“No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.” MenWayMayDoeReasonDonePastDesireEvilHe ManRegardNotionPunishmentRationalBeastFuryUndoneUnreasonableDoersEvil DoersPast Wrongs Author:Plato
“The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.” IfsTwoPastPoliticsGivenEconomyTroubleEconomicPolicySettingRationalSettingsLiberalismReservesFederal ReserveEconomic PolicySteering Author:Wright Patman
“A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.” ShouldPastLeftKindnessRationalDevicesHostGuestsHospitalityNeglectedPastures Book:Goose-quill Papers Source: Goose-quill Papers
“Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.” PastPurposeWorthyRationalProgressionTimes Past Book:Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed Source: Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed