Quotes.........

[HARDCORE]

"He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."

-- Charles Peguy
(1873-1914) French poet, essayist and editor
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"The people’s right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes that they may desire to cast, for they are entitled to an active role in shaping every fundamental decision of state."
-- Edmond Cahn
Source: The Predicament of Democratic Man, 1961

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"Wherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at."

-- George Savile
(1633–1695)

[revwardoc]

“I was so poor growing up, if I hadn’t been a boy I’d have had nothing to play with on Christmas Day.”
Rodney Dangerfield

[HARDCORE]

"If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out."
-- Rabindrnath Tagore (1861-1941)
Source: Stray Birds, 1916
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"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
-- Sir James Dewar Scientist (1877-1925)

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"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."
-- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC-184 BC)
Source: Trinummus

[HARDCORE]

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
-- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)



"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
-- Groucho Marx
(1890-1977)



"I never give them hell.
I just tell the truth and
they think it's hell."
-- Harry S. Truman
(1884-1972), 33rd US President

[HARDCORE]

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."
-- Patrick Henry (1736-1799) US Founding Father
March 23, 1775
Source: Speech on the Stamp Act, Virginia Convention
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"The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever."
-- Rabbi Wayne Dosick
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"Never assume the obvious is true."
-- William Safire

[Tamaroa]

"If I ever disown repudiate or apologize for the cause for which Lee fought and Jackson died, may the lightning of heaven rend me. May the scorn of all good men and true women be my portion. Sun, moon and stars all fall on me if I cease to love the Confederacy. Tis the cause, not the fate of the cause that is glorious."

Major R.E. Wilson
1st North Carolina Sharpshooters

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I found this quote on a flyleaf of a diary stored in a file cabinet in the bowels of the Chancellorsville Visitor Center in Virginia when I was a Park Ranger there in another life. I used to spend hours down there absorbing the words of those who fought that war. They were truly gifted writers.

Bill

[HARDCORE]

"Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts."

Quote by: Kahlil Gibran
(1883-1931) Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist
Source: Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran (Anthony R. Ferris) 1962

[HARDCORE]

"Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions."
-- Alan Barth
(1906-1979) served on the editorial board of The Washington Post for thirty years
Source: The Loyalty of Free Men, 1951
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"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."
-- Alfred Adler
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"The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression."
-- Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970) Philosopher, educator
Source: Religion and Science, 1935
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[HARDCORE]

More recently, the principle that big government breeds big corruption was perhaps expressed best by humorist P.J. O'Rourke, who said:

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

[HARDCORE]

"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it."
-- Henry George (1839-1897)
Source: The Land Question, 1881