Post your favorite quotes from famous leaders and thinkers

reply to post by RedBird


I am so glad to see someone quote G. K. Chesterton. He is a fantastic man and his creation of Distributism is amazing.

reply to post by Romantic_Rebel


Here is a favourite of mine:


For those who believe, no explanation is necessary.
For those who do not, none will suffice.
--- Joseph Dunninger

"The troopers came up the street, M16's at the ready... and the mob threatened and cursed... but the mob retreated, because it had met the one thing that could stop it. Force... rooted in justice and backed by moral courage." ~ Pat Buchanan

"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature." ~ Adam Smith

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." ~ John Adams

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." ~ Alexander Hamilton

"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization." ~ Daniel Webster

I likes this one: "When sh#$ becomes valuable, the poor will be born without a#@holes". Henry Miller.

And this one is sad but I believe true: "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill.

And finally, from the great man himself: “We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat." Terence McKenna.

Thank you,

Laze

Peter: Ground zero. So this is where the first guy got AIDS.
Brian: No, Peter, this is the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks!
Peter: Oh, so Saddam Hussein did this?
Brian: No.
Peter: The Iraqi army?
Brian: No.
Peter: Some guys from Iraq?
Brian: No.
Peter: That one lady who visited Iraq that one time?
Brian: NO! Peter, Iraq had nothing to do with this. It was a bunch of Saudi Arabians, Lebanese, and Egyptians financed by a Saudi Arabian guy living in Afghanistan and sheltered by Pakistanis.
Peter: So...you're saying we need to invade Iran?

-peter and brian griffin.

“The wise speak only of what they know.” - J.R.R.Tolkien

reply to post by Romantic_Rebel


"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time"
# Abraham Lincoln

The will to save mankind is almost always caused by the urge to to rule the people.
# H.L. Mencken

"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance."
# Albert Einstein

one of my favorite is from an ad by apple computer, and i don.t care if its grammar is right or not:

think different

love it that much, that i put it as a sig in my emails

the other one is a quote by albert einstein, some say he never said it, but it is so good, that it could have been said by him:

Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber bei dem Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher.

Two things are infinite, the universe and the human stupidity, but with the universe I am not yet completely sure about.

"Like rats from a sinking ship." Don't know where it's from. It best describes our local tribal government offices at 4:00 PM.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing... Friedrich Nietzsche

Nice thread op, I'll be adding alot of these to my collection, which i have gathered from mostly sigs on various forums. If any of you see one of yours, Thanks!


Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
-Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
-Abraham Lincoln

"Don't look for a conspiracy when incompetence will explain the situation."

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- HL Mencken

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
- Vannevar Bush

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-John Stuart Mill

Prohibition is pure proof that you dont have to be drunk to have a really stupid idea. (one of my favs)

"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "what I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this —- who will count the votes, and how."

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
- Augusten Burroughs

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
- William Feather

Don't fall before you're pushed.
-English Proverb

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
-Thomas Jefferson

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-George Washington

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
-Ronald Reagan

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson

"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with." - William Halsey

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." - Sirius Black

"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." General Creighton W. Adams

“Obama - Just another lousy, loony, leftist, liberal, commie-bastard Democrat.”--me

"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals... It does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government... It is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government." --philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector." --Ronald Reagan.

Government Healthcare: The efficiency of the postal service, the sustainability of the social security and all the compassion of the IRS. --Ronald Reagan

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." Patton

In 1987, Ronald Reagan commented on useful idiots: “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

In 2008, Independent voters voted for Obama to prove they were not the racist bigots, the media and Democrats hypothesized they were. Ever since, Independents have been voting against Obama to prove they also are not socialists.

From the 1940 feature film Ghost Breakers, starring the late, great, Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard:
Scientist: “It’s worse than horrible, because a Zombie has no will of his own. You see them some times, walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.”
Bob Hope: “You mean, like Democrats?”

"The malice of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous" --British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst." --Irish novelist C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

"If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave." --author John "Birdman" Bryant (1943-2009)

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." --American author Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers union Al Shanker once said, “When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.”

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent

Objectivism by Ayn Rand, 1962
At a sales conference at Random House, preceding the publication of Atlas Shrugged, one of the book salesmen asked me whether I could present the essence of my philosophy while standing on one foot. I did as follows:
1. Metaphysics Objective Reality
2. Epistemology Reason
3. Ethics Self-interest
4. Politics Capitalism

If you want this translated into simple language, it would read: 1. “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed” or “Wishing won’t make it so.” 2. “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too.” 3. “Man is an end in himself.” 4. “Give me liberty or give me death.”
If you held these concepts with total consistency, as the base of your convictions, you would have a full philosophical system to guide the course of your life. But to hold them with total consistency—to understand, to define, to prove and to apply them—requires volumes of thought. Which is why philosophy cannot be discussed while standing on one foot—nor while standing on two feet on both sides of every fence. This last is the predominant philosophical position today, particularly in the field of politics.

My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that:
1. Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.
2. Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.
3. Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
4. The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man’s rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics,


By Russell Kirk
(1) Men and nations are governed by moral laws; and those laws have their origin in a wisdom that is more than human—in divine justice. At heart, political problems are moral and religious problems. The wise statesman tries to apprehend the moral law and govern his conduct accordingly. We have a moral debt to our ancestors, who bestowed upon us our civilization, and a moral obligation to the generations who will come after us. This debt is ordained of God. We have no right, therefore, to tamper impudently with human nature or with the delicate fabric of our civil social order.
(2) Variety and diversity are the characteristics of a high civilization. Uniformity and absolute equality are the death of all real vigor and freedom in existence. Conservatives resist with impartial strength the uniformity of a tyrant or an oligarchy, and the uniformity of what Tocqueville called “democratic despotism.”
(3) Justice means that every man and every woman have the right to what is their own—to the things best suited to their own nature, to the rewards of their ability and integrity, to their property and their personality. Civilized society requires that all men and women have equal rights before the law, but that equality should not extend to equality of condition: that is, society is a great partnership, in which all have equal rights—but not to equal things. The just society requires sound leadership, different rewards for different abilities, and a sense of respect and duty.
(4) Property and freedom are inseparably connected; economic leveling is not economic progress. Conservatives value property for its own sake, of course; but they value it even more because without it all men and women are at the mercy of an omnipotent government.
(5) Power is full of danger; therefore the good state is one in which power is checked and balanced, restricted by sound constitutions and customs. So far as possible, political power ought to be kept in the hands of private persons and local institutions. Centralization is ordinarily a sign of social decadence.
(6) The past is a great storehouse of wisdom; as Burke said, “the individual is foolish, but the species is wise.” The conservative believes that we need to guide ourselves by the moral traditions, the social experience, and the whole complex body of knowledge bequeathed to us by our ancestors. The conservative appeals beyond the rash opinion of the hour to what Chesterton called “the democracy of the dead”—that is, the considered opinions of the wise men and women who died before our time, the experience of the race. The conservative, in short, knows he was not born yesterday.
(7) Modern society urgently needs true community: and true community is a world away from collectivism. Real community is governed by love and charity, not by compulsion. Through churches, voluntary associations, local governments, and a variety of institutions, conservatives strive to keep community healthy. Conservatives are not selfish, but public-spirited. They know that collectivism means the end of real community, substituting uniformity for variety and force for willing cooperation.
(8) In the affairs of nations, the American conservative feels that his country ought to set an example to the world, but ought not to try to remake the world in its image. It is a law of politics, as well as of biology, that every living thing loves above all else—even above its own life—its distinct identity, which sets it off from all other things. The conservative does not aspire to domination of the world, nor does he relish the prospect of a world reduced to a single pattern of government and civilization.
(9) Men and women are not perfectible, conservatives know; and neither are political institutions. We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell. We all are creatures of mingled good and evil; and, good institutions neglected and ancient moral principles ignored, the evil in us tends to predominate. Therefore the conservative is suspicious of all utopian schemes. He does not believe that, by power of positive law, we can solve all the problems of humanity. We can hope to make our world tolerable, but we cannot make it perfect. When progress is achieved, it is through prudent recognition of the limitations of human nature.
(10) Change and reform, conservatives are convinced, are not identical: moral and political innovation can be destructive as well as beneficial; and if innovation is undertaken in a spirit of presumption and enthusiasm, probably it will be disastrous. All human institutions alter to some extent from age to age, for slow change is the means of conserving society, just as it is the means for renewing the human body. But American conservatives endeavor to reconcile the growth and alteration essential to our life with the strength of our social and moral traditions. With Lord Falkland, they say, “When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.” They understand that men and women are best content when they can feel that they live in a stable world of enduring values.
Conservatism, then, is not simply the concern of the people who have much property and influence; it is not simply the defense of privilege and status. Most conservatives are neither rich nor powerful. But they do, even the most humble of them, derive great benefits from our established Republic. They have liberty, security of person and home, equal protection of the laws, the right to the fruits of their industry, and opportunity to do the best that is in them. They have a right to personality in life, and a right to consolation in death. Conservative principles shelter the hopes of everyone in society. And conservatism is a social concept important to everyone who desires equal justice and personal freedom and all the lovable old ways of humanity. Conservatism is not simply a defense of “capitalism.” (“Capitalism,” indeed, is a word coined by Karl Marx, intended from the beginning to imply that the only thing conservatives defend is vast accumulations of private capital.) But the true conservative does stoutly defend private property and a free economy, both for their own sake and because these are means to great ends.

"[W]e ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own." --George Washington

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers." --John Adams
"Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge." --James Wilson

"A nation under a well regulated government should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support." --Thomas Paine

"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." --Samuel Adams

"If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free -- in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson

"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." --James Madison

Activity 3: Have a class discussion about why Obama attended a very expensive private school in Hawaii, and why he now spends $60,000 annually for his two children to attend private school, but does not support school choice initiatives for students stuck in government institutions?
Obama closed the indoctrination exercise with these words: "At the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents and the best schools in the world, and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities."
However, with few exceptions, we do not have "the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents and the best schools in the world," and we don't have them primarily as a consequence of Leftist social policies, which Obama wants to perpetuate. Obama certainly does not have the moral authority to instruct children to "fulfill your responsibilities," until he starts with a few of his own, like his oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

"I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.... [It] would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded." --President Franklin Pierce (1804-1869)


"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory." --American author and humorist Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "
-David Icke

Regan: Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it


Your did not bear the shame
You resisted
Sacrificing you life
For freedom, justice and Honor
Fr the german resistance memorial, berlin, Germany


Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
~Ronald Reagan

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
~Ronald Reagan

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence (OBAMACARE – mine), the money of their constituents.” – James Madison

“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ”
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. ”
“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”
“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”
-The great Ronald Reagan

"If you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!" --British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"It is obvious what the fraudulent issue of fascism versus communism accomplishes: it sets up, as opposites, two variants of the same political system; it eliminates the possibility of considering capitalism; it switches the choice of 'Freedom or dictatorship?' into 'Which kind of dictatorship?' -- thus establishing dictatorship as an inevitable fact and offering only a choice of rulers. The choice -- according to the proponents of that fraud -- is: a dictatorship of the rich (fascism) or a dictatorship of the poor (communism). That fraud collapsed in the 1940's, in the aftermath of World War II. It is too obvious, too easily demonstrable that fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory -- that both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state -- that both are socialistic, in theory, in practice, and in the explicit statements of their leaders -- that under both systems, the poor are enslaved and the rich are expropriated in favor of a ruling clique -- that fascism is not the product of the political 'right,' but of the 'left' -- that the basic issue is not 'rich versus poor,' but man versus the state, or: individual rights versus totalitarian government -- which means: capitalism versus socialism." --philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Josh says everyone should live in small homes and restrict travel: My response: You are not being 'Green', just poor. Dinky apartment, riding the bus...just like a third world survivor. Then saying that others shouldn't have big homes makes you sound like a commie - and since you are from San Francisco, you probably are. Just more environmentalist hype. Maybe you want to be part of the 'collective', not I. Everybody has to live somewhere, I chose to live in a 7,000 sq ft home on a private airport outside of Chicago. Since I have a wide temperature range to deal with, I designed and built this home in 1985 with a super-insulated design having R-38 double walls and R-60 ceilings and it's operational costs are low, averaging today $150 per month (gas and electric) year around, much lower cost per sq ft than your dinky apartment in a temperature-neutral climate. And in 1985, total cost was $192,000 including 3/4 acres of land and 1/36 ownership in a paved runway, not bad. Super-Insulation installation costs were only an extra $13 per linear ft of exterior wall and $.40 extra per sq ft of attic in 1985 ($5,600 for the entire home), maybe 50% more today, still low based upon the benefits. Today, nobody else is really doing this level of insulation which effective in any home design. Wisconsin has an minimum energy code of R-18 walls and R-28 ceiling, which helps, but just a little. By the way, my airplane does 130 mph and since I can go direct, it's like getting 18 mpg in a car, and at most destination airports, I get free use of a car while I'm there. PS: Global warming and CO2 is just another gimmick using a phony formula. PS: I'm a Director of Operation for a solar power company, mechanical engineer, certified project manager, and a licensed waste treatment engineer, have saved $60 million for companies by helping them reduce waste, and have been 'green' and more importantly implemented 'lean' since 1977. I've built eight super-insulated homes with my construction company starting at 1,200 sq ft and all are doing well and continuing to save money for the occupants. I wrote this because I'm tired of the elitist attitude of supposed environmentalists wanting us to live like hippies in a commune. Wake up to the real world, put down the weed, and get a job.--me

> At a time
> when our president and other politicians tend to apologize
> for our country’s prior actions, here is a refresher on
> how some of our former patriots handled negative comments
> about our country.
> |
>
> | JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France
> in the early 60's when DeGaule decided to pull out of
> NATO. DeGaule said he wanted all US military out of
> France as soon as possible.
> |
> | Rusk responded "does that include those who are
> buried here?
> |
> | DeGuale did not respond.
> |
> | You
> could have heard a pin drop.
> | ------------------------------------------
> |
> |
> | When in England, at a fairly large conference; Colin
> Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our
> plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by
> George Bush.
> |
> | He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United
> States has sent many of its fine young men and women into
> great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders.
> The only amount of land we have ever asked for in
> return is enough to bury those that did not
> return.'
> |
> | You could have heard a pin drop.
> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> |
> | There was a conference
> in France where a number of international engineers were
> taking part, including French and American. During a
> break, one of the French engineers came back into the room
> saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has
> done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help
> the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb
> them?'
> |
> | A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our
> carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat
> several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can
> supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities;
> they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000
> people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand
> gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they
> carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting
> victims and injured to and from
> their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how
> many does France have?'
> |
> | You
> could have heard a pin drop.
> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> |
> | A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that
> included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian,
> Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he
> found himself standing with a large group of Officers that
> included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone
> was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but
> a French a dmiral suddenly complained that, whereas
> Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only
> English. He then
> asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English
> in these conferences rather than speaking
> French?'
> |
> | Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied,
> 'Maybe it's because the Brit's, Canadians,
> Aussie's and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't
> have to speak German.'
> |
> | You
> could have heard a pin drop.
> |
> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> |
> | AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE
> ABOVE...
> |
> | Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in
> Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to
> locate his passport in his carry on.
> |
> |
> | "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the
> customs officer asked sarcastically.
> |
> | Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France
> previously.
> |
> | "Then you should know enough to have your passport
> ready."
> |
> | The American said, 'The last time I was here, I
> didn't have to show
> it."
> |
> | "Impossible. Americans always have to show your
> passports on arrival in France!"
> |
> | The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look.
> Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came
> ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this
> country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a
> passport to."
> |
> |
> | You
> could have heard a pin drop.

>
> If it
> weren't for the United States military, there'd be
> NO United States of America .
> | If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had
> better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S. Truman

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." Thoreau

"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." Cervantes

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."
-Chief Seattle

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. "
-Mohandas Gandhi

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali 1975

Winston Churchill to Lady Astor

"Sir, you're drunk!" "Yes, Madam, I am. But in the morning, I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

......love it OP...hmmm.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Thomas Aquinas

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Thomas Aquinas....thats so true in so many level..wow


It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.... thomas aquinas.

.How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Thomas Aquinas ..

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Thomas Aquinas

...i got few more ................Enjoy

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Charles de Montesquieu....damn for a guy living in the 1600 to 1700..


Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
Charles de Montesquieu

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Charles de Montesquieu

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Charles de Montesquieu

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Charles de Montesquieu

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
Charles de Montesquieu

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Charles de Montesquieu

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Charles de Montesquieu

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Charles de Montesquieu

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Charles de Montesquieu

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
Charles de Montesquieu

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Charles de Montesquieu

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Charles de Montesquieu

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
Charles de Montesquieu

Peace is a natural effect of trade.
Charles de Montesquieu

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
Charles de Montesquieu

The less men think, the more they talk.
Charles de Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
Charles de Montesquieu

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Charles de Montesquieu

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
Charles de Montesquieu

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Charles de Montesquieu

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Charles de Montesquieu

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Charles de Montesquieu

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Charles de Montesquieu

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Charles de Montesquieu

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Charles de Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
Charles de Montesquieu

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Charles de Montesquieu

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Charles de Montesquieu

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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