Thomas Lehon

Thomas B. Lehon (1875-1948) was an American businessman. He founded the Lehon Company, a roofing and roofing products company, in Chicago, Illinois, in 1905.

The sweetness of low price never equals the bitterness of poor quality.

Catalogue of Copyright Entries, 1906

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them.

Bernard Shaw

Imagination is a good servant, but a bad master.

Unknown

The spiritual reading of a text must start with its literal sense. Otherwise we can easily make the text say what we think is convenient, useful for confirming us in our previous decisions, suited to our own patterns of thought.

Francis (Pope)

The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.

Douglas Merrill

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Horace

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

Mignon McLaughlin

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great. . . .

Jesus Christ

Congress shall make no law respecting . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

U.S. Constitution

[You] shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born.

Catholic Church

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Bernard Shaw

[A republic] differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

Fisher Ames

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Abraham Lincoln

Who but yourself can tell you if you are beautiful or ugly within?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is . . . a close bond and necessary relation between . . . freedom and productive industry. This proposition is generally true of all nations, but especially of democratic nations.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections.

Teddy Roosevelt

Upon the whole, I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

G. K. Chesterton

Christianity . . . divided the crime from the criminal. The criminal we must forgive unto seventy times seven. The crime we must not forgive at all.

G. K. Chesterton

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

International trade is not a zero-sum contest. Both sides must gain or it would make no sense to continue trading.

Thomas Sowell

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Ambrose Bierce

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