An honest man can never be outdone in courtesy. A sensual life is a miserable life. The contempt of death makes all the miseries of life easy to us. -Taken…
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In fact, capitalists have no objection to federal meddling. They just want it to be such meddling as puts money in their pockets. Nothing more. Ever.–Fred Reed The market is…
These Haters seem to want to destroy anything and anyone they can tie to slavery. . . . Let’s bulldoze the Washington monument and the Jefferson Memorial.–Henry Eversole I just…
A pioneer creates a new country from foresight, courage, and hard work. An immigrant takes advantage of what the pioneer has created. I suppose now we really are “a nation…
I am not a Catholic, but I just have to admire all of this Pope’s meticulously photographed and internationally broadcast acts of humility.–Conservative Pundit Do you think the Civil Rights…
I believe that the American South, the last bastion of Christianity in the West, will have a special role in the final chapter of history.–Anne Wilson Smith I just may…
Moving from arrogance to masochism, Europeans have endeavoured to chase away their old feelings of ethnocentrism , all the while flattering similar sentiments in other races and cultures. Great efforts…
The Western intellectual knows, or rather thinks he knows, what others do not. He rarely considers reality as such. . . . He thinks in terms of concepts and abstract…
In a PC world, humor is a capital offense. –Taki Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we chose wisely from life’s great stores. –Irene…
Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist logrolling. –John Derbyshire A lie can travel half way around the world while truth is still putting…
“My name’s Anderson. They call me Bloody Bill. Going to Kansas to kill Red Legs. Want to come along?” Clint Eastwood replies: “I reckon I will.” –“The Outlaw Josey Wales” The…
A friend’s encounter with a clergyman: His mission, he says, is Social Justice. Our South Carolina governor, when she removed the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, had “a Jesus…
The death of the spirit is the price of progress. –Eric Voegelin The Athenians know what is right, but will not do it. –Cicero Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?…
Totalitarianism, defined as the existential rule of Gnostic activists, is the end form of progressive civilization.–Eric Voegelin The South is the foe to Northern industry—to our mines, our manufactures, and…
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with an average voter — Winston Churchill Democracy is the worst form of government, except for every other kind that has…
The further a society strays from the truth, the more it hates people who tell it. –George Orwell When the South lost we all lost. –historian Paul Hoar (New England-born)…
The main problem with America today is the increasing scarcity of Americans. –Clyde Wilson The motive of those who have protested against the extension of slavery has always been concern…
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.–Jefferson When did the South ever lay its hand…
A man has only got room for one oath at a time. I gave mine to the Confederate States of America. –John Wayne, “The Searchers” Going back is the quickest…
Wherever you bluebellies go you cause trouble. . . . Yankees always lie. –Clint Eastwood, “Ambush at Cimarron Pass,” 1958. For every right wing lunatic in a cabin in Idaho,…
It has been justly stated by a British writer that the power to make a small piece of paper, not worth one cent, by the inscribing of a few names,…
They call it progress, but they don’t say where it is going. –Faulkner Nothing occurs except the heaping up of tyranny and insult from Washington by the meanest most cowardly…
I have seen enough of publick men to come to the conclusion, that there are few, indeed, whose attachment to self is not stronger, than their patriotism and their friendship….
South Carolina will preserve its sovereignty, or be buried beneath its ruins. –Governor Robert Y. Hayne, 1832 I have lived too long not to know how reluctantly the clearest proposition…
Experience has taught me, that in politicks, it is much more easy to gain the battle, than to reap its fruits. –Calhoun I had not realized how offensive the plain…
It has been a rule with me, from which I have rarely departed, to pass in silence the misrepresentations to which I have been subject, in the discharge of my…
What are people for? –Wendell Berry I do not view politicks as a scramble between eminent men; but as a science by which the lasting interest of the country…
It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals to preserve liberty. It can only be effected by the people themselves; by their intelligence, virtue, courage, and…
It is the very genius of a consolidated Government to elevate one portion of the Community, while it corrupts the other. –Calhoun Generally, however, the secession movement was a remarkable…
The Constitutional power of the President never was or could be formidable, unless it was accompanied by a Congress which was prepared to corrupt the Constitution. –Calhoun Devolution is not…
When did the South ever lay its hand on the North? –Calhoun The body of a Confederate soldier was discovered near here a few days ago. I think I will…
This essay originally appeared on Fred Reed’s website and is reprinted here by permission. My sins creep up on me, sent by the Devil, and beset me by surprise. I…
A good dog needs no pedigree, and if a dog ain’t any good, a pedigree don’t help him none. –Havilah Babcock Southerners are the world’s worst record-keepers. –Havilah Babcock It…
Here’s another one of those things about our lives controlled by Yankees – ice quantity. Southerners love our drinks to be cold and iced to perfection. That’s why we call…
“Watch what you’re doing – you never know who’s watching you.” I can still hear my mama say that. No, literally – she still says that to me. I have…
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