Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy in his Inaugural Address in 1962, echoing a Memorial Day, 1884 address made by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., one who had fought in the Civil War.
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles …
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty. Daniel Webster
Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 93. 1782-1852
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this …
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride.This god, this one word: ‘I.’ Ayn Rand
Anthem, (1905-1982)
We don’t have the technology or the brute force capability to …
We don’t have the technology or the brute force capability to get this [encrypted] information. Louis J. Freeh
Louis J. Freeh, Director, United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, June 26, 1997, before the U.S. House of Representatives on FBI encryption. One year later a *private* organization cracked the government sponsored DES in less than 3 days. Freeh was either (1) misinformed, (2) misled, or (3) misleading people. [See Cracking DES, Electronic Frontier Foundation].
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have …
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. George Santayana
(1863 – 1952)
A zebra does not change its spots. Al Gore Attacking President George …
A zebra does not change its spots.
Al Gore
Attacking President George Bush in 1992. The Toronto Sun, 11/19/95 and the book ‘The 700 Stupidest Things Ever Said’ by Ross and Kathryn Petras, published March 1993.
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[Selfless love] would have to mean that you derive no personal pleasure or happiness from the company and the existence of the person you love, and that you are motivated only by self-sacrificial pity for that person’s need of you. I don’t have to point out to you that no one would be flattered by, nor would accept, a concept of that kind. Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person. Ayn Rand
Playboy’s Interview with Ayn Rand, (1905-1982)
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[CongressÃs constitutional] jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several States a residuary and inviolable jurisdiction over all other objects. James Madison
Federalist No. 39
We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t …
We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. Ronald Wilson Reagan
USA President , address to National Association of Realtors (March 28, 1982) Ã
You know what a Clinton is? A Clinton is when…he says …
You know what a ‘Clinton’ is? A Clinton is when…he says one thing one day and another thing the next day. You try to have both sides of the issues. Dan Quayle
1992 Debate with Al Gore (U.S. News & World Report, September 18, 2000)