A. Championship Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1
Speaker 1
"It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder." --— Frédéric Bastiat
"You shouldn't have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to die.” --— Body composter Tim Evans
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” --— Eric HofferSpeaker 2
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” --— Frank Zappa
"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it." --— Ernst Fischer
“If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.” --— John AdamsSpeaker 3
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. --Albert Camus
Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
“Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination.” --— Walter E. WilliamsSpeaker 4
“The executive power is properly the government; the laws are a dead letter until an administration begins to carry them into execution.” --— John Adams
“One man’s inflexibility is another man’s adherence to principle. Whether intransigence is virtue or vice often depends on principle or stands on ceremony.” --— Jeff Deist
"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.” --— George Bernard ShawSpeaker 5
Wages are not paid for labor expended, but for the achievements of labor, which differ widely in quality and quantity. --Ludwig von Mises
“Every nation, whether rich or poor, powerful or feeble, can at any hour once again adopt the gold standard.” --— Ludwig von Mises
"You never know how fast you're going until you fall off." --— Surfer and filmmaker, Bruce BrownSpeaker 6
Imagination decides everything. --Blaise Pascal
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults --Benjamin Franklin
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. --Mark TwainSpeaker 7
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. --Aristotle
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. --Ashton Kutcher
Whatever you are, be a good one. --Abraham Lincoln
Round 2
Speaker 1
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Necessity never made a good bargain. --Benjamin Franklin
Experience teaches only the teachable. --Aldous HuxleySpeaker 2
“All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.” --— Ludwig von Mises
"When they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball, and jazz music. They're the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created.” --— Gerald Early
Education is the mother of leadership.Speaker 3
Never tell me the odds. --Han Solo, The Empire Strikes Back
“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” --— Mary Kay Ash
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. --George WashingtonSpeaker 4
I have approximate knowledge of many things. --Adventure Time
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. --David G. Allen
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles --Mark TwainSpeaker 5
Can anybody be happy if they aren’t free? --Beauty and the Beast
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." --— Frédéric Bastiat
"Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic.” --— Bumper StickerSpeaker 6
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. --James Madison
"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.” --— George Bernard Shaw
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. --Martin Luther King, Jr.Speaker 7
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. --Brian Tracy
“It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.” --— Frank Zappa
Honey, you never looked better
Round 3
Speaker 1
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. --Hermann Hesse
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. --Harry S. TrumanSpeaker 2
“We are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.” --— Steven Soderbergh
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended. --Benjamin Franklin
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.Speaker 3
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. --Cesar Chave
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. --Benjamin Franklin
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.Speaker 4
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
“Everyone is the most important person in the world—at least to that one person." --— Ben Folds
It is not strange… to mistake change for progress --Millard FillmoreSpeaker 5
“Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.” --— Thomas Sowell
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. --Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” --— Ingrid BergmanSpeaker 6
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. --Albert Einstein
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. --Alexander Alekhine
Sometimes you gotta get through your fear to see the beauty on the other sideSpeaker 7
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. --John J Pershing
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. --Donald Rumsfeld
I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay. --Bob Dylan
Elim 1
Speaker 1
"The words of the world are the life of the world. It is the speech of truth in its true solitude: a nature that is created in what it says.” --— Wallace Stevens
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. --Abraham Lincoln
There is no such thing as part freedom.Speaker 2
Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. --Fred Rogers
“If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you’re Rembrandt or not.” --— Adam Carolla
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. --AeschylusSpeaker 3
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. --Aldous Huxley
"Cynics say a lot of things that sound true because they appeal to the defeatist inside us.” --— Darryl Strawberry
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.” --— George Bernard ShawSpeaker 4
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. --Andy Warhol
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." --— Rosa Luxemburg
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. --Alexis de TocquevilleSpeaker 5
Let love guide your actions --Brother Bear
Force always attracts men of low morality. --Albert Einstein
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.Speaker 6
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles. --Charles Chaplin
"Society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.” --— Thomas Paine
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? --Benjamin DisraeliSpeaker 7
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential.
Let each man exercise the art he knows. --Aristophanes
"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!” --— Herman Melville