All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
Patriots today see government in Washington as an expensive, intrusive institution that …
Patriots today see government in Washington as an expensive, intrusive institution that limits our freedoms, punishes success, invests in failure and is willing to commit our sons and daughters to far-flung adventures in the name of international comity.Today’s American patriots see many of those who govern as self-serving power brokers, interested less in the public good than in their own political potency. Oliver North
Marine Colonel Oliver North, July 4, 1995, The Guardian
To assume that [climate change
To assume that [climate change] is a problem is to assume that the state of earth’s climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn’t change. Dr. Michael Griffin
NASA Administrator , May 30, 2007 interview
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The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn’t suck is the …
The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn’t suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners. Unknown
We Americans understand freedom: we have earned it, we have lived for …
We Americans understand freedom: we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom’s models in a searching world. We can be freedom’s missionaries in a doubting world. Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater, Republican Convention, June 16, 1964 (1909-1998)
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it …
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money. Dwight D. Eisenhower
February 9, 1955 (34th President of the United States, 1890-1969)
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Benjamin Franklin Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’…
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Benjamin Franklin
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. 1706-1790
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the …
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it. Will Rogers
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our …
We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unum- out of one, many. Al Gore
Quoted in Investors Business Daily,10/25/1996. E Pluribus Unum is the motto on the Great Seal of the United States of America, and is Latin for ‘out of many, one,’ not ‘out of one, many.’
Failure to bring President Clinton to account …will cause a cancer to …
Failure to bring President Clinton to account …will cause a cancer to be present in our society for generations. James Sensenbrenner
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin (Wall Street Journal January 15, 1999 on previous days activities)