I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays nine years ago no work on Natural History Science I have met with has made so great an impression on me & I do most heartily thank you for the great store of new views you have given me. . .As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite. . .I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you. . . And as to the curs which will bark and yelp — you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead — I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895, Letter of T. H. Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 23, 1859, regarding the Origin of Species
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money …
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most …
We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man. James Madison
Speech at the Constitutional Convention, June 6, 1787(1751-1836)
Governors should be well principled. L’Estrange …
Governors should be well principled.
L’Estrange
Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a …
Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained. Randy E. Barnett
Randy E. Barnett, Curing the Drug-Law Addiction
Go to Manila. Go around them, go through them, but go to …
Go to Manila. Go around them, go through them, but go to Manila. General Douglas MacArthur
To General Walter Krueger, Commander of the U.S. Sixth Army, World War II.
Sometimes, the most responsible thing a person can do on election day …
Sometimes, the most responsible thing a person can do on election day is stay at home … If you really don’t know enough to cast an intelligent vote, you should be eager to let your more informed neighbors make the decision. Greg Mankiw
October 2000,
That long [Canadian
That long [Canadian] frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only be neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Speech in honour of R.B. Bennett, Canada Club, London April 20, 1939
frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded … ]
Read much, but not many books. Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790…
Read much, but not many books.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
I trust you with your own money. George W. Bush Tuesday October …
I trust you with your own money.
George W. Bush
Tuesday October 17, 2000