Quote of the day

[ArthurJ]

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

John Milton (1608-1674)

[ArthurJ]

Regarding the Constitution...

"We have to give reason a fighting chance against appetite, passion and ambition."

James Madison (1751-1836)

[ArthurJ]

"Beware the weak man."

Timothy Snyder

Author of:

• On Freedom
https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Timothy- ... 593728726/

• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Twenty-L ... 804190119/

and others

[ArthurJ]

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Benjamin Franklin

[ArthurJ]

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

[ArthurJ]

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

[ArthurJ]

"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none."

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

[ArthurJ]

"The freedom of the press should be inviolate."

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)

[ArthurJ]

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)

[Petr75]

"The only thing all predictions have in common is that they are wrong."

(L'Immortalité), Milan Kundera