Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the
subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power,
not the increase of it." -- Woodrow Wilson
I'll pass this one on to my son:
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. - Cyrus H. Curtis (1850 - 1933)
Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always
cool and unruffled under all circumstances." - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft! - Theodore Roosevelt (1858 1919)
You are young, my son, and as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. - Plato (427 B.C - 347 B.C.)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are
willing to work and give to those who are not." - Thomas Jefferson
There are more overweight people in America than average weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. - Jay Leno
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. - Red Foxx
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheimer
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. - Confucius (551 B.C. - 479 B.C.)
"There's only one good namely knowledge
And only one evil namely ignorance."
How about now?
"When there is disaster, two things occur, change and opportunity."
-- Old Chinese Proverb
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you." -- Pericles
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
On September 11, 150 years ago, another Illinois politician to run for
president, Abraham Lincoln, said: "Our defense is in the preservation
of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all
lands, everywhere".
Goes well with the ones from the other day
“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force”
Voltaire
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson
“"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams”
Vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. - Earl Wilson
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. - Elbert Hubbard
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. - Isaac Asimov
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people, those who
work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first
group; there was less competition there." -- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared
certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless
and promptly selfdestructive." -- John W. Gardner
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an action, but
a habit." -- Aristotle
Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.
Could it be any more true?
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
Colonel Jeff Cooper - "The Art of the Rifle"
Men are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of things. - Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
I like this guy whoever he is
"An unrecognized series of errors does not constitute experience."
Louis G. Stanfield, circa 2000
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhaur (1788 - 1860)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Quote of the Day........"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama
During this political season let’s be reminded of these wise words.
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
“You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
--Abraham Lincoln
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
"The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through
automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-
keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and
wholly justifiable." -- U. S. Privacy Study Commission, in 1977 (!)
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. - Howard Aiken
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
-Edward Abbey
I just couldn't verbalize it
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the
newspaper you are misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I'm not trying to make a statement; I just thought it was appropriate in the time of elections.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire (1694-1778)
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
- Buddha
OK, not a big Oprah fan, but her quote is very true. Top 10 worthy? Dunno...
"There are no hopeless situations; There are only men who have grown hopeless
about them." -- Clare Boothe Luce
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry Truman
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Daniel L. Reardon
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. - Gil Stern
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
-- Groucho Marx
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. - Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do. - Steve Jobs (1955 - ), Business Week Online, 2004
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing." -- Albert Einstein
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. - George S. Patton
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensible. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
- Jules Renard
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
- Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
Armed men are citizens, unarmed men are subjects.
The day Microsoft makes a product that
does not suck will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
From: the Raines Cohen Apple and Mac T-shirt Exhibit at Stanford University's Apple artifacts collection.
About Raines Cohen:
For nearly 20 years, Cohen was at the heart of Mac culture: first as a co-founder of the Berkeley Mac User Group (BMUG), and then as a technical analyst for MacWeek, the seminal news weekly.
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more
I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
(hint: it's Friday)
Quote Of The Week:
"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but
none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press."
-- Mark Twain
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt, September 7, 1903
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn
how to do it." -- Pablo Picasso
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. - Stephen Hawking
I hear and forget. I see and remember. I do and understand. - Confucious (551 BC - 479 BC)
"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these journalists/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the cause by writing editorials - after the fact."
- Robert E. Lee in 1863.
[The more things change the more they remain the same.]
"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll
understand." - Confucius
"Here's my strategy on the Cold War:
We win, they lose."
- Ronald Reagan
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan
"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
- Ronald Reagan
"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."
- Ronald Reagan
"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
- Ronald Reagan
"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan
"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."
- Ronald Reagan
"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
- Ronald Reagan
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
- Ronald Reagan
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
- Ronald Reagan
"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
- Ronald Reagan
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
- Ronald Reagan
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I should have used this one last Monday
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools".
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia"
-Charles Schultz
A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day, he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Esse quam videri
"To be rather than to seem"
-Cicero 106 - 43 BC
it is not to escape from life, but to prevent life from escaping
-Unknown
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles De Gaulle
The more you read and observe about this politics thing, you have to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. - Will Rogers
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. - Isaac Asmimov
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. - Nathaniel Borenstein
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork. (Sam Ewing)
More HERE
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." -- Charles F. Kettering
Quote for the Day:
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
-Margaret Thatcher
No answer is also an answer.
- Hopi Native American proverb
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Albert Einstein
"What is 'qualified'? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what 'qualified' means. And I think people get too hung up on that anyway, you know?"
Sonny Bono, 1995, after being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is
little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able
to turn both to their advantage." -? Niccolo Machiavelli
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. - Douglas Adams (1952-2001)