Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, …
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)
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[F]ar from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector. We have sent men and women from the armed forces of the United States to other parts of the world throughout the past century to put down oppression. We defeated Fascism. We defeated Communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II. We were willing to do it, glad to do it. We went to Korea. We went to Vietnam. All in the interest of preserving the rights of people. And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do? Did we stay and conquer? Did we say, ‘Okay, we defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs to us? We defeated Japan, so Japan belongs to us’? No. What did we do? We built them up. We gave them democratic systems which they have embraced totally to their soul. And did we ask for any land? No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead. And that is the kind of nation we are. Colin Powell
‘MTV Global Discussion’ on February 14, 2002, after being asked how he felt representing a country commonly perceived as ‘the Satan of contemporary politics.’
The more morals and taboos there are, The more cruelty afflicts people; …
The more morals and taboos there are,The more cruelty afflicts people;The more guns and knives there are,The more factions divide people;The more arts and skills there are,The more change obsoletes people;The more laws and taxes there are,The more theft corrupts people. The Tao Te Ching
(The Tao favors a minimalist approach to governance, one which allows the people to solve their own problems. The verses quoted are from various translations of 57, 58, and 75.)
I was killing fascists when you punks were in diapers. George Wallace …
I was killing fascists when you punks were in diapers.
George Wallace
Democrat, 1968, to hippies who said he was a Nazi
I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s …
I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience. Ronald Reagan
President Ronald Reagan, 1984 debate with Walter Mondale
I realize now how many evil, incredibly selfish beings are out there, …
I realize now how many evil, incredibly selfish beings are out there, doing exactly what they want to do, at an unfathomable cost to others – to all of the good people who spend their whole lives trying to be functioning, contributing, positive forces in society. John Walsh
in Tears of Rage
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I …
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose- because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted, or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
I know many people are going to be disappointed in what we …
I know many people are going to be disappointed in what we do, but what we are going to do is we are going to begin to make government smaller. Phil Gramm
Phil Gramm, USA Today, November 14, 1994
The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely …
The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these others men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after men. Thomas Arnold
English educator; father of Matthew Arnold (1795-1842)