Thoughts
From Butler Shaffer
The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking,
so that we come to Distrust Others and look to the State for Protection.
2009-03-18 at 18:48:51
From Russell J. Clinchy
We should remember that in an area controlled by such a process as
national socialism, or Any Similar Philosophy of governmental direction,
the question and definition of what human personality is and what human
rights and fundamental freedoms are, rest with the Dominant Political Power.
2009-03-17 at 11:59:29
From Will Durant
Education Is A Progressive Discovery Of Our Own Ignorance.
2011-01-17 at 15:28:07
From Thomas Jefferson
Leave No Authority Existing NOT Responsible To The People.
2009-03-17 at 11:57:50
From Poor Richards Almanac 1743
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet every one has courage
enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of
his/her neighbor.
2009-03-17 at 10:47:43
From Alec Bourne
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still
Be Entirely Uneducated.
2009-03-17 at 10:45:34
From George W. Bush
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be
taken very seriously--and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.
2009-03-16 at 16:58:05
From Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it
was planned that way.
2009-03-14 at 18:40:40
From Dwight David Eisenhower
This world of ours..must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and
hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
2009-03-14 at 18:39:04
From Plato
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and
there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
or another, in order that people may require a leader.
2009-03-14 at 17:35:13
From Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be
elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for
the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the
20th century and dared to be herself.
2009-03-14 at 17:33:40
From John F. Kennedy
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
2009-03-14 at 17:31:19
From Thrasymachus the Sophist by Plato
Justice is merely the advantage of the stronger - Injustice, if it is on a
large enough scale, is stronger, firmer, and more masterful than justice.
2009-03-14 at 17:24:33
From Saint Augustine
Without justice, what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers?
2009-03-14 at 17:22:50
From Clint Eastwood
I like the Libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a
kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.
2009-03-13 at 18:54:03