"Every single empire in its
official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that
its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten,
civilize, bring order and democracy, and
that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there
always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about
benign or altruistic empires."
Edward W. Said,
"Orientalism 25 Years Later," Counterpunch.org website, 4 August 2003
"... Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg, (1878 - 1967)
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way."
Carl Sandburg
"For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt, must be redistributed."
"Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than Capitalism."
Margaret
Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood in "The Woman Rebel"
"It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put
to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like
himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior."
George Santayana, 1863-1952, Persons and Places"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
George Santayana
"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."
George Santayana
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
George Santayana
George Santayana
"There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with."
George Santayana
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Suicide in the Trenches
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
Siegfred Sassoon, (1886-1967) probably the most biting satirist of the World War I poets
"I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because
I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to
end it.
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this
war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of
aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow-soldiers
entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible
to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be
attainable by negotiation.
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to
prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and
insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which
is being practiced on them; also I believe that I may help to destroy the callous
complacence with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies
which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realize."
Siegfried L. Sassoon, Statement against the continuation of the War, July 1917
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"The primary emphasis of biblical Christianity is the teaching that the infinite-personal
God is the final reality, the Creator of all else, and that an individual can come openly
to the holy God upon the basis of the finished work of Christ and that alone. Nothing
needs to be added to Christ's finished work, and nothing can be added to Christ's
finished work."
Francis Schaeffer, (1912-1984) The Great Evangelical Disaster
"For the Reformation .... there was nothing autonomous in the area of final authority.
(F)inal and sufficient knowledge rested in the Bible, that is, Scripture alone, in
contrast to Scripture plus anything else parallel to the Scriptures, whether it be
the Church or a natural theology. Second, there was no idea of man being autonomous in the
area of salvation. In the Roman Catholic position there was a divided work of salvation
Christ died for our salvation, but man had to merit the merit of Christ. Thus there was a
humanistic element involved. The reformers said that there is nothing man can do; no
autonomous or humanistic religious or moral effort of man can help. One is saved
only on the basis of the finished work of Christ as He died in space and time in history,
and the only way to be saved is to raise the empty hands of faith and, by God's grace, to
accept God's free gift by faith alone. It was Scripture alone and faith alone."
Francis Schaeffer
"Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He
is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life,
asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift.
What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one's life forever.
Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup."
Francis Schaeffer"Only the one who has been hurt can bring healing. The other person cannot. It is the one
who has been hurt who has to be willing to be hurt again to show love, if there is to be
hope that healing will come. ... "
Francis SchaefferTOP
"Republican institutions in the hands of a virtuous and God-fearing nation are the very
best, but in the hands of a corrupt and irreligious people they are the very worst
and the most effective weapons of destruction."Philip Schaff, 1819-1893
"I think the most basic thing for Americans to realize is that this war has nothing to do
with who we are or what we believe, and everything to do with what we do in the Islamic
world. Mr. Bush, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Bush before Mr. Clinton - they all identified Islamic
militancy as being based on the hatred of Western democracy and freedom, and that's
clearly not the case. They surely don't like our way of life, but very few people are
willing to die to keep us from having primary elections or because we have freedom of the
press. Universally in the Muslim world, at least according to the most recent polling data,
American foreign policy in several specific areas is hated by Muslims. Majorities of 85-90
percent are registered as hating or resenting American policies, towards our support for
Israel, our ability to keep oil prices low, or low enough to satisfy Western consumers,
our support for Arab tyrannies from Morocco to the Indian Ocean, our support for Putin in
Chechnya."
"Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change."
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller, (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only
saving the world when they slaughter the heretics."
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
"...(L)et us continue to ask why our government chose to impose this war. The choice
reflects a fatal turn in U.S. foreign policy, in which the strategic doctrine of
containment and deterrence that led us to peaceful victory during the Cold War has been
replaced by the Bush Doctrine of preventive war. The president has adopted a policy of
"anticipatory self-defense" that is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan
employed at Pearl Harbor on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would,
lives in infamy."
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Today, It is We Americans Who Live in InfamyTOP
"We are losing our democracy to groupthink, empowered by guerilla-warfare tactics. So
most people are living in fear. Political correctness, when it first came up, was sort
of a joke. Now it's anything but. ...[I]t immobilizes so many otherwise decent people."TOP
"Biblical faith finds great power - as does its imitator, Marxism - in the conviction
that history is going its way. Or rather, that since Christ is the Lord of history,
it is going history's way. Final victory is not dependent upon how well its work is done;
rather it is assured regardless of all contingent factors. "Thy kingdom come, they will
be done on earth as it is in heaven," is not a pious wish, but a certainty. We do not
question if we shall be able to bring such a happy state of affairs into being, but rather
what our role should be in its inevitable fulfillment. Since the world's powers were
"disarmed" in Christ (Col. 2:15) their might is limited, despite the illusions of
invincibility they are able to project. The eschatology of victory is a principle theme
of the New Testament."
"Yet, we live in a world of phenomena as well as eschaton, and we must face the question
of what good the gospel of Christ is in the here and now. Ironically, those who seek their
ultimate value in the next world are the only ones able to do much good in this one.
Those in love with this present world destroy it along with themselves"Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: Christian Faith and Its Confrontation
with American Society, p. 333
"The crowning irony of this thoroughly immoral age is that more than perhaps any other it
is incessantly and unapologetically moralistic. There is nothing so brutal that it cannot
be defended with the joyous trumpeting of self-righteous satisfaction. An invasion is
called an act of love; destroying a village is an act of salvation; reducing a poor man
to perpetual dependence or killing an infant an act of compassion. There are few miserable
little despots who do not use this language. No matter how vicious the action, the
justification will be the promotion of equality, the helping of the poor, the protection
against unfair competition, the extension of compassion, the defense against wicked
imperialism or communism."
Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction, p. 267
"The cross has become a piece of jewelry, a beautiful decoration in a church, a symbol of
faith. It is difficult for us to pass back through the centuries of tradition to see
crucifixion as a form of capital punishment so horrible that polite people would not so
much as mention it. . If the idea of crucifixion was abhorrent to decent people in the
ancient world, imagine the difficulty of trying to convince them that a god - indeed, the
God - had willingly endured such a punishment."
Thomas Schmidt, A Scandalous Beauty
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"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
Charles M. Schulz, (1922 - 2000)
"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."
Charles Schulz
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
Albert Schweitzer
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of
us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
Albert Schweitzer"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring
some portion of misery to an end."
Albert Schweitzer"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but
to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is
done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which
is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression
of gratitude."
Albert Schweitzer
"Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his
own true worth."
Albert Schweitzer
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
Albert Schweitzer
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions."
William F. Scolavino
Duncan Scott
"Politics and bureaucracy are arenas of personal power that are nearly irresistible to
mediocre persons. Mediocrities in power regard the world as unsafe as long as persons of
originality and creativity are allowed freedom."
Otto Scott, Historian, (1919-2006)
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"Statistics are used by baseball fans in much the same way that a drunk leans against a
street lamp; it's there more for support than enlightenment."
Vin Scully, Broadcaster
"Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when
you don't."
"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the
newspaper."
Jerry Seinfeld, (1954- )
"Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the
indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice
when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph."
Haile Selassie, (1892-1975) Emperor of Ethiopia
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"The Yankee is compelled to toil to make the world go around."
Admiral Raphael Semmes, C.S.A.
"Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace
and harmony."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making
for, no wind is the right wind."Lucius Annaeus Seneca"We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road."
"As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it.
The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that,
even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still."Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing
when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about
toilet paper."
Rod Serling, (1924-1975) American screenwriter
TOP
"The chief cause of problems is solutions."
Eric Sevareid
"In a dream you are never eighty."
Anne Sexton
William Shakespeare, (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
"Dreams are but thoughts until their effects be tried."
William Shakespeare
"It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic
system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives
for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve:
It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy."
Albert Shanker, former President of the American Federation of Teachers [1989]TOP
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"Democracy
substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the
corrupt few."
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"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
"Man and Superman" (1903), act I
"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why
not?"
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to
them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
"Our conduct is influenced not by our experience, but by our expectations.""A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.""War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and
patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent
covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly."'Common Sense About the War'
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is
his duty.""The art of government is the organisation of idolatry."
"A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul."
"Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.""Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious
when people laugh."
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.""Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries
because you were born in it."
"Socialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be
allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed
whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be
worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you
were permitted to live you would have to live well."
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
"Life is a disease: and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of
the disease at which he lives."
"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich; that is why the bishops
dare not denounce it fundamentally."
"Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at
night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the
world."
"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken
man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
"Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive
vices."
"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind
is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another."
Gail Sheehy, (1937-, American journalist, author)
"There may they dig each other's graves, and call the sad work glory."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The White Sox were so bad when I was a kid that I can remember sitting at the kitchen
table and seeing my Old Man reading the sports page. On the front I vividly remember
seeing in big block letters...WHITE SOX's APPLING HITS 450 FT....FOUL BALL!"Jean Shepherd, 1921-1999
TOP "We will remove every obstacle - if need be, take every life, every acre of land, every
particle of property, everything that to us seems proper."Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, (war criminal), September 17, 1863
"The Government of the United States has .... any and all rights which they choose to
enforce in war - to take their lives, their homes, their lands, their everything .... war
is simply power unrestrained by constituion .... To the persistent secessionist, why,
death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better...."Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, dispatch from Vicksburg, Jan, 31, 1864
"There is a class of people (Southerners) men, women, and children, who must be killed or
banished before you can hope for peace and order."Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to Secretary of War Stanton, June 21, 1864
"Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it, but the utter destruction
of its roads, houses, and people will cripple their military resources..."Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to Gen. Grant, Oct. 9, 1864
"The people of the South .... see .... the sure and inevitable destruction of all their
property .... They see in the repitition of such raids the inevitable result of
starvation and misery."Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, communique, Jan. 21, 1865
"Freedom of speech and freedom of the press, precious relics of former history, must not
be construed too largely."General William Tecumseh Sherman, Sherman's Other War
"War is simply power unrestrained by constitution or compact."General William Tecumseh Sherman
"The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed next year, for
the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed
or be maintained as a species of paupers."General William Tecumseh Sherman
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all
hell."General William Tecumseh Sherman
"Inside prisons, hospitals, and schools, a society's vision and morality are on vivid
display against the backdrop of its ideals."
David K. Shipler
"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
Edgar A. Shoaff
"The people of true prayer are those who can see the answer when it is given in God's way,
not theirs."
Helen Shoemaker
"The greatest threat to the future of our nation - to our freedom - is not foreign military
aggression... but the growing dependence of the people on a paternalistic government. A
nation is no stronger than its people and the best measure of their strength is how they
accept responsibility. There will never be a great society unless the materialism of the
welfare state is replaced by individual initiative and responsibility."
Charles B. Shuman
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2040, it may be that only a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious
fundamentalists will defend the view that every human life, from
conception to death, is sacrosanct." Peter Singer, "Ethicist", Full article here |
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"Yes, if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole. Many
people find this shocking, yet they support a woman's right to have an abortion."
Peter Singer, answering the question, 'Would you kill a disabled baby?'
(Well yeah, baby-schmaby, born or unborn. What's the difference? He's consistent! RAB)
"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judaeo-
Christian Religious tradition."
Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton
University
"One of the things that causes a problem for the animal movement is the strong strain of
fundamentalist Christianity that makes a huge gulf between humans and animals, saying
humans have souls but animals do not. That kind of attitude is a problem in getting people
to think of animals as objects of moral value."
Peter Singer
"If you have a being that is not sentient, that is not even aware, then the killing of
that being is not something that is wrong in and of itself. ... I think that a chimpanzee
certainly has greater self-awareness than a newborn baby. There are some circumstances
... when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong...not like killing the chimpanzee
would be. Maybe it's not wrong at all."
"Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get
sick."
"Happy memories, like a lighted candle, light the dark places of later life."
Ruth Smeltzer
"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted."
Samuel Smiles, (1812-1904, Scottish author)
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"The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that
it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to
wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which
the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations."
Adam Smith, Scottish economist, (1723-1790)
"The game women play is men."
Adam Smith
"It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore,in kings and ministers, to
pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence, either
by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are
themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with
theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never
will."
Adam Smith, Source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations par.
II.3.36
"Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of
the importance which it gives them."
Adam Smith, Source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations par.
IV.7.160
"A true party-man hates and despises candour."
Adam Smith, Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments par. III.I.8
"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he
poor."
Alexander Smith, (1830-1867)"Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking
your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so that he can do something to you that
you wouldn't let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars,
muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians."
L. Neil Smith"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any
circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate
its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether
they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians,
regardless of what they may claim."
L. Neil Smith
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds."
Red Smith, Sportswriter
"Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man's dollar when there is a
chance to take a dollar and a quarter."
Red Smith
"There is the same difference between the tongues of some, as between the hour and the
minute hand; one goes ten times as fast, and the other signifies ten times as much."
Sydney Smith
"Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!"
Tommy SmothersTOP "When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient
is dead or fully healed."
"If we were all to bring our misfortunes into a common store, so that each person should
receive an equal share, the majority would be glad to take up their own and depart."
Socrates
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"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world." Get the bumper sticker
@ LibertyStickers.com!
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err
because this is more comfortable."
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than
anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I
do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make
mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where
it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his
principle."
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor
between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all
human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within
hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the
best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil. It is impossible to expel evil
from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person."
The Gulag Archipelago
"[N]owhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more
bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled
Soviet regime."
"To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a
rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who
would have us forget the concepts of good and evil."
"In their own country, Roosevelt and Churchill are honored as embodiments of statesmanlike worship. To us, in our Russian prison conversations, their consistent shortsightedness and stupidity stood out as astonishingly obvious . . . what was the military or political sense in their surrendering to destruction at Stalin's hands hundreds of thousands of armed Soviet citizens determined not to surrender."
"He [Churchill] turned over to the Soviet command the Cossack corps of 90,000 men. Along with them he also handed over many wagonloads of old people, women, and children. . . . This great hero, monuments to whom will in time cover all England, ordered that they, too, be surrendered to their deaths."
"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society
without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other
scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.""By means of art we are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by
reason. Like that little mirror in the fairy tales - look into it, and you will see not
yourself but, for a moment, that which passeth understanding, a realm to which no man can
ride or fly. And for which the soul begins to ache..."
"The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life
than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general
abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual
energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect
government structure or by any industrial development."
National Review, Sept. 23, 1991, p.24
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not
merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the
excision of its memory."
"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason
no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
"It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to
heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power .. . a man is
happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him."
"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience . . . from generation to
generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
"I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -
from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one
can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen
during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history."
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But
when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."
"Our envy of others devours us most of all."
"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.""In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."
"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of
the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its
prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this
is the highest achievement they can aspire to.""(I)n early democracies, as in American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual
human rights were granted because man is God's creature. That is, freedom was given to the
individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Such
was the heritage of the preceding thousand years. Two hundred or even fifty years ago, it
would have seemed quite impossible, in America, that an individual could be granted
boundless freedom simply for the satisfaction of his instincts or whims.
Subsequently, however, all such limitations were discarded everywhere in the West; a total
liberation occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great
reserves of mercy and sacrifice.
State systems were becoming increasingly and totally materialistic. The West ended up by
truly enforcing human rights, sometimes even excessively, but man's sense of responsibility
to God and society grew dimmer and dimmer. In the past decades, the legalistically selfish
aspect of Western approach and thinking has reached its final dimension and the world
wound up in a harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the glorified
technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not
redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in
the Nineteenth Century."1978 Harvard Commencement speech
"How easy it is for me to live with you, Lord!
How easy for me to believe in you,
When my spirit is lost, perplexed and cast down,
When the sharpest can see no further than the night,
And know not what on the morrow they must do
You give me a sure certainty
That you exist, that you are watching over me
And will not permit the ways of righteousness to be closed to me.
Here on the summit of earthly glory I look back astonished
On the road which through depths of despair has led me here.
To this point from which I can also reflect to men your radiance
And all that I can still reflect - you shall grant to me.
And what I shall fail you shall grant to others."Alexander Solzhenitsyn offered up this prayer when One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
was published in 1962. This was based upon his experiences in Stalin's prison camps."The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities." > End of Solzhenitsyn Quotes <
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"The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses,
but proclaims, his debts."
Robert Southey, (1774-1843) English poet and ptose writer
"War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor,
with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that
to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the
necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it."
Robert Southey
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particular group of Americans declared their independence under particular circumstances
but that they did so by appealing to -- and promising to base their particular government
on -- a universal standard of justice."
Matthew Spalding
"Real freedom means the least government - government conspicuous by its absence - with
sufficient power only to protect life, liberty, and property from frauds, thieves, and
murderers. Real freedom means the full right of ownership and to make decisions for one's
self and one's family."
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all
arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle
is contempt prior to investigation.""The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of
the future.""Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever
spending. Love is life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.""All socialism involves slavery."
"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."
"Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him."
"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter
any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they
remain free because the despotism was of their own making?"
"A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so
in the belief that he will be benefited."
Source: The Principles of Ethics Bd. II, ed. T. Machan, Indianapolis 1978, S. 242-43
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
Benedict Spinoza, (1632-1677) Dutch Philosopher"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to
speak"Benedict Spinoza
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for
benevolence, confidence, justice."Benedict Spinoza
"Still another of the frauds of these men (Northern politicians) is,
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"And the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are simply the heads, or
chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers."
Lysander Spooner, The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: 1870);
"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a
term of years."
Lysander Spooner, Source: The Constitution of No Authority
(Boston: 1870), p. 28.
"Whoever desires liberty should understand these vital facts, viz.: 1. That every man who
puts money in the hands of a "government" (so called), puts into its hands a sword which
will be used against himself, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in
subjection to its arbitrary will. 2. That those who will take his money, without his
consent, in the first place, will use it for his further robbery and enslavement, if he
presumes to resist their demands in the future.
Lysander Spooner, No Treason
"The fact is that government, like a highwayman, says to a man: "Your money or your life."
And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The
government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the
roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the
robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and
shameful."
Lysander Spooner
"The Union of Sovereign States, each state deriving its powers from its own people, and
the federal government having only those powers granted it by the states, ended when
Lincoln was allowed to eviscerate the Constitution. Lincoln did not save the Union, the
Union that the delegates founded in 1788. A new Union was created in the 1860s with power
over the states, power usurped by deception and maintained by force."
Francis W. Springer, War for What?
"We are not justified by understanding the doctrine of justification. We are justified by
Christ!"
R.C. SproulTOP
"The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, is the truth that I must
preach today, or else be false to my conscience and to God. I cannot shape the truth; I
know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. ........ I cannot find
in Scripture any other doctrine than this. It is the essence of the Bible....Tell me
anything contrary to this truth, and it will be heresy..." Spurgeon believed that the price
of ridicule and rejection was not counted so high that he should refuse to preach this
gospel: "[W]e are reckoned the scum of creation; scarcely a minister looks on us or speaks
favorable of us, because we hold strong views upon the divine sovereignty of God, and his
divine electings and special love towards His own people."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor
to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day,
to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to
God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day. My unmoving mansion of rest is my
blessed Lord."
C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional February 27
"Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will
defend itself."
"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."
"I bear my witness that the worst days I have ever had have turned out to be my best days.
And when God has seemed most cruel to me, he has then been most kind. If there is anything
in this world for which I would bless him more than for anything else, it is for pain and
affliction. I am sure that in these things the richest, tenderest love has been manifested
to me. Our Father's wagons rumble most heavily when they are bringing us the richest
freight of the bullion of his grace. Love letters from heaven are often sent in black-
edged envelopes. The cloud that is black with horror is big with mercy. Fear not the
storm. It brings healing in its wings, and when Jesus is with you in the vessel, the
tempest only hastens the ship to its desired haven."
"I do not serve the god of the Arminians at all; I have nothing to do with him, and I do
not bow down before the Baal they have set up; he is not my God, nor shall he ever be; I
fear him not, nor tremble at his presence ... The God that saith today and denieth
tomorrow, that justifieth today and condemns the next...is no relation to my God in the
least degree. He may be a relation of Ashtaroth or Baal, but Jehovah never was or can be
his name."
"[I]t is often said that the doctrines we believe have a tendency to lead us to
sin....I ask the man who dares to say that Calvinism is a licentious religion, what he
thinks of the character of Augustine, or Calvin, or Whitefield, who in successive ages
were the great exponents of the systems of grace; or what will he say of the Puritans,
whose works are full of them? Had a man been an Arminian in those days, he would have been
accounted the vilest heretic breathing, but now we are looked upon as the heretics, and
they as orthodox. We have gone back to the old school; we can trace our descent from the
apostles. ... We can run a golden line up to Jesus Christ Himself, through a holy
succession of mighty fathers, who all held these glorious truths; and we can ask concerning
them, "Where will you find holier and better men in the world?"
"No doctrine is so calculated to preserve a man from sin as the doctrine of the grace of
God. Those who have called it 'a licentious doctrine' did not know anything at all about
it. Poor ignorant things, they little knew that their own vile stuff was the most
licentious doctrine under Heaven."
"The tendency of Arminianism is towards legality; it is nothing but legality which lays
at the root of Arminianism. ... Do you not see at once that this is legality -- that this
is hanging our salvation upon our work -- that this is making our eternal life to depend
upon something we do? Nay, the doctrine of justification itself, as preached by an
Arminianism, is nothing but the doctrine of salvation by works...."
"If you believe that everything turns upon the free-will of man, you will naturally have
man as its principal figure in your landscape."
"Thankfulness makes much of little."
"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to
themselves for salvation."
"[T]here is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what
nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the
gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach
justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His
dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable,
conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it
upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ
wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away
after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of
damnation"
"Salvation is all of grace; damnation all of sin. Salvation of God from first to last the
Alpha and the Omega; but damnation of men not of God: and if you perish, at your own hands
must your blood be required"
"Free will has carried many souls to hell but never a soul to heaven."
Regarding Total Depravity and Irresistible Grace:
"When you say, "Can God make me become a Christian?" I tell you yes, for herein rests the
power of the gospel. It does not ask your consent; but it gets it. It does not say, "Will
you have it?" but it makes you willing in the day of God's power....The gospel wants not
your consent, it gets it. It knocks the enmity out of your heart. You say, I do not want
to be saved; Christ says you shall be. He makes our will turn round, and then you cry,
"'Lord save, or I perish!"
Regarding Unconditional Election:
"I do not hesitate to say, that next to the doctrine of the crucifixion and the
resurrection of our blessed Lord - no doctrine had such prominence in the early Christian
Church as the doctrine of the election of grace. And when confronted with the discomfort
this doctrine would bring, he responded with little sympathy: "'I do not like it [divine
election],' saith one. Well, I thought you would not; whoever dreamed you would?"
Regarding Particular Atonement:
"[I]f it was Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably has he been disappointed,
for we have His own testimony that there is a lake which burneth with fire and brimstone,
and into that pit of woe have been cast some of the very persons who, according to the
theory of universal redemption, were bought with His blood." "He has punished Christ, why
should He punish twice for one offence? Christ has died for all His people's sins, and if
thou art in the covenant, thou art one of Christ's people. Damned thou canst not be.
Suffer for thy sins thou canst not. Until God can be unjust, and demand two payments for
one debt, He cannot destroy the soul for whom Jesus died." "David was not a believer in
the theory that the world will grow worse and worse, and that the dispensations will wind
up with general darkness, and idolatry. Earthís sun is to go down amid tenfold night if
some of our prophetic brethren are to be believed. Not so do we expect, but we look for a
day when the dwellers in all lands shall learn righteousness, shall trust in the Saviour,
shall worship thee alone, 0 God, ìand shall glorify thy name.î The modern notion has
greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to he
unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours
God, nor inspires the church with ardour. Far hence be it driven."
The Treasury of David, Vol. IV, p.102
"I pray that you so live, that when you stand over your child's dead body, you may never
hear a voice coming up from the clay, "Father, your negligence was my destruction. Mother,
your prayerlessness was the instrument of my damnation."
My thanks to Ryan K for his kind submission of the Spurgeon quote above. RAB, webmaster
"Christ sends none away empty but those who are full of themselves."
"Evil for good is devil-like.
Evil for evil is beast-like.
Good for good is man-like.
Good for evil is God-like."
"Ah! the bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have
gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their
trampings now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. They come by
their thousands, by their myriads; e'er since the day when Christ first entered into His
glory, they come, and yet never a stone has sprung in that mighty bridge. Some have been
the chief of sinners, and some have come at the very last of their days, but the arch has
never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support; it
will bear me over as it has borne them."
"If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he
thinks you to be. If he charges you falsely on some point, yet be satisfied, for if he
knew you better he might change the accusation, and you would be no gainer by the
correction. If you have your moral portrait painted and it is ugly, be satisfied, for it
only needs a few blacker touches, and it would be still nearer the truth."
Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 34 [1888]
"I must confess I never would have been saved if I could have helped it. As long as I
could, I rebelled and revolted and struggled against God. When he would have me pray, I
would not pray. When he would have me listen to the sound of the ministry, I would not.
And when I heard, and the tear rolled down my cheek, I wiped it away and defied him to
melt my heart. Then he gave me the effectual blow of grace, and there was no resisting
that irresistible effort. It conquered my depraved will and made me bow myself before the
scepter of his grace. And so it is in every case. Man revolts against his Savior, but
where God determines to save, save he will. God never was thwarted yet in any one of his
purposes. Man does resist with all his might, but all the might of man, tremendous though
it be for sin, is not equal to the majestic might of the Most High."
New Park Street Pulpit, Vol. 4 [1858]
"I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him
crucified unless we preach what is nowadays called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it
Calvinism; Calvinism is the Gospel and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the
Gospel... unless we preach the sovereignty of God in his dispensation of grace; nor
unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of
Jehovah. Nor do I think we can preach the Gospel unless we base it upon the special and
particular redemption of his elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the
cross; nor can I comprehend the Gospel which allows saints to fall away after they are
called."
"But when we have no commentator or minister we still have the Holy Spirit. Let me tell
you a little secret: Whenever you cannot understand a text, open your Bible, bend your
knees, and pray over that text.* If it does not split into atoms and open itself, try
again. If prayer does not explain it, it is one of the things God did not intend you
to know, and you may be content to be ignorant of it."
"I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need."
"I believe in the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not
chosen me I would never would have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was
born, or else he never would have chose me afterward. I only know this, that if He had
not sought me out, I would never have come to Him."
"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of."
"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented
hypocrite."
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
"The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He
who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his
own."
End of Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty."
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, (1766-1817) French author
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"Those
who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide
everything." Josef Stalin |
"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union."
Josef Stalin, Mass murderer, (1879-1953)
"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
Josef Stalin
"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom
it is aimed."
Josef Stalin
"Our prejudicies are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often needed, but
seldom minded."
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, (1694-1773)
"Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the
circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of
human weal and woe - the open sesame to every soul."Elizabeth Stanton, (1815-1902) US reformer
"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual
responsibility."Elizabeth Stanton
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is
in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of
light and life no longer flow into our souls."Elizabeth Stanton
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"When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."" Willie Stargell, 1981, (1940-2001) HOF |
"We must either be praying or fainting--there is no other alternative. The purpose of all
faith is to bring us into direct, personal touch with God. True prayer is an awareness of
our helpless need, an acknowledgment of divine adequacy. For Jesus, prayer was as
necessary as breathing, the very breath of His life. Although God certainly knows all our
needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise, and enables us to
participate in God's personal plans of our lives."
Ray C. Stedman, Talking to My Father
"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising
uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the
public."
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, (1879 - 1962)
"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins
with the finished product."
Edward Steichen, (1879-1973) American photographer
"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage
that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was
light itself."Edward Steichen"No photographer is as good as the simplest camera."Edward Steichen"Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things."Edward Steichen"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the
earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It
is a major force in explaining man to man."Edward Steichen"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the
most complicated thing on earth."Edward Steichen"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist
that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form
to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."Edward Steichen"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea
was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about
that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."Edward Steichen"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth
consideration."Edward Steichen"You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a
canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out
to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.Edward SteichenTOP "The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are
undecided."
Casey Stengel, former Major League manager, (1891-1975)
"I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill."Casey Stengel
"Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits."
Casey Stengel"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
George Stephanopolous, Clinton's aide speaking on Larry King Live
"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We
should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions."Sir Leslie Stephen, (1832-1904), literary essayist, author Source: The Suppression of
Poisonous Opinions, 1883TOP "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it
behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us."Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, (1850-1894)
"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend"
Robert Lewis Stevenson
"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at
your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we
have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in
North Korea."
Jon Stewart
"With the situation in Iraq growing ever more dangerous, the 34-member Coalition of The
Willing are, one by one, dropping out to join the other coalition known as Most of The
Rest of The World."
Jon Stewart
"While our young men and women battle valiantly in Iraq, the older men and women who sent
them there are locked in a similar struggle -- albeit rhetorical -- carefully choosing
their fighting words over here, because they'll never have to actually go over there."
"Two characteristics of government are that it cannot do anything quickly, and that it
never knows when to quit."
George Stigler
"The object of the state is always the same; to limit the individual, to tame him, to
subordinate him, to subjugate him."
"########### tells lies about women. But ########### tells the truth about men."
"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have
your heart go walking around outside your body."
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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.""The days of the digital watch are numbered."
Tom Stoppard
"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"
Tom Stoppard
"Many politicians assume that their getting to power is the answer; then they can do good.
Jesus understands that getting to power is not the answer; instead, unqualified submission
to God is required to do anything good. The beginning, middle and end of politics is
obedience to God."
Alan Storkey, Jesus and Politics, p. 78 (on the temptation of Jesus)
"Those who live politically for peace, gentleness, law-abiding, and justice invite
suffering and attack. Thoroughgoing good politics is not recognised as strong in a sinful
world. What we see at the trial of Jesus is more normal than we would like to pretend."
Alan Storkey, Jesus and Politics, p. 273 ( on the crowd chosing Barabbas)TOP "There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize
Christianity as laying at its foundation."Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, (1779-1845)
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens.
They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be
honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to
betray them."
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
"Sometimes I think the type of people who run for office are the most dangerous people.
Most of us want to run our own lives, or help people by offering them charity, or selling
them things. The people who want to run other people's lives are...different. In pursuit
of their vision of the perfect world, they justify even absurd restrictions on our freedom.
For example:"In Belton, Mo., it is illegal to throw a snowball. In New Jersey and Oregon, it is
illegal to pump your own gas. In Kern County, Calif., it is illegal to play bingo while
drunk. In Illinois, it is against the law to hunt bullfrogs with a firearm. In
Massachusetts, it's illegal to deface a milk carton. In Fairfax, Va., the use of pogo
sticks is outlawed on city buses. In Palm Harbor, Fla., it is illegal to have an artificial
lawn."...The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are
the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office."John Stossel, Journalist for ABC News
"Since Jesus had no sin either in his nature or in his conduct, he need never have died
either physically or spiritually. ... Then why did he do it? What was the rationale of
his death? There is only one possible, logical, biblical answer. It is that he died for
our sins, not his own. The death he died was our death, the penalty which our sins had
richly deserved."
John Stott, Our Guilty Silence
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you have to
concentrate on."
Robert S. StraussTOP
"The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better,
able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the
Church's greatest ornament...."
Marjorie Suchocki
"The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it
does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works and votes--generally he prays--but
his chief business in life is to pay."William Graham Sumner, (1840-1910) Political scientist and author
"War is never a handy remedy, which can be taken up and applied by routine rule. No war
which can be avoided is just to the people who have to carry it on, to say nothing of the
enemy. . . . In the forum of reason and deliberation war never can be anything but a
makeshift, to be regretted; it is the task of the statesman to find rational means to the
same end."
TOP "When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the
dunces are all in confederacy against him."Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish author and satirist, (1667-1745)
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very
definition of slavery."Jonathan Swift
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."Jonathan Swift
"We have just enough religion to hate, but not enough to love one another."
Jonathan Swift
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Jonathan Swift
"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."
Jonathan Swift
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure,
which is -- try to please everybody."
"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now,
when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
Thomas Szasz
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