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1. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
2. "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles." - George Eliot
3. "Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect." ~ George Bancroft
4. "You may raise the pile of calumny as high as you like; it will never reach the height of my disdain." ~ François Guizot
5. "A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone." ~ Denis Diderot
6. "Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control." ~ Denis Diderot
7. "With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power." ~ Henry A. Wallace
8. "The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind." ~ Frank Herbert
9. "The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made. In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting before a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train." ~ Bruce Catton
10. "The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous." ~ James Clavell
11. "Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality." ~ Harlan Fiske Stone
12. "One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman." ~ Edith Stein (Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)
13. "A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the State as servant and not as master: these are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free economy. And on that freedom all our other freedoms depend." ~ Margaret Thatcher
14. "As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow." ~ Dwight David Eisenhower
15. "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
16. "A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea." ~ Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Writing for the court, Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949)
17. "One must always have in mind one simple fact -- there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor." ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
18. "It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with." ~ Matthew Henry
19. "The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion." ~ Lewis Mumford
20. "I will venture to lay it down as a general principle, that there are no better means for securing the continuance of peace, than to have it known that the possessions in the neighbourhood of a foreign state are in a condition to repel attack. I am firmly persuaded that among nations, weakness will never be a foundation for security." ~ Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1816)
21. "The root cause of terrorism lies not in grievances but in a disposition toward unbridled violence. This can be traced to a world view which asserts that certain ideological and religious goals justify, indeed demand, the shedding of all moral inhibitions." ~ Benjamin Netanyahu
22. "Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this." ~ Doris Lessing
23. "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period." ~ Michael Crichton
24. "The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion." ~ Doris Lessing
25. "The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars." ~ Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd
26. "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another." ~ Napoleon Hill
27. "A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him." ~ Dylan Thomas
28. "What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis." ~ Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd
29. "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" ~ Fanny Brice
30. "There are no great men, just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet." ~ Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr.
31. "Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject." ~ John Keats
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