Quotes.........

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George Bernard Shaw, quotes about Family:
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
-- Confucius [Kung Fu-tse] (551-479 B.C.)


"The important thing is never to stop questioning."
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921



"History is a vast early warning system."
-- Norman Cousins (1915-1990)

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Lysander Spooner, quotes about Election:
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

George Bernard Shaw, quotes about Election:
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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Eugene McCarthy quotes about Election:
(1916-2005 ) US Congressman (D-Minnesota) & US Senator (D-Minnesota)
Source: Censorship: For And Against, 1971

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press…and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

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H. L. Mencken, quotes about Election:
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right.

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"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom;
and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech."
-- Cato
John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon (169?-1750)
Source: Letters, 1720



"Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge."
-- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor
Source: The Advancement of Learning, 1605

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"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee,
we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."
-- E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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John Quincy Adams, quotes about War:
[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.

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George Bernard Shaw, quotes about Family:
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.


How true!!!

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Samuel Adams, quotes about Usurpation:
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press:

- Concentrated Power of the Big Press.
- Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly.
- Governmental control of the press.
- Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures.
- Big Business mentality.
- Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them
from criticizing each other.
- Social blindness.
-- Max Lerner (1902-1992) US political columnist, educator



"Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment nothing can fail.
Without it nothing can succeed.
He who molds opinion is greater
than he who enacts laws."
-- Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President



"It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time
to realize that it has really nothing to say,
at the very moment when it has invented
so tremendous a trumpet for saying it."
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist
Source: Illustrated London News, 1923