"Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe, because in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty."
-- PRESIDENT BUSH
Kinda ironic coming from the president who signed the patriot act.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-- John Adams

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
-- Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887.

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
-- Mahatma Ghandi

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1781 Notes on the State of Virginia

"Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association"
-- Orson Scott Card

"Patriotism isn't about being 'the greatest country in the world,' though you wouldn't know it to listen to the speeches of some politicians. It's not about worshipping your government and automatically identifying it with righteousness in all cases. Rather, patriotism is about loving your country for the same reason you love your family - not because they're 'great' but because they're yours."
-- Sandi Greene

"There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword."
-- General Ulysses S. Grant

"If you link the facets of our lives to prevent rebellions, you hand the rebels the key to success."
-- David Feintuch, Voices of Hope

"Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance."
-- Woodrow Wilson - 1912

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The problem with having a logical mind and giving women the same creditfor ability as men is that you can't contrive reasons to keep them safe."
-- Raymond E. Feist

"Conversation is food for the soul."
-- Mexican Proverb

"Better no law than laws not enforced."
-- Italian Proverb

"Look at a man the way that he is, he only becomes worse. But look at him as if he were what he could be, and then he becomes what he should be."
-- Goethe

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
-- John Holt

"Lack of planning on your part doesn't consitute an emergency on my part."
-- I think I first saw this on a teacher's wall at PVI, but it is a /. quote that reminded me of it.

"Men are ruled, at this minute, by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave."
-- G. K. Chesterton, "Utopia of Userers"

"Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have."
-- Andrew Vachss

"Those who do not read are no better off than those who can not."
-- Chinese Proverb

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
-- Albert Einstein

"As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping."
-- J. Budziszewski in this article last viewed on 1-27-2000.

"justice = when we get what we deserve
 mercy = when we don't get what we deserve
 charity = when we get what we don't deserve"
--Ederlyn reminded me of this, forget from where.

"Sadly, most English teachers possess a superhuman ability to make great literature seem dull (no small feat). Primarily, this is acccomplished through various methods of critical analysis. "
--Sam Torode in Lessons From A Bear of Very Little Brain

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- John Adams

"Every society honors its live conformists and dead troublemakers."
-Avery Minor

"Your work is both true and original. Unfortunately, the parts that are true are not original, and the parts that are original are not true."
-Edgar Allen Poe see
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"...judges should apply , not rewrite, the Constitution of the United States."
-- Dick Armey
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