Page 2

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Goethe (1749-1832)

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.
Goethe (1749-1832)

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Barry Goldwater

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate. (speech, 1875)
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur

Before all else, be armed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
Julius Henry (Groucho) Marx, (1895-1977)

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it
Julius Henry (Groucho) Marx, (1895-1977)

 Middle age is when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
J. O'Rourke

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P.J. O'Rourke

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine
Sir William Osler

The most basic rule of survival in any situation is "Never look like food."
Park Ranger, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
George S. Patton

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato, (427-347 BC)

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
Plato, (427-347 BC)

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
Popular Mechanics, 1949

The person who knows HOW will always have a job
The person who knows WHY will always be his boss
Diane Ravitch

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
National Review

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.
Damon Runyon

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.
Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau

 How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
Harry S Truman (1884-1972)

A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool.
Lao Tzu

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire (1694-1778)

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.
August 1993 issue of PS magazine, the Army's preventive maintenance magazine

The patriot must always be prepared to defend his country from his government.
Ed Abbey

There is a theory that states: 'If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.' There is another theory that states: 'This has already happened....'
Douglas Adams

I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives. Massad Ayoob, 'The Truth About Self Protection'

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

Our government...teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941), U.S. Supreme Court Justice Dissenting, Olmstead v. U.S., 277 US, 438 (1928)

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Chinese Proverb

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
Quentin Crisp

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Fedor Dostoevsky

The less government we have the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
English Professor, Ohio University

The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood: the person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?
Andrew Ford

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney Harris

Statistics always reminds me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was only three feet.
Woody Hayes, Ohio State Football Coach

An armed society is a polite society.
Robert Heinlein

I wish I had a dime for every time I've been called 'diminutive.' I'm not - I'm just damn short. Michael J. Fox, actor.

31 states allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?
Andrew Ford

If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman

A jury is twelve persons who are to decide which party has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

The golden rule of conduct ... is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitas

Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any otherfactor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
R.A. Heinlein

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolph Hitler

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
C.A.R. Hoare

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
E.W. Howe