I am spending the day going through many old CD/DVD backups, and found this file with some of my favorite quotes. Many of them are political in nature, others more about character. I hope you enjoy them: Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. --Thomas Jefferson Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official. --Theodore Roosevelt It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. --Cervantes All bad precedents began as justifiable measures. --Gaius Julius Caesar Law stands mute in the midst of arms. --Marcus Tullius Cicero There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. --Cyrus Curtis The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. --Edmund Burke It was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality. --Cicero Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth - Mahatma Ghandi I often give myself good advice, but very seldom follow it. - Alice in Wonderland When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. General George Washington, New York Legislature, 1775 We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop c. 550 BC One who reads nothing is better educated than one who reads nothing but newspapers. (Thomas Jefferson) Next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future! The Constitution, its not just a good idea, its THE LAW! Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animated contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. Samuel Adams A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Robert Heinlein We live in a Newtonian world of Einstein physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. -- David Russell We must not be intimidated or lose our composure even though the once morally unacceptable is becoming acceptable, as if frequency somehow conferred respectability! One of the most subtle forms of intimidation is the gradual normalization of aberration! (Ensign, May 1993, p. 76.) Neal A. Maxwell Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill Believe you cant or believe you can. Either way youre right! -Henry Ford It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men (Abraham Lincoln) Gun Control: The flawed theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. - George Washington Extremism in pursuit of freedom is no vice. Moderation in defense of liberty is no virtue. The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. - Aldous Huxley A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still. - Benjamin Franklin A smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a pool - Anonymous What is faith worth if it is not translated into action? Gandhi Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If hes a Mac user, hell tell you. If not, why embarrass him? - Tom Clancy
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 18:42:36 +0000
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