The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russel
Monthly Archives: January 2024
We can do not great things – only small things with great love. …
We can do not great things – only small things with great love. Mother Theresa
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. Fred Allen …
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen
US entertainer and radio comedian (1894-1956)
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the …
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter …
Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than hischildren? Marcus Tullius Cicero
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has …
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual) Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
The Navy has both a tradition and a future–and we look …
The Navy has both a tradition and a future–and we look with pride and confidence in both directions. George Anderson
Admiral George Anderson, CNO, 1 August 1961
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Winston …
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
There is a phrase which has grown so common in the world’…
There is a phrase which has grown so common in the world’s mouth that it has come to seem to have sense and meaning — the sense and meaning implied when it is used — that is, the phrase which refers to this or that or the other nation as possibly being ‘capable of self-government’; and the implied sense of it is, that there has been a nation somewhere, sometime or other which wasn’t capable of it — wasn’t as able to govern itself as some self-appointed specialists were or would be to govern it. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Let us beware that while they [Soviet rulers
Let us beware that while they [Soviet rulers] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination over all the peoples of the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world…. I urge you to beware the temptation … to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of any evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.E Ronald Wilson Reagan
President , speech to the National Association of Evangelicals (March 8, 1983)
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