"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."--
"The Declaration of Independence", 1776 --Thomas Jefferson
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"In order for evil to flourish, all that is required is for
good men to do nothing."--Edmund Burke
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"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time
of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." --Aleghieri Dante
(1265 - 1321)
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"Nonetheless, it moves." --Galileo Galilei, upon receiving
his life sentence from the Church for insisting the Earth moves around
the Sun.
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"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" -- Benjamin
Franklin
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"The
American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy
in exchange for safety and security." -- FBI Director Louis Freeh,
1994
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"Human beings remain constant in their methods
of conduct." - "The Prince" --Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
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"Restriction of free thought and free speech is
the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that
could most easily defeat us." --- Justice William O. Douglas
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"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority... It thus
exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment
in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation -- and
their ideas from suppression -- at the hand of an intolerant society.."
--- U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
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"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There
are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get
by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught." -- J.C. Watts,
Oklahoma Congressman
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"1935 will go down in history! For the first time a civilized nation
has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more
efficient, and the world will follow our lead in the future!" --Adolf
Hitler
(There is some question
to the accuracy of this quote. I choose to leave it in my collection because
it illustrates an important point, that is: tyrants prefer unarmed peasants.) |
| "The
strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
--Thomas Jefferson |
| "No
man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. " "The
Strenuous Life", 1900 -- Theodore Roosevelt |
| "I have
sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to Dr. Benjamin
Rush of September 23, 1800. |
| "That
government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline
themselves." --Thomas Jefferson |
| "Opportunities
multiply as they are seized." --Sun Tzu |
| "I am not morally
obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself."-- "Atlas
Shrugged" -- Ayn Rand |
| "Courts
love the people always, as wolves do the sheep." --Thomas Jefferson
to John Jay |
| "One
man with courage is a majority." --Thomas Jefferson |
| "...the
rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand
of God..." -- Pres. John F. Kennedy |
| "A free
people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not
as the gift of their chief magistrate." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights
of British America 1774 |
| "Extremism
in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice
is no virtue" — Barry Goldwater |
| "If
ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better
than the animating 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 |
| [...the Constitution
is] "...like my old blue dress ... it just doesn't fit anymore."
-- Ellen Tauscher (Democrat) - Califonia congresswoman |
| "The
difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
--Albert Einstein |
| "Government
will not subsidize irresponsible or reckless behaviour" --President
Clinton |
| "Foolproof
systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools". --Gene Brown |
| "I'm
not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
-- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents |
| "The
people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses
and courts - not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men
who pervert that constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln, Sept. 17, 1859,
speech in Cincinnati, OH |
| "Is
life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains
or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take
but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!" --Patrick Henry,
March 23, 1775 |
| "Unthinking
respect for authority is the greatest enemy of Truth" - Albert Einstein
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| "I do
not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo
Galilei |
| "Why
do the people who know the least, know it the loudest?" -- Geoff Metcalf,
KSFO San Francisco |
| "I would
rather hear the ugly truth than a pretty lie." |
| "If
I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders
of giants."-- Isaac Newton |
| "In
Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up." --Martin Niemoeller,
German Lutheran Pastor |
| "When
starving with a tiger, the tiger starves last." -- Chinese Proverb
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| "Do
your best." -- Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as The Buddha, (557
B.C.- 477 B.C). |
"ANNUIT
COEPTIS" Latin, from American dollar bills
Translation: "God has favored our undertakings" |
