Quotations for remlaPS email
These are the quotations I use in my e-mails. They're randomly
moved in and out of my sig file at the whim of the computer. The
whole set is listed here and checked daily through cron. If a
quote made it into this list, than I stumbled across it on the
web or in a book and it made me think or it made me laugh or
otherwise struck a chord of resonance within my mind.
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Date archived: May 14 2012
"It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that
the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford
complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national
authority. Projects of usurpation cannot be masked under pretenses so
likely to escape the penetration of select bodies of men, as of the
people at large.
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can
discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of
civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt
a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the
resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each
other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the
protection of their common liberty."
==> Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #28
Date archived: Apr 22 2012
"... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the
operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect
every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and
the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State
Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty."
==> James Madison
Date archived: Apr 22 2012
"There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that
every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the
commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act,
therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid."
==> Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #78
Date archived: Mar 12 2012
"...there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin
is a variation of theft...When you kill a man, you steal a life. You
steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When
you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat,
you steal the right to fairness...There is no act more wretched than
stealing. A man who takes what's not his to take, be it a life or a
loaf of naan...I spit on such a man...If there's a God out there, then
I would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking
scotch or eating pork."
==> Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
Date archived: Feb 04 2012
"... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men
consciously contrive"
==> F. A. Hayek (The Fatal Conceit)
Date archived: Dec 21 2011
"Libertarians are incapable of being a racist because racism is a
collectivist idea. You see people in groups. A civil libertarian,
like myself, sees everybody as an important individual".
==> Ron Paul
Date archived: Dec 11 2011
"A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on."
==> Charles Haddon Spurgeon (from an 'old proverb')
Date archived: Nov 30 2011
"Taxation without representation is tyranny"
==> James Otis
Date archived: Nov 27 2011
"The basis of democracy is defined to be liberty, which includes
the principle that 'all should rule and be ruled in turn'."
==> Aristotle
Date archived: Nov 26 2011
"The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most
ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies."
==> Thomas Paine (The Rights of Man)
Date archived: Oct 26 2011
"Show me a polluter, and I'll show you a subsidy"
==> Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Date archived: Oct 04 2011
"What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the
government can support us, when we support the government."
==> Rose Wilder Lane
Date archived: Sep 26 2011
"One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American
people is economy in government."
==> Calvin Coolidge
Date archived: Sep 18 2011
"There is only one god, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing
we say to Death: Not today."
==> Game of Thrones
Date archived: Sep 17 2011
"Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works."
==> Frederic Bastiat
Date archived: Sep 16 2011
"Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving"
==> Frederic Bastiat
Date archived: Sep 03 2011
"The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve
simultaneous centralization and decentralization"
==> K. E. Weick
Date archived: Sep 03 2011
"A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do
the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide
parameters around the power of officials."
==> Kevin Gutzman
Date archived: Sep 02 2011
"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and
of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of
family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger
and you become less free."
==> Harry Browne
Date archived: Aug 21 2011
"...the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression
is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind."
==> Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 27, 1788
Date archived: Aug 19 2011
"Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just
ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid."
==> Penn Jillette (http://goo.gl/b9gBu, CNN, Aug 16 2011)
Date archived: Aug 01 2011
"Managers need timely information and rarely worry that their interruptions
of subordinates may impede the progress that they are so anxious to measure"
==> Paul Glen
Date archived: Jul 21 2011
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion -
when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission
from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to
those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men
get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't
protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you
see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice -
you may know that your society is doomed."
==> Francisco D'Anconia's speech on "The Meaning of Money", Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
Date archived: Jul 15 2011
"Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
==> Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Date archived: Apr 01 2011
"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally
authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping
an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
==> Barack Obama
Date archived: Mar 31 2011
"Notice: It's OK to print this email. Paper is a biodegradable, renewable,
sustainable product made from trees. Growing and harvesting trees provides
jobs for millions of Americans. Working forests are good for the environment
and provide clean air and water, wildlife habitat and carbon storage. Thanks
to improved forest management, we have more trees in America today than we
had 100 years ago."
Date archived: Feb 02 2011
"It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself."
==> Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia, 1790)
Date archived: Jan 27 2011
"I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has
been special privileges granted by government"
==> Milton Friedman
Date archived: Dec 07 2010
"Barack Obama will bring real change by cutting taxes for middle-class
families and small businesses, paying for all his proposals to reduce
the deficit, and will put America on a path towards fiscal responsibility
and a stronger economy."
==> Barack Obama, 2008
Date archived: Nov 10 2010
"The first thing I have at heart is American liberty;
the second thing is American union;"
==> Patrick Henry, Anti Federalist Paper#34
Date archived: Oct 31 2010
"Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from
those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in
the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law."
==> F.A. Hayek , The Road to Serfdom, p.112
Date archived: Oct 29 2010
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the
property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary
power, they put themselve into a state of war with the people, who are
thereupon absolved from any further obedience"
==> John Locke
Date archived: Sep 28 2010
"If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over
the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state."
==> Kevin D. Williamson
Date archived: Sep 22 2010
"This year, the average American worked 231 days just to support
government, which consumes 63.41 percent of national income."
==> Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)
Date archived: Sep 18 2010
"Should the general government in any of its departments violate
the provisions of the constitution, it rests with the states, and
with the people, to apply suitable remedies."
==> Resolutions of Pennsylvania Against the Banks (January 11, 1811)
Date archived: Aug 11 2010
"The issue is spending, first and foremost. You'd really be amazed
at how much Government you'd never miss."
==> Mitch Daniels
Date archived: Jul 25 2010
"A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves"
==> Bertrand de Jouvenel.
Date archived: Jun 22 2010
"This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man
who's lost everything. Give him back something broken."
==> Stephen R. Donaldson
Date archived: Jun 12 2010
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny
individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
==> Ayn Rand
Date archived: Jun 09 2010
"Government rules the present. Literature rules the future."
==> Lord Acton
Date archived: Jun 09 2010
"Official truth is not actual truth."
==> Lord Acton
Date archived: Jun 09 2010
"It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves
than people fit to govern others."
==> Lord Acton
Date archived: May 06 2010
"The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of
the government for special advantage"
==> Richard Lindzen
Date archived: Apr 28 2010
"B students work for C students. A students teach."
==> P.J. O'Rourke
Date archived: Apr 26 2010
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
==> Mohandas Gandhi
Date archived: Apr 26 2010
"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?"
==> Mohandas Gandhi
Date archived: Apr 26 2010
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than
a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
==> Mohandas Gandhi
Date archived: Apr 26 2010
"Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will."
==> Mahatma Gandhi
Date archived: Mar 13 2010
"Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly"
==> William Penn
Date archived: Mar 13 2010
"It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of
consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by
true obedience to rules of their own making. "
==> William Penn
Date archived: Mar 13 2010
"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong,
even if everyone is for it."
==> William Penn
Date archived: Mar 13 2010
"Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by
the one but often suffers by the other."
==> William Penn
Date archived: Feb 24 2010
"Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to
our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It
is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to
leave liberty to them."
==> Pennsylvania Representative John Dickinson, 1774
Date archived: Dec 08 2009
"Consensus is not a natural state for humans...
It is unnatural and occurs through force."
==> The Air Vent weblog
Date archived: Nov 20 2009
"If you want them to RTFM, make a better FM"
==> http://mnmal.tumblr.com/post/249575328/i-think-this-summarizes-everything
Date archived: Oct 28 2009
"For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of
unemployment through government planning, and the more the
plans fail, the more the planners plan."
==> Ronald Reagan
Date archived: Sep 09 2009
"Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign."
==> John Stuart Mill
Date archived: Aug 20 2009
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,
in five years there would be a shortage of sand.."
==> Milton Friedman
Date archived: Jul 31 2009
"Free cheese is only found in mousetraps."
==> Russian proverb
Date archived: Jul 31 2009
"Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the
former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the
latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse,
the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state
is but a necessary evil."
==> Thomas Paine
Date archived: Jul 31 2009
"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave
little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different,
but have different origins."
==> Thomas Paine
Date archived: Jul 22 2009
"He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument"
==> Thomas Paine
Date archived: Jul 22 2009
"Our present condition is, Legislation without law;
wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name;
and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence
contending for dependence."
==> Thomas Paine
Date archived: Jun 25 2009
"Time and space are modes by which we think, not conditions in which
we live"
==> Albert Einstein
Date archived: Jun 12 2009
"The purpose of government is for those who run it to
plunder those who do not."
==> Thomas DiLorenzo
Date archived: Jun 12 2009
"It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something."
==> John Wayne
Date archived: May 31 2009
"Our society is moving steadily in the direction where no one is
responsible for what he himself did but we are all responsible for
what somebody else did."
==> Thomas Sowell
Date archived: May 04 2009
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day;
but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued
unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a
deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."
==> Thomas Jefferson
Date archived: May 04 2009
"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it?
Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom?
==> Thomas Jefferson
Date archived: Mar 17 2009
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom,
those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active
and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number
of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
==> Voltaire
Date archived: Mar 01 2009
"Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money
we do not have on things we do not need?"
==> Bobby Jindal
Date archived: Feb 20 2009
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to
provide new Guards for their future security."
==> Declaration of Independence
Date archived: Feb 19 2009
"To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been
mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must
never allow our leaders to make again"
==> Ronald Reagan
Date archived: Feb 15 2009
"One of these days, you and I, are going to spend our sunset years
telling our children and our children's children what it once was
like in America, when men were free."
==> Ronald Reagan
Date archived: Feb 02 2009
"We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on
stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them"
==> Jacob Sullum - Reason Hit & Run (2/2/9)
Date archived: Jan 22 2009
"... What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted
beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us
for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether
our government is too big or too small, but whether it works..."
==> Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 20 Jan 2009
Date archived: Jan 15 2009
"Is it really true that political self interest is nobler somehow than
ecomomic self interest?"
==> Milton Friedman
Date archived: Dec 30 2008
"Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable
limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay."
==> United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 24
Date archived: Nov 20 2008
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution
which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence,
the money of their constituents."
==> James Madison
Date archived: Oct 22 2008
"The single most important thing you can do to get elected
is to have street money!"
==> Ed Rendell
Date archived: Sep 24 2008
"Journalists and citizens may disagree on the proper role of the
news media in a free society. But when the press finds itself
protecting the guilty at the expense of the innocent, it's made
a wrong turn somewhere."
==> Chicago Tribune editorial
Date archived: Sep 19 2008
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the
individual who can labor in freedom."
==> Albert Einstein
Date archived: Sep 19 2008
"Every advocate of central planning -- always -- envisions
himself as the central planner."
==> Kip's Law
Date archived: Aug 01 2008
"We will start by cleaning up Congress, breaking the link between
lobbyists and legislation and commit to pay-as-you-go, no new
deficit spending."
==> Nancy Pelosi, One Hundred Hours (Nov 7, 2006)
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-nancy-pelosi/one-hundred-hours_b_33529.html)
Date archived: Aug 01 2008
"We will energize America by achieving energy independence"
==> Nancy Pelosi, One Hundred Hours (Nov 7, 2006)
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-nancy-pelosi/one-hundred-hours_b_33529.html)
Date archived: Jul 25 2008
"Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing
underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now
a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will
completely disappear during the summer months."
==> Al Gore (July 18, 2008)
Date archived: Jun 04 2008
"One man's green job is another man's pink slip"
==> William Yeatman
Date archived: May 27 2008
"The claim that President George W. Bush would be the first
president since Hoover to lose jobs in his first term proved
false, yet journalists repeated it more often than Democratic
operatives."
==> http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2008/GreatDepression/GreatDepression_execsum.asp
Date archived: Apr 15 2008
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is
the stuff life is made of."
==> Benjamin Franklin
Date archived: Mar 06 2008
"There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people
by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent
and sudden usurpation."
==> James Madison
Date archived: Mar 06 2008
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or
no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
==> Thomas Jefferson
Date archived: Mar 06 2008
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government."
==> Thomas Jefferson
Date archived: Mar 06 2008
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
and car keys to teenage boys."
==> P.J. O'Rourke
Date archived: Jan 08 2008
"Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of
life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good
conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
==> Thomas Jefferson
Date archived: Dec 16 2007
"Increasingly, people perceive no difference between
the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions,
and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them."
==> Michael Crichton (April 7, 1993)
Date archived: Oct 27 2007
"Better no rule than cruel rule"
==> The Frogs Desiring a King (Aesop's Fables)
Date archived: Aug 30 2007
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than
the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that
comes after it."
==> George Orwell
Date archived: Aug 30 2007
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity"
==> George Orwell
Date archived: Aug 30 2007
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
==> George Orwell
Date archived: Aug 11 2007
"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than
from the arguments of its opposers."
==> William Penn
Date archived: Jul 11 2007
"We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can
enjoy music by waiting for the final note."
==> Vernon Howard
Date archived: Jul 11 2007
"Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended,
for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air."
==> Vernon Howard
Date archived: Jun 24 2007
"The more I think about language the less possible it seems to me
that we ever understand one another."
==> Kurt Godel
Date archived: May 29 2007
"A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far
more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've
encountered at the university so far."
==> Ward Churchill
Date archived: Mar 13 2007
"If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself"
==> Johnny Cash
Date archived: Mar 13 2007
"The one on the right was- on the left and the one in the middle was-
on the right and the one on the left was- in the middle"
==> Johnny Cash
Date archived: Jan 11 2007
"Mathematicians are a sort of Frenchmen; if you talk to them,
they translate it into their own language, and then it is
immediately something quite different."
==> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Date archived: Jan 11 2007
"As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done
the coming day."
==> Pythagoras
Date archived: Jan 11 2007
"Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting
on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what
left undone?"
==> Pythagoras
Date archived: Jan 02 2007
"Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do"
==> Carl Jung
Date archived: Dec 13 2006
"It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted
according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.
==> William Penn
Date archived: Oct 19 2006
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world"
==> Michael Chrichton (State of Fear)
Date archived: Oct 19 2006
"I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that there is a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders."
==> Henry D. Thoreau
Date archived: Oct 05 2006
"Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife"
==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus; Oct 2, 2006
Date archived: Oct 03 2006
"Women and Wine, Game and Deceit, Make the Wealth small, and
the Wants great."
==> Benjamin Franklin; Poor Richard, 1758
Date archived: Jul 14 2006
"So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement,
that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would
be foolish to despair of the human race."
==> Ernest L. Woodward
Date archived: Jul 14 2006
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased
at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty
God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me,
give me liberty or give me death!"
==> Patrick Henry
Date archived: Jun 19 2006
"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government
off the backs of people."
==> Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Date archived: Jun 19 2006
"If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they
pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned."
==> Supreme Court Justice Charles Evan Hughes, 1934
Date archived: Jun 19 2006
"Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and
in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high
with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law
and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and
the like."
==> Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 1969
Date archived: Jun 01 2006
"Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only
things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine."
==> Jaron Lanier (http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier03/lanier_index.html)
Date archived: May 25 2006
"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker."
==> Buddha
Date archived: May 25 2006
"Everyone needs a dog to adore him and a cat to bring him back to reality"
Date archived: May 17 2006
"The world is not given to you by your parents. It is loaned
to you by your children."
==> Kenyan proverb
Date archived: May 17 2006
"He who does not know one thing knows another"
==> Kenyan proverb
Date archived: Apr 20 2006
"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as
my telephone. My wish has come true ... I no longer know how to
use my telephone."
==> Bjarne Stroustrup
Date archived: Apr 20 2006
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose
denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator,
the smaller the fraction."
==> Tolstoy
Date archived: Apr 20 2006
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the
spirit of man."
==> David Hilbert
Date archived: Apr 20 2006
"The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the
form of beauty."
==> John Michel
Date archived: Apr 13 2006
"Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well."
==> Danish proverb
Date archived: Apr 05 2006
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
==> Albert Einstein
Date archived: Apr 04 2006
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
==> Paul Erdos
Date archived: Mar 20 2006
"Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar."
==> Benjamin Franklin
Date archived: Mar 18 2006
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
==> Robert F. Kennedy
Date archived: Mar 18 2006
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
==> Thomas A. Edison
Date archived: Mar 09 2006
"All plans are tentative"
Date archived: Mar 09 2006
"God made the positive integers; all else is the work of man."
==> Leopold Kronecker
Date archived: Mar 05 2006
"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed"
==> William Penn
Date archived: Mar 05 2006
"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."
==> William Penn
Date archived: Mar 05 2006
"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit."
==> William Penn
Date archived: Mar 05 2006
"How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward
or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only
and the irresistible Motive to it?"
==> Benjamin Franklin
(A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain)
Date archived: Mar 05 2006
"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom."
==> Georg Cantor
Date archived: Mar 05 2006
"In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of
higher value than solving it."
==> Georg Cantor
Date archived: Mar 02 2006
"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure,
passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal."
==> James, William (1842 - 1910)
Date archived: Mar 02 2006
"The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the
forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth."
==> J.B. Shaw
Date archived: Mar 02 2006
"No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot
be demonstrated mathematically."
==> Leonardo da Vinci
Date archived: Jan 25 2006
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the
second half by our children."
==> Clarence Darrow
Date archived: Jan 25 2006
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
==> Japanese Proverb
Date archived: Jan 25 2006
"A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor"
==> English Proverb (?)
Date archived: Jan 23 2006
"A hero is a man who does what he can"
==> Romain Rolland
Date archived: Jan 07 2006
"...a government big enough to give you everything you want is a
government big enough to take from you everything you have."
==> President Gerald R. Ford
Date archived: Oct 14 2005
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is
possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something
is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
==> Arthur C. Clarke
Date archived: Oct 11 2005
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those
because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act but a habit."
==> Aristotle
Date archived: Sep 19 2005
"It is more complicated than you think."
==> RFC 1925 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html)
The Twelve Networking Truths
Date archived: Sep 12 2005
" This principle... will be found to be the grinding law of necessity,
misery, and the fear of misery."
==> Thomas Malthus (http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.10.html)
Date archived: Aug 30 2005
"If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe
the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take
apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it,
and are then surprised when the watch stops working."
==> Tolstoy, A Confession
Date archived: Aug 27 2005
"I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not
demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit."
==> Tolstoy, A Confession.
Date archived: Aug 27 2005
"One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the
scientists who say that man can exist without faith"
==> Tolstoy- The Law of Love and the Law of Violence
Date archived: Aug 11 2005
"Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself..."
==> Tolstoy- A Confession
Date archived: Aug 01 2005
"I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans
stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes,
less government, strong defense and family values"
==> Senator Byron Dorgan (Dem, N. Dakota)
Date archived: Jul 12 2005
"Most people are wrong about most things most of the time"
==> Duffy's Law
Date archived: Jul 08 2005
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many...
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
==> Charles Dickens
Date archived: Jun 30 2005
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
==> Thomas A. Edison
Date archived: Jun 04 2005
"The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the
blood of genius and of generosity."
==> Abraham Lincoln
Date archived: May 14 2005
"...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and
without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion"
==> Ben Franklin (A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain)
Date archived: May 14 2005
"All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the
utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order
of the moral than in the natural System?"
==> Ben Franklin (A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain)
Date archived: May 03 2005
"The more I see of men, the better I like my dog."
==> Blaise Pascal
Date archived: May 03 2005
"Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us
consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose,
you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is."
==> Blaise Pascal
Date archived: Mar 22 2005
"It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I
cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much
better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in
the same class."
==> Thomas Malthus (An Essay on the Principle of Population)
Date archived: Mar 16 2005
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation
that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open
market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
==> John F. Kennedy
Date archived: Mar 16 2005
"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
Date archived: Mar 16 2005
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall
pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
==> John F. Kennedy
Date archived: Feb 10 2005
"You always act incorrectly when you do not follow your own
reasoning, even if you make a mistake.
==> Thomas Aquinas (Sum of Theology)
Date archived: Feb 10 2005
"And the turtles, of course . . . all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be."
==> Dr. Seuss (Yertle the Turtle)
Date archived: Jan 20 2005
"America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their
chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or
that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies....
...Liberty will come to those who love it."
==> George W. Bush (2nd Inauguration speech, 1/20/5)
Date archived: Dec 23 2004
"Virtue, Liberty, and Independence"
==> Pennsylvania state motto
Date archived: Nov 04 2004
"Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck;
through thought I grasp it."
==> Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
Date archived: Oct 16 2004
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we
used when we created them."
==> Albert Einstein
Date archived: Sep 11 2004
"The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time."
==> Abraham Lincoln, 10/26/1862
Date archived: Sep 10 2004
"The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory."
==> Chinese Proverb
Date archived: Aug 31 2004
"That government is best which governs least"
==> Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience
Date archived: Aug 31 2004
"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists...
From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support
terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
==> George W. Bush, 9/20/2001
Date archived: Aug 26 2004
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..."
==> US Constitution - 1st Ammendment
Date archived: Aug 21 2004
"Fiscally conservative yet socially tolerant, libertarians favor
lower taxes, free trade, individual rights and limited government."
==> http://www.republicanliberty.org/libdex/libergraph.htm
Date archived: Aug 19 2004
"No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive"
==> Hank Williams Sr.
Date archived: Aug 17 2004
"...If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will
never be enslaved. This will be their great security..."
==>Samuel Adams
Date archived: Jul 06 2004
"Leave tomorrow's worries for tomorrow"
==> Unknown
Date archived: Jun 23 2004
"Intel Giveth and Microsoft taketh away" -or-
"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster."
==> Nicklaus Wirth
Date archived: Jun 23 2004
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men
stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
==> George Orwell
Date archived: Jun 23 2004
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
==> Multiple attributions
Date archived: Jun 19 2004
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
==> Bertrand Russell
Date archived: Apr 27 2004
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present
thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind."
==> Buddha
Date archived: Apr 19 2004
"Free people will set the course of history."
==> George W. Bush
Date archived: Apr 16 2004
"I disapprove of what you say but I will defend, to the death, your
right to say it"
==> Voltaire
Date archived: Apr 16 2004
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood
of patriots and tyrants."
==> Thomas Jefferson
Date archived: Apr 07 2004
"Ultimately, all moments are really one. Therefore now is eternity."
==> David Bohm
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well
tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant
of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation."
==> George Washington
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
==> Johann von Neumann
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which
has any first and foremost object but one to secure peace of mind,
spiritual comfort, for himself."
==> Mark Twain
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"Therefore, a victorious army first obtains conditions for victory,
then seeks to do battle."
==> Sun Tzu (The Art of War as translated by www.sonshi.com)
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"Unslumping yourself is not easily done."
==> Dr. Seuss (Oh the Places You'll Go)
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the
entire catalog."
==> Sears, Roebuck & Co., Consumer's Guide, 1897
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity
and confusion of things."
==> Isaac Newton
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former
on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness;
Imagine what they are when combined."
==> Galileo Galilei - Two New Sciences 1638
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"Whatever you do will be insignificant. However, it is vitally important
that you do it."
==> Gandhi
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
==> Goethe
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American
people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
==> Thomas Jefferson
Date archived: Mar 20 2004
"The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to
discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by
God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics."
==> Johannes Kepler
Date archived: Jan 02 2004
"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
==> Rene Descartes