A Collection of My Favorite Quotes:
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities." Voltaire
"Much virtue in Herbs, little in men." Benjamin Franklin
"The most dangerous woman to any government is the woman who is able to think things out for herself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably she comes to the conclusion that the government she lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable..." HL Mencken
“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.” Marbury v Madison, US Supreme Court 1803
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
"Whenever a free society is on the retreat, a fear society is on the offensive. The weapon of choice for every authoritarian regime is the organized cruelty of the police state." Condoleezza Rice, Bush's Secretary of State, 2005
"It is simpler than you think and more complicated than you can imagine." Goerthe
"It is as simple as one step after the other."
"God is everything. Everything is God."
"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet." Lyle Myhur
"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police." Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." Albert Einstein
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry
"There never was a good war, or a bad peace." Benjamin Frankiln
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." Thomas Jefferson
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." Albert Einstein
"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run." Elbert Hubbard
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein
"It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change." Confucius
"Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization." Jon Bentley
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." Bernard Berenson
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap." Napolean Bonaparte
"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." George Burns
"An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true." Doug Larson
"The truth, as the light, makes blind." Albert Camus
"There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it." William James
"Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust." John Fellows Akers
"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence." Amiel
"It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake." Janos Arany
"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies." Sir Francis Bacon
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." Goerthe
"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do." Goerthe