Jacob Hedlund

“I found I had learned more from defeats than from victories. All that I wanted was a life in which I had just one more victory than defeat”
― Richard Nixon

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

“We live in an ordered universe and the natural world is governed by certain principles. To survive and prosper, people must understand and respect those principles. For example, Newton’s third law is that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. (We ignore Newton’s laws at our own peril.)”
― Charles Koch

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler