business"]},
{"_name": "An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.", "_id": 5062, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5062",  "values": ["An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.", "John Gardner", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.", "_id": 2491, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2491",  "values": ["An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.", "Niels Bohr", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. ... There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends & books.", "_id": 2492, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2492",  "values": ["An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. ... There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends & books.", "Thomas Jefferson", "government"]},
{"_name": "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.", "_id": 2493, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2493",  "values": ["An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.", "Charles F. Kettering", "business"]},
{"_name": "An ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the *last* invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.", "_id": 2494, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2494",  "values": ["An ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the *last* invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.", "Vernor Vinge", "computers"]},
{"_name": "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.", "_id": 2495, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2495",  "values": ["An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.", "John Marshall", "government"]},
{"_name": "And that is called paying the Dane-geld;<BR> but we've proved it again and again,<BR> that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld<BR> you never get rid of the Dane.", "_id": 2496, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2496",  "values": ["And that is called paying the Dane-geld;<BR> but we've proved it again and again,<BR> that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld<BR> you never get rid of the Dane.", "Rudyard Kipling", "history"]},
{"_name": "And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me.", "_id": 2497, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2497",  "values": ["And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me.", "Cervantes", "government"]},
{"_name": "And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.", "_id": 11622, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=11622",  "values": ["And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.", "Alcuin of York, 798 A.D.", "government"]},
{"_name": "And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.", "_id": 2498, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2498",  "values": ["And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.", "H.L. Mencken", "education"]},
{"_name": "And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch... the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.", "_id": 2499, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2499",  "values": ["And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch... the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.", "Julius Caesar", "government"]},
{"_name": "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditures twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.", "_id": 2500, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2500",  "values": ["Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditures twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.", "Charles Dickens", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", "_id": 2501, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2501",  "values": ["Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", "Arthur C. Clarke", "science"]},
{"_name": "Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable. As a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.", "_id": 2502, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2502",  "values": ["Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable. As a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.", "Friedrich von Schiller", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.", "_id": 2503, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2503",  "values": ["Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.", "Thomas A. Edison", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.", "_id": 2504, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2504",  "values": ["Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.", "G. Harry Stine", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Anyway, my point is, I just want those protestors to stop for one moment and think that if America really is as evil and imperialistic as they say, then why aren't they dead? If they think we just want oil, hell, we could take over the entire world and have not just all the oil in the world, but all the gold, all the diamonds, all the chimpanzees and orangutans, and all the corndogs. And who could stop us? France?", "_id": 2505, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2505",  "values": ["Anyway, my point is, I just want those protestors to stop for one moment and think that if America really is as evil and imperialistic as they say, then why aren't they dead? If they think we just want oil, hell, we could take over the entire world and have not just all the oil in the world, but all the gold, all the diamonds, all the chimpanzees and orangutans, and all the corndogs. And who could stop us? France?", "IMAO", "politics"]},
{"_name": "As a general proposition, when told by unanimous elites that a particular course of action is urgent and necessary to avoid disaster, there’s a lot to be said for going fishing.", "_id": 7084, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=7084",  "values": ["As a general proposition, when told by unanimous elites that a particular course of action is urgent and necessary to avoid disaster, there’s a lot to be said for going fishing.", "Mark Steyn", "politics"]},
{"_name": "As a lifelong Star Trek fan, I would love to live in an age when the globe was united in peace and prosperity, but I am unwilling to endure the paradigm-wrecking nation-shattering nuclear war and eugenic-master-race tyranny required to get to that point.", "_id": 6676, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=6676",  "values": ["As a lifelong Star Trek fan, I would love to live in an age when the globe was united in peace and prosperity, but I am unwilling to endure the paradigm-wrecking nation-shattering nuclear war and eugenic-master-race tyranny required to get to that point.", "James Lileks", "humor"]},
{"_name": "As a rule of thumb, Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.", "_id": 2506, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2506",  "values": ["As a rule of thumb, Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.", "Thomas Sowell", "politics"]},
{"_name": "As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.", "_id": 2507, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2507",  "values": ["As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.", "Dave Barry", "government"]},
{"_name": "Assuming you can never lose your freedom is a mistake a free people get to make only once.", "_id": 2508, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2508",  "values": ["Assuming you can never lose your freedom is a mistake a free people get to make only once.", "Judge Alex Kozinski, Ninth Circuit", "government"]},
{"_name": "At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation", "_id": 2509, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2509",  "values": ["At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation", "Igor Sikorsky", "science"]},
{"_name": "At the highest levels, there seems to be a belief that you can mandate reality, followed by a refusal to accept any information that runs counter to that mandate.", "_id": 6749, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=6749",  "values": ["At the highest levels, there seems to be a belief that you can mandate reality, followed by a refusal to accept any information that runs counter to that mandate.", "Jeffrey Finckenor, resignation letter from NASA, 2008", "space"]},
{"_name": "Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.", "_id": 7336, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=7336",  "values": ["Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.", "Anne Bradstreet", "government"]},
{"_name": "Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.", "_id": 2510, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2510",  "values": ["Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.", "Edmund Burke", "government"]},
{"_name": "Based on the substantial amount of money pumped into the [DC public schools] and the resultant test scores, I do not believe that money alone is going to solve the problem.", "_id": 2511, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2511",  "values": ["Based on the substantial amount of money pumped into the [DC public schools] and the resultant test scores, I do not believe that money alone is going to solve the problem.", "Sen. Dianne Feinstein", "education"]},
{"_name": "Being a Mac user is like being a Navy Seal: a small, elite group of people with access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, whom everyone calls on to get the really tough jobs done quickly and efficiently.", "_id": 2512, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2512",  "values": ["Being a Mac user is like being a Navy Seal: a small, elite group of people with access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, whom everyone calls on to get the really tough jobs done quickly and efficiently.", null, "computers"]},
{"_name": "Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire.", "_id": 2513, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2513",  "values": ["Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire.", "USMC Maj. (ret.) Jim McDonough", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.", "_id": 2514, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2514",  "values": ["Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.", "Margaret Thatcher", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.", "_id": 2515, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2515",  "values": ["Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime 'get out of jail free' card, exempting you from responsibility for what you do thereafter.", "_id": 2516, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2516",  "values": ["Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime 'get out of jail free' card, exempting you from responsibility for what you do thereafter.", "Thomas Sowell", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.", "_id": 2517, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2517",  "values": ["Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.", "Julius Caesar", "government"]},
{"_name": "Bill Gates' greatest achievement was conditioning the average PC user to anticipate, expect, and accept mediocrity as the gold standard.", "_id": 2518, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2518",  "values": ["Bill Gates' greatest achievement was conditioning the average PC user to anticipate, expect, and accept mediocrity as the gold standard.", null, "computers"]},
{"_name": "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.", "_id": 2519, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2519",  "values": ["Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.", "Terry Pratchett.", "humor"]},
{"_name": "But an invention is something that was 'impossible' up to then--that's why governments grant patents.", "_id": 2520, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2520",  "values": ["But an invention is something that was 'impossible' up to then--that's why governments grant patents.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Buy to the sound of cannons, sell to the sound of trumpets.", "_id": 2521, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2521",  "values": ["Buy to the sound of cannons, sell to the sound of trumpets.", "Lord Rothschild", "business"]},
{"_name": "Buying Saudi oil is like sending LendLease to Hitler.", "_id": 5080, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5080",  "values": ["Buying Saudi oil is like sending LendLease to Hitler.", "Bill White", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell.", "_id": 4353, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=4353",  "values": ["Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell.", "Frank Borman", "business"]},
{"_name": "Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.", "_id": 2523, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2523",  "values": ["Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Chance of a lifetime, nuts! This is the greatest chance in all history. It's raining soup; grab yourself a bucket.", "_id": 2524, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2524",  "values": ["Chance of a lifetime, nuts! This is the greatest chance in all history. It's raining soup; grab yourself a bucket.", "Delos (DD) Harriman, The Man Who Sold The Moon", "space"]},
{"_name": "Civilization and profits go hand in hand.", "_id": 2525, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2525",  "values": ["Civilization and profits go hand in hand.", "Calvin Coolidge", "business"]},
{"_name": "Civilizations fail not because of a single bad mistake, but because of a series of bad mistakes.", "_id": 2526, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2526",  "values": ["Civilizations fail not because of a single bad mistake, but because of a series of bad mistakes.", "Walter Cronkite", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.", "_id": 2527, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2527",  "values": ["Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.", "Jean Francois Revel", "history"]},
{"_name": "Columbus would indeed have had to travel 12,000 miles to reach Asia and would surely have perished--but the American continents were in the way. Nobody had dreamed they existed and Columbus, who was completely wrong, won immortal fame by accident.", "_id": 2528, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2528",  "values": ["Columbus would indeed have had to travel 12,000 miles to reach Asia and would surely have perished--but the American continents were in the way. Nobody had dreamed they existed and Columbus, who was completely wrong, won immortal fame by accident.", "Isaac Asimov", "history"]},
{"_name": "Committees do harm merely by existing.", "_id": 2529, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2529",  "values": ["Committees do harm merely by existing.", "Freeman Dyson", "business"]},
{"_name": "Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat.", "_id": 2530, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2530",  "values": ["Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat.", null, "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Computers are a lot like air conditioners--they both work great until you open up Windows.", "_id": 2531, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2531",  "values": ["Computers are a lot like air conditioners--they both work great until you open up Windows.", null, "computers"]},
{"_name": "Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.", "_id": 2532, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2532",  "values": ["Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.", "Donald Knuth", "computers"]},
{"_name": "Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.", "_id": 2533, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2533",  "values": ["Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.", "William Feather", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair.", "_id": 4354, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=4354",  "values": ["Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair.", "Moss Kanter", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated.", "_id": 2534, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2534",  "values": ["Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated.", "Thomas Jefferson", "government"]},
{"_name": "Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc^2.", "_id": 2535, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2535",  "values": ["Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc^2.", "Michael Crichton", "science"]},
{"_name": "Conservatives are just as willing to distort the Constitution as liberals are. I say a pox on both their houses.", "_id": 2536, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2536",  "values": ["Conservatives are just as willing to distort the Constitution as liberals are. I say a pox on both their houses.", "Justice Antonin Scalia", "government"]},
{"_name": "Conservatives view Liberals as political opponents. Liberals view Conservatives as evil incarnate.", "_id": 2537, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2537",  "values": ["Conservatives view Liberals as political opponents. Liberals view Conservatives as evil incarnate.", null, "politics"]},
{"_name": "Considering all the consequences, the invention of agriculture may just be the worst mistake humanity ever made.", "_id": 2538, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2538",  "values": ["Considering all the consequences, the invention of agriculture may just be the worst mistake humanity ever made.", "L. Neil Smith", "history"]},
{"_name": "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.", "_id": 2539, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2539",  "values": ["Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.", "Winston Churchill", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Death is the lot of all of us and the only way the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all eternity.", "_id": 2540, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2540",  "values": ["Death is the lot of all of us and the only way the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all eternity.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Democracies don't make great products.", "_id": 2541, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2541",  "values": ["Democracies don't make great products.", "Jean-Louis Gasseé", "business"]},
{"_name": "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.", "_id": 8227, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=8227",  "values": ["Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.", "Alexis de Tocqueville", "government"]},
{"_name": "Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.", "_id": 2542, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2542",  "values": ["Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.", "George Bernard Shaw", "government"]},
{"_name": "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.", "_id": 2543, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2543",  "values": ["Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.", null, "government"]},
{"_name": "Democracy might be the most appropriate means of choosing government officials, but that does not imply that democracy equals freedom. Freedom requires more than the right to vote; it requires that each person be as unrestrained as possible from the arbitrary will of others--regardless of whether the others are conquering tyrants, hereditary oligarchs, black-robed judges, or a majority of neighbors or countrymen.", "_id": 2544, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2544",  "values": ["Democracy might be the most appropriate means of choosing government officials, but that does not imply that democracy equals freedom. Freedom requires more than the right to vote; it requires that each person be as unrestrained as possible from the arbitrary will of others--regardless of whether the others are conquering tyrants, hereditary oligarchs, black-robed judges, or a majority of neighbors or countrymen.", "Thomas Sowell", "government"]},
{"_name": "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.", "_id": 2545, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2545",  "values": ["Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.", "James Bovard", "government"]},
{"_name": "Did you ever notice that, if you eliminate punctuation, 'The I.R.S.' spells 'THEIRS'?", "_id": 2547, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2547",  "values": ["Did you ever notice that, if you eliminate punctuation, 'The I.R.S.' spells 'THEIRS'?", null, "humor"]},
{"_name": "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggie!' till you can find a rock.", "_id": 2548, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2548",  "values": ["Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggie!' till you can find a rock.", "Wynn Catlin", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.", "_id": 2549, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2549",  "values": ["Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.", "C.S. Lewis", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.", "_id": 2550, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2550",  "values": ["Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Does history record any case in which the majority was right?", "_id": 2551, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2551",  "values": ["Does history record any case in which the majority was right?", "Robert A. Heinlein", "government"]},
{"_name": "Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.", "_id": 2552, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2552",  "values": ["Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.", "David Lloyd George", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Don't ever think you know what's right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what's right for you.", "_id": 2553, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2553",  "values": ["Don't ever think you know what's right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what's right for you.", "Paul Williams", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.", "_id": 2554, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2554",  "values": ["Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.", "Mark Twain", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.", "_id": 2555, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2555",  "values": ["Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.", "Gen. George S. Patton", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.", "_id": 2556, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2556",  "values": ["Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.", "Howard Aiken", "advice"]},
{"_name": "DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.", "_id": 4340, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=4340",  "values": ["DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.", "NY Times, 1991", "computers"]},
{"_name": "Earlier Romans knew what it was to be Roman, why it was at least better than the alternative, and why their culture had to be defended. Later, in ignorance, they forgot what they knew, in pride mocked who they were, and in consequence disappeared.", "_id": 2557, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2557",  "values": ["Earlier Romans knew what it was to be Roman, why it was at least better than the alternative, and why their culture had to be defended. Later, in ignorance, they forgot what they knew, in pride mocked who they were, and in consequence disappeared.", "Victor Davis Hanson", "history"]},
{"_name": "Economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.", "_id": 2558, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2558",  "values": ["Economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.", "Ludwig von Mises", "government"]},
{"_name": "Economics exists to made astrology look respectable.", "_id": 4356, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=4356",  "values": ["Economics exists to made astrology look respectable.", "John Kenneth Galbraith", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Engineering is the art of the practical and depends more on the total state of the art than it does on the individual engineer. When railroading time comes you can railroad--but not before.", "_id": 2559, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2559",  "values": ["Engineering is the art of the practical and depends more on the total state of the art than it does on the individual engineer. When railroading time comes you can railroad--but not before.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "science"]},
{"_name": "Entrepreneurs have to be comfortable with never having their desk clear at the end of the day.", "_id": 2560, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2560",  "values": ["Entrepreneurs have to be comfortable with never having their desk clear at the end of the day.", "Pete Petit", "business"]},
{"_name": "Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.", "_id": 2561, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2561",  "values": ["Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.", "Mason Cooley", "business"]},
{"_name": "Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion.", "_id": 6278, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=6278",  "values": ["Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion.", "Freeman Dyson", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Envy plus rhetoric equals social justice.", "_id": 2562, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2562",  "values": ["Envy plus rhetoric equals social justice.", "Thomas Sowell", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Equal opportunity for all, special privileges for none.", "_id": 2563, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2563",  "values": ["Equal opportunity for all, special privileges for none.", "Andrew Jackson", "government"]},
{"_name": "Even a rather poverty stricken American of today has at his disposal more energy of more kinds than any Alexander or Caesar of the past can possibly have had. And while energy does not, of itself, bring happiness, lack of energy is very likely, of itself, to bring misery.", "_id": 2564, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2564",  "values": ["Even a rather poverty stricken American of today has at his disposal more energy of more kinds than any Alexander or Caesar of the past can possibly have had. And while energy does not, of itself, bring happiness, lack of energy is very likely, of itself, to bring misery.", "Isaac Asimov", "science"]},
{"_name": "Even if the laws of arithmetic are ignored during campaigns, they provide a real constraint when making actual policy", "_id": 8289, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=8289",  "values": ["Even if the laws of arithmetic are ignored during campaigns, they provide a real constraint when making actual policy", "Greg Mankiw", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Even Intel doesn't know quite why some chip manufacturing processes work better than others. In the late 1990's it instituted a program called 'Copy EXACTLY!,' which required that new plants use equipment and procedures replicated from existing plants, right down to the color of paint on the wall.", "_id": 2565, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2565",  "values": ["Even Intel doesn't know quite why some chip manufacturing processes work better than others. In the late 1990's it instituted a program called 'Copy EXACTLY!,' which required that new plants use equipment and procedures replicated from existing plants, right down to the color of paint on the wall.", "New York Times", "computers"]},
{"_name": "Every economist knows that minimum wages cause unemployment. That's not a statement, that's a definition.", "_id": 4358, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=4358",  "values": ["Every economist knows that minimum wages cause unemployment. That's not a statement, that's a definition.", "Milton Friedman", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.", "_id": 2566, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2566",  "values": ["Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree.", "Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.", "government"]},
{"_name": "Everybody knows that nuclear fusion can only take place at tremendously high temperatures and pressures, in the presence of billions of dollars.", "_id": 2567, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2567",  "values": ["Everybody knows that nuclear fusion can only take place at tremendously high temperatures and pressures, in the presence of billions of dollars.", "L. Neil Smith", "science"]},
{"_name": "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.", "_id": 2568, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2568",  "values": ["Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.", "Leo Tolstoy", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Everybody wants the government to 'do something!' until it does it to them.", "_id": 2569, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2569",  "values": ["Everybody wants the government to 'do something!' until it does it to them.", "Rick Gaber", "government"]},
{"_name": "Everyone who uses a computer frequently has had, from time to time, a mad desire to attack the precocious abacus with an axe.", "_id": 2570, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2570",  "values": ["Everyone who uses a computer frequently has had, from time to time, a mad desire to attack the precocious abacus with an axe.", "John D. Clark, 1972", "computers"]},
{"_name": "Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.", "_id": 2571, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2571",  "values": ["Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.", "Mar's Law", "science"]},
{"_name": "Except for ending slavery, fascism, Nazism & communism, war has never solved anything.", "_id": 4346, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=4346",  "values": ["Except for ending slavery, fascism, Nazism & communism, war has never solved anything.", null, "history"]},
{"_name": "Excessive laws are worse than useless. Many new laws confer legitimacy on what common sense would recognize as crimes.", "_id": 2572, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2572",  "values": ["Excessive laws are worse than useless. Many new laws confer legitimacy on what common sense would recognize as crimes.", "Joseph Sobran", "government"]},
{"_name": "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.", "_id": 2573, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2573",  "values": ["Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.", "Dennis Wholey", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.", "_id": 2574, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2574",  "values": ["Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.", "Thomas Jefferson", "government"]},
{"_name": "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.", "_id": 2575, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2575",  "values": ["Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.", "Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice", "government"]},
{"_name": "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.", "_id": 2576, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2576",  "values": ["Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.", "Barry Goldwater", "government"]},
{"_name": "Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored.", "_id": 2577, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2577",  "values": ["Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored.", "Aldous Huxley", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.", "_id": 2578, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2578",  "values": ["Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.", "_id": 2579, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2579",  "values": ["Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.", "Richard Mitchell", "education"]},
{"_name": "Fear is the foundation of most governments.", "_id": 2580, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2580",  "values": ["Fear is the foundation of most governments.", "John Adams", "government"]},
{"_name": "Federal law is invariably carried to its most ludicrous extreme.", "_id": 2581, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2581",  "values": ["Federal law is invariably carried to its most ludicrous extreme.", "Diane Alden", "government"]},
{"_name": "Few arguments in international diplomacy are so convincing as a convincing victory.", "_id": 2582, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2582",  "values": ["Few arguments in international diplomacy are so convincing as a convincing victory.", "Paul Greenberg", "history"]},
{"_name": "Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.", "_id": 2583, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2583",  "values": ["Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.", "Sallust", "government"]},
{"_name": "Fifty-odd years ago [circa 1930] astrology was commonly regarded as a ridiculous former superstition, one all but a tiny minority had outgrown. It is now the orthodoxy of many, possibly a majority. This pathological change parallels the decay of public education.", "_id": 2584, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2584",  "values": ["Fifty-odd years ago [circa 1930] astrology was commonly regarded as a ridiculous former superstition, one all but a tiny minority had outgrown. It is now the orthodoxy of many, possibly a majority. This pathological change parallels the decay of public education.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "education"]},
{"_name": "For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.", "_id": 2585, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2585",  "values": ["For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.", "Enoch Powell", "politics"]},
{"_name": "For all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean—'spaceship.'", "_id": 6162, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=6162",  "values": ["For all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean—'spaceship.'", "Arthur C. Clarke", "space"]},
{"_name": "For every complex problem there is a solution which is straightforward, simple, and wrong.", "_id": 2586, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2586",  "values": ["For every complex problem there is a solution which is straightforward, simple, and wrong.", "H.L. Mencken", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "For evidence that private property rather than democracy is the key to prosperity and freedom, I point to India and Hong Kong. In India the electoral franchise is wide and elections have long been regular, but property rights are weak. For most of the post-World War II era, in contrast, Hong Kong had no democracy, but property rights there have been among the strongest the world has ever seen. Indians are poor and shackled by a massively corrupt state; the people of Hong Kong are wealthy and free. Private property, not democracy, is the great guarantor of prosperity and liberty. And because it decentralizes power, it safeguards us from madmen with utopian hallucinations.", "_id": 2587, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2587",  "values": ["For evidence that private property rather than democracy is the key to prosperity and freedom, I point to India and Hong Kong. In India the electoral franchise is wide and elections have long been regular, but property rights are weak. For most of the post-World War II era, in contrast, Hong Kong had no democracy, but property rights there have been among the strongest the world has ever seen. Indians are poor and shackled by a massively corrupt state; the people of Hong Kong are wealthy and free. Private property, not democracy, is the great guarantor of prosperity and liberty. And because it decentralizes power, it safeguards us from madmen with utopian hallucinations.", "Thomas Sowell", "government"]},
{"_name": "For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.", "_id": 8131, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=8131",  "values": ["For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "government"]},
{"_name": "Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.", "_id": 2588, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2588",  "values": ["Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.", "Thomas Sowell", "government"]},
{"_name": "Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.", "_id": 2589, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2589",  "values": ["Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.", "Douglas Casey", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Forgive everybody everything everyday.", "_id": 2590, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2590",  "values": ["Forgive everybody everything everyday.", "Dulles", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Four-fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.", "_id": 2591, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2591",  "values": ["Four-fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.", "Calvin Coolidge", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.", "_id": 2592, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2592",  "values": ["Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.", "Thomas Sowell", "government"]},
{"_name": "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free", "_id": 4341, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=4341",  "values": ["Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free", "Ronald Reagan", "government"]},
{"_name": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", "_id": 2593, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2593",  "values": ["Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", "Mahatma Gandhi", "government"]},
{"_name": "Freedom is something that cannot be passed on in the blood stream, or genetically. And it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. Every generation has to learn how to protect and defend it, or it’s gone and gone for a long, long time.", "_id": 7241, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=7241",  "values": ["Freedom is something that cannot be passed on in the blood stream, or genetically. And it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. Every generation has to learn how to protect and defend it, or it’s gone and gone for a long, long time.", "Ronald Reagan", "government"]},
{"_name": "From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day. From his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.", "_id": 2594, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2594",  "values": ["From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day. From his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.", "Thomas A. Edison", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - 'There is no substitute for victory!'", "_id": 2595, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2595",  "values": ["From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - 'There is no substitute for victory!'", "Gen. Douglas MacArthur", "history"]},
{"_name": "Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA. Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.", "_id": 2596, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2596",  "values": ["Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA. Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.", "Heinrich Himmler", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "Give a man the secure possession of bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it to a desert... The magic of property turns sand into gold.", "_id": 2597, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2597",  "values": ["Give a man the secure possession of bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it to a desert... The magic of property turns sand into gold.", "Arthur Young", "politics"]},
{"_name": "Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.", "_id": 2598, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2598",  "values": ["Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.", "J. C. Penney", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.", "_id": 5275, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5275",  "values": ["Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.", "H.L. Mencken", "government"]},
{"_name": "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.", "_id": 2599, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2599",  "values": ["Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.", "P.J. O'Rourke", "government"]},
{"_name": "God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.", "_id": 2601, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2601",  "values": ["God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.", "Daniel Webster", "government"]},
{"_name": "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion.", "_id": 2602, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2602",  "values": ["Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion.", "Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense", "humor"]},
{"_name": "Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern.", "_id": 2603, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2603",  "values": ["Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern.", "Daniel Webster", "government"]},
{"_name": "Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.", "_id": 2604, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2604",  "values": ["Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.", "Fred Brooks", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Government by the votes of illiterate and uneducated people isn't guaranteed to be good government or even rational government.", "_id": 6634, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=6634",  "values": ["Government by the votes of illiterate and uneducated people isn't guaranteed to be good government or even rational government.", "Jerry Pournelle", "government"]},
{"_name": "Government expands to absorb revenue... and then some.", "_id": 2605, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2605",  "values": ["Government expands to absorb revenue... and then some.", "Tom Wicker", "government"]},
{"_name": "Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.", "_id": 5257, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5257",  "values": ["Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.", "H.L. Mencken", "government"]},
{"_name": "Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatans, quacks, and hustlers.", "_id": 2606, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2606",  "values": ["Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatans, quacks, and hustlers.", "Dr. Walter Williams", "government"]},
{"_name": "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.", "_id": 2607, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2607",  "values": ["Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.", "George Washington", "government"]},
{"_name": "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.", "_id": 2608, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2608",  "values": ["Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.", "Ronald Reagan", "government"]},
{"_name": "Greed is good.", "_id": 2609, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2609",  "values": ["Greed is good.", "Gordon Gekko", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.", "_id": 2610, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2610",  "values": ["Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.", "Patrick Henry", "government"]},
{"_name": "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.", "_id": 2611, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2611",  "values": ["Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.", "Lois McMaster Bujold", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.", "_id": 5337, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5337",  "values": ["Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.", null, "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "Half the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't want to do harm—but the harm does not interest them . . . or they do not see it . . . because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.", "_id": 5053, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5053",  "values": ["Half the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't want to do harm—but the harm does not interest them . . . or they do not see it . . . because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.", "T.S. Eliot", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.", "_id": 5266, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5266",  "values": ["Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.", "H.L. Mencken", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.", "_id": 2612, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2612",  "values": ["He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.", "John McCarthy", "science"]},
{"_name": "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.", "_id": 2613, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2613",  "values": ["He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.", "Samuel Johnson", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Helping the poor through the government is like feeding the sparrows through cows.", "_id": 2614, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2614",  "values": ["Helping the poor through the government is like feeding the sparrows through cows.", "Walter Williams", "government"]},
{"_name": "Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in thier deaths.\"", "_id": 2615, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2615",  "values": ["Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in thier deaths.\"", "James Madison", "government"]},
{"_name": "Henry Ford didn't invent automobiles. In 1902, at least 50 US firms manufactured and sold cars mostly to wealthy customers as high end luxuries. ...Henry Ford famously said, 'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.'", "_id": 2616, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2616",  "values": ["Henry Ford didn't invent automobiles. In 1902, at least 50 US firms manufactured and sold cars mostly to wealthy customers as high end luxuries. ...Henry Ford famously said, 'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.'", null, "business"]},
{"_name": "Here in America we are descended in blood and spirit from revolutionists and rebels; men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.", "_id": 2617, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2617",  "values": ["Here in America we are descended in blood and spirit from revolutionists and rebels; men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.", "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "politics"]},
{"_name": "High tax rates don't redistribute income; they redistribute people.", "_id": 2618, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2618",  "values": ["High tax rates don't redistribute income; they redistribute people.", "George Gilder", "government"]},
{"_name": "High taxes, sometimes by diminishing the consumption of the taxed commodities, and sometimes by encouraging smuggling, frequently afford a smaller revenue to government than what might be drawn from more moderate taxes.", "_id": 2619, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2619",  "values": ["High taxes, sometimes by diminishing the consumption of the taxed commodities, and sometimes by encouraging smuggling, frequently afford a smaller revenue to government than what might be drawn from more moderate taxes.", "Adam Smith", "government"]},
{"_name": "Hire the people you trust, people who are passionate about their job, passionate about what they’re doing. Just leave them alone, and they’ll get the job done.", "_id": 6811, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=6811",  "values": ["Hire the people you trust, people who are passionate about their job, passionate about what they’re doing. Just leave them alone, and they’ll get the job done.", "Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia apparel", "advice"]},
{"_name": "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.", "_id": 2620, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2620",  "values": ["History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.", "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "government"]},
{"_name": "History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells 'Why can't you remember anything I tell you?' and lets fly with a club.", "_id": 2621, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2621",  "values": ["History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells 'Why can't you remember anything I tell you?' and lets fly with a club.", "John W. Campbell", "history"]},
{"_name": "History is more likely to repeat itself when you ask it to.", "_id": 2622, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2622",  "values": ["History is more likely to repeat itself when you ask it to.", "Peggy Noonan", "history"]},
{"_name": "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.", "_id": 2623, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2623",  "values": ["History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.", "Abba Eban", "history"]},
{"_name": "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.", "_id": 2624, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2624",  "values": ["History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.", "Winston Churchill", "history"]},
{"_name": "History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.", "_id": 2625, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2625",  "values": ["History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.", "Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut", "space"]},
{"_name": "Hope is not a strategy.", "_id": 2626, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2626",  "values": ["Hope is not a strategy.", "Rick Page", "advice"]},
{"_name": "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.", "_id": 2627, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2627",  "values": ["How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.", "Abraham Lincoln", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.", "_id": 2628, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2628",  "values": ["How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "advice"]},
{"_name": "Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.", "_id": 2629, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2629",  "values": ["Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.", "James Thurber", "humor"]},
{"_name": "Hydrazine is flammable, explosive, toxic, corrosive, carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic.", "_id": 2630, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2630",  "values": ["Hydrazine is flammable, explosive, toxic, corrosive, carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic.", null, "space"]},
{"_name": "I always knew I'd live to see the first man walk on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last.", "_id": 5334, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5334",  "values": ["I always knew I'd live to see the first man walk on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last.", "Jerry Pournelle", "space"]},
{"_name": "I am not robbed by people who have more money than I. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.", "_id": 2631, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2631",  "values": ["I am not robbed by people who have more money than I. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.", "Cal Thomas", "government"]},
{"_name": "I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.", "_id": 2632, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2632",  "values": ["I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.", "Abraham Lincoln", "government"]},
{"_name": "I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.", "_id": 2633, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2633",  "values": ["I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.", "H.L. Mencken", "government"]},
{"_name": "I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.", "_id": 2634, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2634",  "values": ["I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.", "Neil Armstrong", "humor"]},
{"_name": "I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. To approve such spending would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.", "_id": 2636, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2636",  "values": ["I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. To approve such spending would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.", "President Franklin Pierce", "government"]},
{"_name": "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which grant[s] a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.", "_id": 2637, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2637",  "values": ["I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which grant[s] a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.", "James Madison, 1794", "government"]},
{"_name": "I can't think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.", "_id": 2635, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2635",  "values": ["I can't think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.", "Neal Boortz", "government"]},
{"_name": "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.", "_id": 2638, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2638",  "values": ["I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.", "Thomas Jefferson", "government"]},
{"_name": "I do not represent public opinion; I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public, and the public's opinion of these interests.", "_id": 2639, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2639",  "values": ["I do not represent public opinion; I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public, and the public's opinion of these interests.", "Theodore Roosevelt", "politics"]},
{"_name": "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.", "_id": 4352, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=4352",  "values": ["I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.", "Bill Cosby", "advice"]},
{"_name": "I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles.", "_id": 2640, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2640",  "values": ["I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles.", "Joseph Newcomer", "humor"]},
{"_name": "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.", "_id": 2641, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2641",  "values": ["I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.", "Grover Norquist", "government"]},
{"_name": "I fear FASB is beginning to stand for 'Flatten All Startup Businesses.'", "_id": 2642, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2642",  "values": ["I fear FASB is beginning to stand for 'Flatten All Startup Businesses.'", "Representative Richard H. Baker (R-La.)", "business"]},
{"_name": "I have a basic rule about art. If I can duplicate it, it ain't art.", "_id": 2643, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2643",  "values": ["I have a basic rule about art. If I can duplicate it, it ain't art.", "Neal Boortz", "humor"]},
{"_name": "I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, two men are called a Law Firm, and three or more are called a Congress.", "_id": 2644, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2644",  "values": ["I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, two men are called a Law Firm, and three or more are called a Congress.", "John Adams", "government"]},
{"_name": "I have never yet met an MBA who cannot analyze a company to the point where it’s clearly not worth investing in.", "_id": 5246, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5246",  "values": ["I have never yet met an MBA who cannot analyze a company to the point where it’s clearly not worth investing in.", "George Doriot, founder of the first venture capital firm in 1947", "business"]},
{"_name": "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.", "_id": 2645, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2645",  "values": ["I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.", "Thomas A. Edison", "advice"]},
{"_name": "I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.", "_id": 5243, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5243",  "values": ["I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.", "Ronald Reagan", "government"]},
{"_name": "I hope we win the war on terrorism in time for people to remember what freedom was like...", "_id": 2646, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2646",  "values": ["I hope we win the war on terrorism in time for people to remember what freedom was like...", "Randall Clague", "government"]},
{"_name": "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.", "_id": 2647, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2647",  "values": ["I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.", "U.S. Grant", "government"]},
{"_name": "I mean, no matter what else happens, look at the competition and it can't help but inspire optimism.", "_id": 2648, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2648",  "values": ["I mean, no matter what else happens, look at the competition and it can't help but inspire optimism.", "Henry Vanderbilt", "business"]},
{"_name": "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.", "_id": 2649, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2649",  "values": ["I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.", "Abraham Lincoln", "history"]},
{"_name": "I suspect that our race's tragedy has been played endless times. It may be that an intelligent race has to expand right up to its disaster point to achieve what is needed to break out of its planet and reach for the stars. It may always--or almost always--be a photo finish, with the outcome uncertain to the last moment.", "_id": 2650, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2650",  "values": ["I suspect that our race's tragedy has been played endless times. It may be that an intelligent race has to expand right up to its disaster point to achieve what is needed to break out of its planet and reach for the stars. It may always--or almost always--be a photo finish, with the outcome uncertain to the last moment.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "space"]},
{"_name": "I try to *only* ridicule people whose efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.", "_id": 2651, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2651",  "values": ["I try to *only* ridicule people whose efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.", "P.J. O'Rourke", "history"]},
{"_name": "I used to dream of the day when my computer would be as easy to use as my mobile phone. It has happened, I no longer know how to use my phone.", "_id": 5382, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5382",  "values": ["I used to dream of the day when my computer would be as easy to use as my mobile phone. It has happened, I no longer know how to use my phone.", "Bjorn Stroustrup, the inventor of C++", "computers"]},
{"_name": "I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.", "_id": 2652, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2652",  "values": ["I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.", "Dr. Thomas Sowell", "politics"]},
{"_name": "I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.", "_id": 2653, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2653",  "values": ["I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.", "William F. Buckley Jr.", "government"]},
{"_name": "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.", "_id": 2654, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2654",  "values": ["I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.", "Thomas Jefferson", "government"]},
{"_name": "I would rather have a German division in front of me, than a French division behind me.", "_id": 2655, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2655",  "values": ["I would rather have a German division in front of me, than a French division behind me.", "Gen. George S. Patton", "history"]},
{"_name": "I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors lied, than that stones fell from the sky.", "_id": 2656, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2656",  "values": ["I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors lied, than that stones fell from the sky.", "Thomas Jefferson, 1807, after hearing an eyewitness report of falling meteorites.", "science"]},
{"_name": "Ideas are more powerful than guns. If we don't let our people have guns, why should we let them have ideas?", "_id": 2659, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2659",  "values": ["Ideas are more powerful than guns. If we don't let our people have guns, why should we let them have ideas?", "Josef Stalin", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was and never will be.", "_id": 2660, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2660",  "values": ["If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was and never will be.", "Thomas Jefferson", "government"]},
{"_name": "If a nation or an individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.", "_id": 2661, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2661",  "values": ["If a nation or an individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.", "W. Somerset Maugham", "government"]},
{"_name": "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.", "_id": 2662, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2662",  "values": ["If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.", "John Kenneth Galbraith", "humor"]},
{"_name": "If all of us tried to go back-to-nature, most of us would starve rather quickly. These back-to-nature freaks can't do arithmetic.", "_id": 2663, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2663",  "values": ["If all of us tried to go back-to-nature, most of us would starve rather quickly. These back-to-nature freaks can't do arithmetic.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "politics"]},
{"_name": "If all the money spent on ramps, bus elevators, and the like in an attempt to make the world 'wheelchair accessible' had been spent on neurological research, no one would need ramps and elevators.", "_id": 2664, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2664",  "values": ["If all the money spent on ramps, bus elevators, and the like in an attempt to make the world 'wheelchair accessible' had been spent on neurological research, no one would need ramps and elevators.", "L. Neil Smith", "science"]},
{"_name": "If an armed lunatic takes over my airplane, I am fundamentally not interested in handgun-control rhetoric. What I am concerned with is just one thing: stepping over a dead hijacker as I exit my safely-landed airplane.", "_id": 2665, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2665",  "values": ["If an armed lunatic takes over my airplane, I am fundamentally not interested in handgun-control rhetoric. What I am concerned with is just one thing: stepping over a dead hijacker as I exit my safely-landed airplane.", "Kathleen Parker", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.", "_id": 2666, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2666",  "values": ["If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.", "A Nation at Risk, 1983", "education"]},
{"_name": "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.", "_id": 2667, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2667",  "values": ["If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.", "Steven Wright", "humor"]},
{"_name": "If Columbus had waited for decent ships we'd all still be in Europe. A man has to take some chances or he'll never get anywhere.", "_id": 2668, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2668",  "values": ["If Columbus had waited for decent ships we'd all still be in Europe. A man has to take some chances or he'll never get anywhere.", "Robert A. Heinlein", "advice"]},
{"_name": "If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men... the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.", "_id": 2669, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2669",  "values": ["If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men... the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.", "Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878", "government"]},
{"_name": "If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking.", "_id": 2670, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2670",  "values": ["If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking.", "Gen. George S. Patton", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "If everything's under control, you're going too slow.", "_id": 2671, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2671",  "values": ["If everything's under control, you're going too slow.", "Mario Andretti", "advice"]},
{"_name": "If financial institutions are deemed too big and too complex to fail, their managers will have an incentive to make them big and complex.", "_id": 6957, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=6957",  "values": ["If financial institutions are deemed too big and too complex to fail, their managers will have an incentive to make them big and complex.", "The Economist, August 9, 2008", "business"]},
{"_name": "If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns.", "_id": 2672, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2672",  "values": ["If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns.", "Edward Abbey", "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.", "_id": 5338, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=5338",  "values": ["If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.", null, "2nd amendment"]},
{"_name": "If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.", "_id": 2673, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2673",  "values": ["If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.", "Ludwig von Mises", "politics"]},
{"_name": "If Howard Dean was living back [when Paul Revere came riding through] he would have yelled out the window, 'Shut up I'm trying to get some sleep in here!' It's a disgrace.", "_id": 2674, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2674",  "values": ["If Howard Dean was living back [when Paul Revere came riding through] he would have yelled out the window, 'Shut up I'm trying to get some sleep in here!' It's a disgrace.", "Sen. Zell Miller", "government"]},
{"_name": "If it's a hobby for us and a job for you, then why are you doing such a shoddy job?", "_id": 2675, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2675",  "values": ["If it's a hobby for us and a job for you, then why are you doing such a shoddy job?", "Linus Torvalds to Microsoft", "computers"]},
{"_name": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", "_id": 2676, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2676",  "values": ["If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", "J.R.R. Tolkien", "advice"]},
{"_name": "If one person has a right to something he didn't produce, simultaneously and of necessity it means that some other person does not have right to something he did produce. That's because, since there's no Santa Claus or Tooth Fairy, in order for government to give one American a dollar, it must, through intimidation, threats and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. I'd like to hear the moral argument for taking what belongs to one person to give to another person.", "_id": 2677, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2677",  "values": ["If one person has a right to something he didn't produce, simultaneously and of necessity it means that some other person does not have right to something he did produce. That's because, since there's no Santa Claus or Tooth Fairy, in order for government to give one American a dollar, it must, through intimidation, threats and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. I'd like to hear the moral argument for taking what belongs to one person to give to another person.", "Walter Williams", "government"]},
{"_name": "If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward then we are a sorry lot indeed.", "_id": 2678, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2678",  "values": ["If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward then we are a sorry lot indeed.", "Albert Einstein", "philosophy"]},
{"_name": "If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.", "_id": 2679, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2679",  "values": ["If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.", "Kelvin Throop", "government"]},
{"_name": "If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.", "_id": 2680, "_link": "http://stephenfleming.dabbledb.com/dabble/quotationdatabase?view=4843&entry=2680",  "values": ["If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.", "Lyall Watson", "science"]},
{"_name": "If the Constitution becomes a 'living document' then it will mean wh