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2011 November 04
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"Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn." |
"One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic." |
"All go free when multitudes offend.
[Lat., Quicquid multis peccatur inultum est.]" |
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2011 November 03
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"David Rockefeller, President of Chase Manhattan Bank,
briefed President Johnson today on his recent meeting
with Premier Nikita Khrushchev of Russia." |
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2011 November 02
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"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen
but by him who resists it." |
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"It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass." |
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2011 November 01
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"Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free." |
"Among the natural Rights of the Colonists are these: First, a Right to Life; secondly, to Liberty; thirdly, to Property; together with the Right to support and defend them in the best Manner they can. Those are evident Branches of, rather than Deductions from, the Duty of Self-Preservation, commonly called the first Law of Nature." |
"God who gave us life gave us liberty.
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure
if we have removed their only firm basis:
a conviction in the minds of men
that these liberties are the gift of God?
That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just;
that His justice cannot sleep forever." |
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2011 October 31
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"In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,
--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them.
This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations." |
"The man who stands upon his own soil,
who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,
-- by the laws of civilized nations,
-- he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills,
is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence,
not easily imbibed from any other source." |
"To have freedom is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to
enable us to be what we ought to be, and to possess what we ought to possess." |
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