Post by Flying Horse on Jun 22, 2012 13:48:18 GMT -5
Some quotes about liberty, politics, etc.
"A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values."
-- Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) Prime Minister of Canada (1968-1979, 1980-1984)
"If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?"
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), US civil rights leader
"Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous."
-- Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
"I believe that the community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence, where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the
eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose."
-- Learned Hand(1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals
Source: Speech, New York University, 24 October 1952
"One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice/
Source: Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1081 (1896) (opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts).
"In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves."
-- Jack Horner[/img]Source: on the eighty years between Darwin's "On the Origin of Species and the nuclear bomb," [/i]Time, 26 April 1993
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"A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values."
-- Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) Prime Minister of Canada (1968-1979, 1980-1984)
"If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?"
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), US civil rights leader
"Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous."
-- Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
"I believe that the community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence, where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the
eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose."
-- Learned Hand(1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals
Source: Speech, New York University, 24 October 1952
"One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice/
Source: Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1081 (1896) (opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts).
"In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves."
-- Jack Horner[/img]Source: on the eighty years between Darwin's "On the Origin of Species and the nuclear bomb," [/i]Time, 26 April 1993
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