Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-06-27 Jun 27, 2002It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Jun 26, 2002When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.~ John F. KennedyMan is the only kind of varmint that sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.~ John Steinbeck Jun 25, 2002The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.~ H. L. Mencken Jun 24, 2002European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.~ SaladinA nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.~ Sir Winston ChurchillThe Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Jun 21, 2002He who dares not offend cannot be honest.~ Thomas PaineThe most formidable weapons against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.~ Thomas PaineWhen men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.~ Thomas Paine Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print