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1. "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
2. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. It was here first." - Mark Twain
3. "The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance."
- Samuel Butler
4. "Our system and our freedom permit the legislative to be pitted against the executive, the State against the Federal Government, the city against the countryside, party against party, interest against interest, all in competition or in contention one with another." - John F. Kennedy, 1962
5. "I say there is no darkness but ignorance." - William Shakespeare
6. "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." – Winston Churchill
7. "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." - Henry David Thoreau
8. "We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe. And it’s because of the PC police, it’s because of politicians, it’s because of news. All of these things are combining to stifle people’s conversation. The reason that is so horrible is because the only way you have harmony and reach a consensus is by talking. But if, in fact, people are afraid to talk, you never reach consensus. And instead you grow further and further apart. And that’s exactly what’s happening, creating a horrible schism that will destroy our nation if we don’t fix it." - Dr. Ben Carson
9. "In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet." – Winston Churchill
10. "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." – Dr. Carl Sagan
11. LETTER TO MRS. BIXBY
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
DEAR MADAM,—
I have been shown in the files of the war Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you with only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
12. "If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking." - Ben Franklin
13. "It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." - Ben Franklin
14. "We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." -- Winston Churchill
15. "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
16. "A government, by itself, is equally incapable of refreshing the circulation of feelings and ideas among a great people, as it is of controlling every industrial undertaking." - Alexis de Tocqueville
17. "I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands ‘Thus saith the Lord’, it lies, and lies dangerously." ~ C. S. Lewis
18. "Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage." – Winston Churchill
19. "Administrative centralization only serves to enervate the peoples that submit to it, because it constantly tends to diminish their civic spirit." - Alexis de Tocqueville
20. "The ultimate and final goal of evil is to obscure and destroy our very conception of evil itself, to change the inherent moral fiber of all humanity until people can no longer recognize what is right and what is wrong." ~ Brandon Smith
21. "The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining." ~ John F. Kennedy
22. "In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled." ~ C. S. Lewis, in "Willing Slaves of the Welfare State" (1958)
23. "A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course, there are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvard Class Day speech, 1978
24. "I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do: That is character!" ~ Theodore Roosevelt
25. "The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?" ~ C. S. Lewis, in "Willing Slaves of the Welfare State" (1958)
26. "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." - Attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the movie, "Tora Tora Tora."
27. "A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen." – Winston Churchill
28. "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." – Winston Churchill
29. "If you don’t care of the people who are doing the heavy lifting, they will burn your castle down." ~ John Schnatter
30. "The stuff that everybody says is too hard to do? Do that. Really learn it. And then you’ll be worth your weight in gold." ~ Stathi Pappas
31. "Favoring information that supports our current beliefs is a cognitive bias common to Homo sapiens, but ideology tends to take this simple bias to a new level. It can lead to the systematic distortion or denial of science, and render belief systems immune to logic and evidence." ~ Dr. Steven Novella
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