| We
have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
~ Bill Maher |
| Do
not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not. ~ General
George Patton |
| What
luck for the rulers that men do not think. ~ Adolph Hitler |
| Do
what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized
anyway. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Whenever
you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain |
| Declare
it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have
peace... we just need to declare it. ~ John Lennon |
| A
people free to choose will always choose peace. ~ Ronald Reagan |
| The
future will be shaped by those willing to commit their minds
and their bodies to the task. ~ Robert Kennedy |
| If
you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends, you
talk to your enemies. ~ Mother Theresa |
| There
are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play
with matches. ~
Will Rogers |
| To
befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt
politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
~ T. Roosevelt |
| You
measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents.
~ Abbie Hoffman |
| If
everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then
there'd be peace. ~ John Lennon |
| Unthinking
respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ~ Albert
Einstein |
| Too
often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort
of thought. ~ JFK |
| If
we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. ~ Ronald
Reagan |
| Words
without actions are the assassins of idealism. ~ Herbert
Hoover |
| What
we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution
or you're part of the problem. ~
Eldridge Cleaver |
| To
befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt
politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
~ T. Roosevelt |
| You
measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents.
~ Abbie Hoffman |
| Dissent
is the highest form of patriotism. ~ Howard Zinn |
| One-fifth
of the people are against everything all the time. ~ Robert
Kennedy |
| A right
delayed is a right denied. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| I'm
not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat.
~ Will Rogers |
| People,
like charity, begins at home. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Safeguarding
the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of
a human being. ~ Kahlil Gibran |
| In
matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle,
stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
| Life's
unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales
for others, if not always for ourselves. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey |
| The
American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince
Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied
country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American
people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the
United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they
should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.
~ Gore Vidal, Interview Magazine, June 1987 |
| Presidents
have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress
hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've
been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify
the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth.~
Gore Vidal, Interview Magazine, June 1987 |
| People
don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't
like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you
step on toes. ~ Oliver North, Iran Contra Hearings, July 8,
1987 |
| In
America, disagreement with the policies of the government does
not necessitate a lack of patriotism!~ Senator Mitchell to Oliver
North, Iran Contra Hearings |
| The
care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the
first and only legitimate object of a good government. ~ Thomas
Jefferson |
| America
is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for
democracy - and won't cross the street to vote in a national
election. ~ Bill Vaughen |
| If
we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes
a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become
two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled
with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively
cripple each generation to come. ~ Lyndon Johnson to Congress
in 1965 |
| If
a law is unconstitutional, it is no less unconstitutional because
it is a product of Congress. ~ Justice Stewart |
| Our
nation had had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination.
Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude
of romantic paternalism, which in practical effect put women
not on a pedestal, but in a cage. ~ Justice William Brennan
|
| Every
idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed
it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some
failure of energy stifles the movement at birth. Eloquence may
set fire to reason. ~ Justice Holmes |
| Too
much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence
and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by
that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances
to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for
our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts
the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural
wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a
nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots
in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife,
and the television programs which glorify violence in order
to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product
does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of
their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include
the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the
intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public
officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither
our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our
devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except
that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything
about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.~
Sen. Robert Francis
Kennedy - March 18, 1968 |
| The
price of greatness is responsibility ~ Winston Churchill
|
| Here's
a quote everyone should know:
I live in Alexandria,
Virginia. Near the Supreme Court chambers is a toll bridge across
the Potomac. When in a rush, I pay the dollar toll and get home
early. However, I usually drive outside the downtown section
of the city and cross the Potomac on a free bridge. This bridge
was placed outside the downtown Washington, DC area to serve
a useful social service, getting drivers to drive the extra
mile and help alleviate congestion during the rush hour. If
I went over the toll bridge and through the barrier without
paying the toll, I would be committing tax evasion ... If, however,
I drive the extra mile and drive outside the city of Washington
to the free bridge, I am using a legitimate, logical and suitable
method of tax avoidance, and am performing a useful social service
by doing so. For my tax evasion, I should be punished. For my
tax avoidance, I should be commended. The tragedy of life today
is that so few people know that the free bridge even exists.~
Justice Louis Brandeis |
| Hell
hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ~ Milton Friedman |
| I not
only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
~ Woodrow Wilson |
| The
young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| You
cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. ~ Albert
Einstein |
| You
can't fail...unless you quit! A quitter never wins and a winner
never quits. ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| There
is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
~ Mark Twain |
| Non-cooperation
with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. ~ Mohandas
Gandhi |
| The
time is always right to do what is right. ~ Martin Luther King,
Jr |
| An
honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. ~ Millard
Fillmore |
| In
matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,
stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
| What
luck for the rulers that men do not think. ~ Adolph Hitler |
| True
peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of
justice." ~ Jane Addams Nobel laureate |
| There
cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ~
Henry Kissinger |
| The
possibility that we may fail in the struggle, ought not to deter
us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ~ Abraham
Lincoln |
| There
never was a good war or a bad peace. ~ Benjamin Franklin |
| Those
who stand for nothing fall for anything. ~ Alexander Hamilton |
| We
hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created
equal. ~Thomas Jefferson |
| You
have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life. ~ Winston S. Churchill |
| In
the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends. ~ Martin Luther King |
