Tony's Garden

“If you want to understand how to fix a problem in the world, you have to ask who is profiting from the problem. Not who is suffering from it.” ― Amos Nelson Wilson 1562 Hans Leo Hassler, German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, Cantate Domino. 1739 Michel Delalande, French…

“Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” ― Ambrose Bierce 1726 Karl Kohaut, Austrian composer and lutenist. Concerto per il liuto, due violini & violoncello F-dur. 1728 Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist. 1873 Lee De Forest, American inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube) 1900 Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (rocket engines…

“If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’ More sad are these we daily see:‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be.” ― Bret Harte 1836 Bret Harte, American author. 1918 Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer.  West Side Story – Prologue 1938 Frederick Forsyth, British author. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The…

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.” ― Voltaire 1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter 1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) 1591 Robert Herrick, English poet. 1725 Johann Balthasar Kehl, German composer. So gehst du dann, mein Jesu! hin 1733 David Traugott Nicolai, German composer. 1759 William Wilberforce, British politician,…

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” ― Ludwig von Mises 1849 William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor. 1869 Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and novelist. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth RELATED: Collateral…

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” ― Leo Tolstoy 1681 Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer. Douxiéme Suitte op.3, and Cinquième suite in E minor, and Air en Musette for oboe and continuo 1771 Henry Maudslay, English inventor of the metal lathe.…

“It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling.” ― Murray N. Rothbard 1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter 1879 Claude Grahame-White, early aviation pioneer 1967 Stéphane Charbonnier, editor of the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. 1973 Sergey Brin, American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist MISCELLANY: HE’S NOT WRONG.…

“The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have…

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” ― Adam Smith 1580 Pierre Vernier, French mathematician, inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements 1621 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter 1808 James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam hammer 1824 Georg Goltermann, German cellist and composer. Rêverie op. 54,…

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.” ― Thomas Paine 1750  Antonio Salieri, Italian composer…