My best friend was Richard, a queer. Twenty years ago, who’d have ever thought I’d be friends with a queer. I was friends with Richard for three days before I found out he was queer. He was a nice guy. I’m gonna keep in touch. Rudy Boesch
72-year old retired Navy SEAL on Survivor, August 2000
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
A representative government, responsible at short intervals of election … produces the greatest …
A representative government, responsible at short intervals of election … produces the greatest sum of happiness to mankind. Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826). (Investor’s Business Daily, November, 3, 1998)
Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and invidious that a …
Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and invidious that a state bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not invoke them in any public sphere. Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court Justice in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 (1908-1993) [not sourced]
Actually, it is foolish inconsistency that is the hobgoblin of little minds. …
Actually, it is foolish inconsistency that is the hobgoblin of little minds. Well considered consistency with all the evidence available is the hallmark of an ordered mind and ordered thought. Anyone who says otherwise is either too dumb to realize it or too dishonest to acknowledge it. Christian H F Riley
July 6, 1991
Stand your ground, Harry! Your cause is just and God will bless …
Stand your ground, Harry! Your cause is just and God will bless you! William Emerson
Concord minister to eighteen year old Harry Gould at the Battle of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail …
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly …
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Even if animal tests produced a cure (for AIDS), we’d be …
Even if animal tests produced a cure (for AIDS), we’d be against it. Ingrid Newkirk
PETA
One man with courage makes it a majority. Andrew Jackson …
One man with courage makes it a majority.
Andrew Jackson
Speak to me not of good men; Ãrather let us bind men …
Speak to me not of good men; Ãrather let us bind men down with the chains of the constitution. Thomas Jefferson
(Until the Constitution is ignored)