Quotes

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

John Mayard Keynes

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.

Confucius

The consequence is very clear. Marriage loses its significance. People will stop getting married. Homosexuals will not get married; heterosexuals will stop getting married. And that to me is the real threat to the American family and to the culture generally.

Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum comment to TV preacher Pat Robertson, when the latter asked him about the consequences of gay marriage.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Vladimir Lenin

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Clarence Day