GREAT QUOTES / 9
Here is another group of qotes gleaned from many different places. Sometimes I'm amazed at the wide variety of people and places that these come from. I hope you find them interesting, provacative, inspirational, amusing.......etc..........Enjoy.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his
government - Edward Abbey
Don't you get the idea I'm one of these goddamn radicals. Don't get the
idea I'm knocking the American system -- Al Capone
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One
path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total
extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody
Allen
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When
we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it
with love and respect. - Aldo Leopold
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be
unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers
be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. - John
Quincy Adams
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly
free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails,
they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors
on your head. — Jean Cocteau
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber
"Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and, now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives."
-Editorial Page, Sunday, June 19 Portland Oregonian
The Americans who are the most efficient people on earth. . . have
invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can
carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what
they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more
important matters of big business and fornication - Somerset Maugham
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries
or credulities of mankind -- Joseph Conrad
[We] believe in fighting for people who don't have a voice. It's what we have always believed in. We know the difference between right and wrong. How about if we actually stand up and fight with passion for what we believe in?"
John Edwards - 2005 Take Back America Conference
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." - Justice William O. Douglass
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his
government - Edward Abbey
Don't you get the idea I'm one of these goddamn radicals. Don't get the
idea I'm knocking the American system -- Al Capone
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One
path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total
extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody
Allen
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When
we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it
with love and respect. - Aldo Leopold
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be
unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers
be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. - John
Quincy Adams
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly
free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails,
they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors
on your head. — Jean Cocteau
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber
"Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and, now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives."
-Editorial Page, Sunday, June 19 Portland Oregonian
The Americans who are the most efficient people on earth. . . have
invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can
carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what
they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more
important matters of big business and fornication - Somerset Maugham
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries
or credulities of mankind -- Joseph Conrad
[We] believe in fighting for people who don't have a voice. It's what we have always believed in. We know the difference between right and wrong. How about if we actually stand up and fight with passion for what we believe in?"
John Edwards - 2005 Take Back America Conference
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." - Justice William O. Douglass
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