If delay is rewarded, delay will be supplied.

He who yields the calendar yields the contest.

If there be two things known by Virginians, as descendants of the British yet among the first to act for U.S. Independence, those are: queue and vote.

So goes the way of a party.

Factions are useful servants but dangerous masters; they promise unity and often demand obedience.

When devotion outweighs discernment, the citizen becomes a follower, and the republic pays the price.

Indeed, when accounts differ so quickly, the public is owed explanation, not enlargement of the quarrel.

If misconduct is alleged, the remedy lies not in departure, but in full accounting. Leaving office is not the same as answering for it.

When responsibility departs as swiftly as power, suspicion is left to linger.

An army’s strength is in the health of soldiers.

It is strange to spare a small precaution and hazard a great loss.

Diseases respect neither rank nor resolve; prevention is often the least costly defense.

Past lessons written in suffering are poor guides only to those who refuse to read them.

Spine in public service is known by its resistance to pressure, not its inclination toward it.

To doubt well-proved events is to invite doubt in one’s own decisions thereafter.

Fidelity to facts is the first duty of any who would govern money.

Accusations of theft are easily made; proofs are harder won and should be required in equal measure.

If the bottom is to be avoided, it is best done by raising standards, not by matching the lowest maneuver.

Fairness cannot be secured by each side rewriting it in turn.

It's a terrible state of the Republic when the Health Secretary's appearance needs a Surgeon General's warning.

I suppose that leaves the door open for Kevin Warsh to be his finger, hand, string, rod, or shadow puppet.

Independence in a steward of credit is not a luxury; it is the guardrail against our own impatience.

When power over money and interest is gathered too near ambition, temptation does the rest.

A pliant Fed may please today and punish tomorrow.

Independence in a steward of credit is not a luxury; it is the guardrail against our own impatience.

When power over money and interest is gathered too near ambition, temptation does the rest.

A pliant Fed may please today and punish tomorrow.

A strait once closed becomes a lever indeed—but one that may move more than its author intends.

When ends are proclaimed certain and means indefinite, prudence is the first casualty.

Success proclaimed in advance is often debt collected later.

When policy grows arbitrary, profit finds its favorites, while burden finds the many.

A scheme that harms the small and restores the great may be called many things, but seldom justice.

The value of a nation is not to be reckoned in its index alone, nor secured by unsettling the world beyond it.

A market may rise by rumor, but a war falls upon men.

Indeed, interest will sometimes disguise itself as conviction, yet the mask rarely fits for long.

To purge in the twilight of an election is to risk striking the innocent with the guilty.

Suspicion founded on stale records is a poor instrument with which to cut living rights.

Better a patient list than a hasty injustice.

If a house be called unsound by two dozen carpenters, it is poor comfort that the owner alone insists it stands firm.

When a cause is weak, comparison is made its crutch.

To answer a question of war with a statistic of crime is not argument, but evasion dressed as concern.

The suffering of one city should not be employed to justify the suffering of another.

When a cause is weak, comparison is made its crutch.

To answer a question of war with a statistic of crime is not argument, but evasion dressed as concern.

The suffering of one city should not be employed to justify the suffering of another.

When belief is made to follow allegiance, it ceases to guide.

One may change their profession of faith, but ought not pretend the change was required rather than chosen.

When faith yields to politics, it is politics that has been worshipped all along.

Thank you, @mblue.bsky.social, for including me in such a diverse and equitable group of earthlings! Happy Earth Week!

The hand that pays is seldom the hand that is repaid in full.

Strategy requires not only will, but understanding. Where the latter is absent, the former becomes a danger to its own cause.

To engage in serious conflict without mastering its first principles is to invite instruction from the enemy at great expense.

Thank you, Sassy (@filosia.bsky.social), for this wonderful Super Sunday Pack! So many amazing new and old friends!

Nothing is made “swimming” by drowning the People.

When a grave matter is treated lightly, one must inquire whether the speaker misunderstands it—or merely wishes others to.

Nothing is made “swimming” by drowning the People.

When a grave matter is treated lightly, one must inquire whether the speaker misunderstands it—or merely wishes others to.

Indeed, necessities grow dear without consulting our preferences, and seldom return by invitation alone.

Drunkenness in a private citizen is a misfortune; in a public guardian, it is a hazard. When the Nation’s business must wait upon a man’s recovery from his own excess, the question is not manners but fitness.

Just because Caitlyn Jenner is an objectively horrible person doesn’t mean it’s okay to deadname her. Please don’t.