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Today we seek a moral basis for peace.… It cannot be a lasting peace if the fruit of it is oppression, or starvation, cruelty, or human life dominated by armed camps. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 29, 2006
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. —Thomas Paine
January 28, 2006
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. —Richard P. Feynman
January 27, 2006
One must not make oneself cheap here — that is a cardinal point — or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
January 26, 2006
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser. —Paul Newman
January 25, 2006
Some books are lies frae end to end. —Robert Burns
January 24, 2006
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. —William Congreve
January 23, 2006
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. —Potter Stewart
January 22, 2006
Father, whom I murdered every night but one, / That one, when your death murdered me. —Howard Moss
January 21, 2006
California is a queer place—in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. —D.H. Lawrence
January 20, 2006
Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?… / This yellow slave / Will knit and break religions, bless th’ accursed, / Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, / And give them title, knee and approbation / With senators on the bench. —William Shakespeare
January 19, 2006
This maiden she lived with no other thought / Than to love and be loved by me. —Edgar Allan Poe
January 18, 2006
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. —Daniel Webster
January 17, 2006
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. —Benjamin Franklin
January 16, 2006
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. —Robert W. Service
January 15, 2006
Winter is icummen in, / Lhude sing Goddamm, / Raineth drop and staineth slop, / And how the wind doth ramm! —Ezra Pound
January 14, 2006
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. —John Dos Passos
January 13, 2006
The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States. —Salmon P. Chase
January 12, 2006
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. —Jack London
January 11, 2006
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. —Alexander Hamilton
January 10, 2006
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. —Lord Acton
While yet it is cold January, and snow and ice are thick and solid, the prudent landlord comes from the village to get ice to cool his summer drink…. It may be that he lays up no treasures in this world which will cool his summer drink in the next. —Henry David Thoreau
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. —Thomas Jefferson
January 3, 2006
The history of mankind is the history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. —Seneca Falls Convention
January 2, 2006
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. —Isaac Asimov
January 1, 2006
To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. —Barry M. Goldwater
