Quotations
Compiled by Bobby Garner
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth, if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." Leo Tolstoy
You're here because you know something. What you know you can't
explain -- but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life; that
there's something wrong with the world; you don't know what it is, but
it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this
feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about? The Matrix
The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both
Congresses and courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to
overthrow the men who pervert that Constitution. Abraham Lincoln,
Sept. 17, 1859, speech in Cincinnati, OH
"Mightier than the tread of marching armies is the
power of an idea whose time has come!" Victor Hugo
"Were I called upon to decide whether the people had best be omitted in
the Legislative or Judiciary department, I would say it is better to
leave them out of the Legislature. The execution of the laws is more
important than the making [of] them." Thomas Jefferson, Letter
of Thomas Jefferson to L'Abbe Arnond (July 19, 1789)
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is
ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as
self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" 1984 by
George Orwell
"Blessed are the Peacemakers, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven." Matthew
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever
you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real
loser in fees, expenses and waste of time." Abraham Lincoln
(1808-1865)
"Litigation is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a
sausage." Ambrose P. Bierce
"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the
peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been
known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that
status." David Mamet (b. 1947)
"As a collection, our statute books might be summed up as beyond the
average citizen's pocket to purchase, beyond his bookshelves to
accommodate, beyond his leisure to study and beyond his intellect to
comprehend." Sir Cecil Carr
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -- David
Hume
"Unless we put medical freedom into The Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship." George Washington's physician Dr. Benjamin Rush
"Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to
observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own
existence." [22 In. L. R. 575 (1989) quoting Mapp
v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961)].
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and
by parts." Edmund Burke (1729-97)
"The ultimate consequence of protecting men from the results of their
own folly is to fill the world with fools." Herbert Spencer
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence,
rather a condition of it." Eric M. Kaufman, Senior Reference
Librarian, New York County Lawyers' Association
"Logic does not cease to exist simply because it is ignored." --
" Lt. Tuvok, Star Trek Voyager
"You cannot solve a problem on the same level that it was
created. You must rise above it to the next level." --Albert Einstein
"This is what the Lord asks of you, only this: to act justly,
to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8
"Most interesting information comes from children, for they
tell all they know and then stop." Mark Twain
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent
revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy
Truth is stranger than Fiction, but that is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isnt. Mark Twain
