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 Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. E.L. Doctorow There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956) 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 4th president of US (1751 - 1836) Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22 US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 - 1804) Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government. Henry Ward Beecher US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887) 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) US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games. Earnest Hemingway To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Prefontaine Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. Henry David Thoreau, Walden US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) |