Today Quotes
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.Henry Ward Beecher
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.H. L. Mencken
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.E.L. Doctorow
Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.Osama Bin Laden, BBC
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.George Orwell
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.Albert Schweitzer
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.Thomas Jefferson
