Worthy Quotations

Character

Life

Spiritual

Medical

Political

Character:

"In reality there is perhaps not one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing is more essential... than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable character." ~ Samuel Adams
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." ~ H. L. Mencken
"A lie told often enough becomes accepted truth." ~ Vladimir Lenin
"When we were kids our parents taught us not to lie. But today our Health Minister is trying to punish those who dare to speak the truth. God help that unfortunate fellow. It seems he has not received any education at home." ~ Indian Monk.
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." ~ Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." ~ Chinese proverb
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke 1729-1797
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." ~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"People are like stained-glass windows, They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day." ~ Alex Noble
"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you can do in your spare time." ~ Marion Wright Edelman
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." ~ Edward Everett Hale
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~ Helen Keller
"Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out." ~ Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530)
"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." ~ Andre Gide
"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth." ~ Billy - age 4
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Life:
"In school you get the lesson and then take the test ...
In life you take the test and then get the lesson."
~ Unknown Source
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." ~ (Schopenhauer)
"A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him." ~ Elbert Hubbard
"Will those who know what cannot be done please stop interfering with those of us who are doing it!"
"Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway." ~ Elbert Hubbard
"The library is the arsenal of liberty." ~ Unknown
"Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism." ~ Herman Hesse
"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." ~ John Henry Jowett
"Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past" ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind" ~ Author Unknown
"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality" ~ Michael Ellner
"The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing which is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors." ~ John Stuart Mill
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who still have swords. ~ Author Unknown
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." ~ Dale Carnegie
"An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one ever hears about it." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul & sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words"
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities..." ~ Voltaire
"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." ~ Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, Speaker and Author
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." ~ Author Unknown
"Desire is the treasure map. Knowledge is the treasure chest. Wisdom is the jewel. Yet, without action, they all stay buried."
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
"What we do with our lives depends on our motivation to do something with our lives." ~ D.A.Delp
"The Most Dangerous Place is between A Parent and their child" ~ Author Unknown
"Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections." ~ Author Unknown
"Knowledge is something you can use, belief is something that uses you." ~from Idries Shah, Reflections
"When I die, I want to die like my grandmother who died peacefully in her sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in her car." ~ Author Unknown
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~ Bill Cosby
"When I get a little money, I buy books; if any is left over, I buy food and Clothes" Erasmus
"Our job as mothers is in Protecting our home life from the many distractions of the world in order to live an examined life and to be hushed enough to hear God's voice. " ~ Susan Hitchcock
"The ignorance of yesterday is the knowledge of today which in turn becomes the ignorance of tomorrow." ~ Author Unknown
"Good Friends are like Diamonds, while False Friends are like Autumn Leaves found everywhere." ~ Author Unknown
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." ~ Author Unknown
"Never attribute to malicious conspiracy what can be adequately explained by simple stupidity." ~ Lazarus Long
"If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools." ~ William Penn
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened before us." ~ Helen Keller
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ~ Will Rogers
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't been in bed with a mosquito." ~ Anita Roddick
"Desire is the treasure map. Knowledge is the treasure chest. Wisdom is the jewel. Yet, without action, they all stay buried."
"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."
"Duty makes us do things well, but LOVE makes us do them beautifully." ~ Phillips Brooks
"A woman is like a tea bag; you don't know her strength until she is in hot water." ..... Nancy Reagan
"Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up." ~ Author Unknown
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." ~ Corrie Ten Boom
"A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
"For the rest of my life I want to reflect on what Light is." ~ Albert Einstein
"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home." ~ Mother Teresa
"How can you deal with the death of a parent when you can't even come to terms with their life?" ~ Author Unknown
"Money is like manure - it stinks when piled up high - but grows wonders when spread around." ~ Author Unknown
"You're gonna make mistakes. It's what you do after those mistakes that really matters." ~ Brandi Chastain
"All the gold in the world has no significance. That which is lasting are the thoughtful acts which we do for our fellow man." ~ Adolfo Prieto (1867-1945)
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Some succeed because they are destined to succeed, other because they're determined to."
"It takes approximately 40 years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought." ~ Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." ~ William Shedd
"Keep your face toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you."
"The best way to save face is to keep the lower half shut."
"Only some of us learn by other’s mistakes. The rest of us have to be the other people." ~ Chicago Tribune
"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." ~ Ann Landers
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on." ~ Winston Churchill
"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"People do not lack strength; they lack will." ~ Victor Hugo
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." ~ Erica Jong
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds." ~ Albert Schweitzer
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." ~ William Saroyan
"A really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour."
"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself." ~ Edward Gibbon
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now." ~ Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
"Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families." ~ Anonymous
"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might." ~ Marian Anderson
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." ~ Voltaire
"Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned--not to see what is not." ~ Maria Mitchell
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." ~ John Lennon
"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others." ~ Sydney J. Harris
"There are no short cuts to any place worth going." ~ Anonymous
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~ Mark Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." ~ Mark Twain
"The mighty oak was once a NUT that stood it's ground."
"There is Tranquility in Ignorance, but Servitude is its Partner."
"Insanity Is Doing The Same Thing over, and Over Again And expecting a Different Result." ~ Anthony Robbins
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." ~ Albert Schweitzer
"When you want what you have never had, you must do what you have never done. Nothing is impossible to those who believe."
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." ~ Dale Carnegie
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." ~ Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." ~ Albert Einstein
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Admiral Hyman Rickover
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice." ~ Albert Einstein
"Forgiving is not forgetting, it is remembering and letting go." ~ Claudia Black, 1989
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Spiritual:
"Fear not tomorrow ~ God is already there."
"If we were all a little more like angels, earth would be a little more like Heaven"
"To decide not to decide ~ is to decide." (Thinking about Salvation)
"If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself." ~ Augustine
"Gods" (Idols) are fragile; they can be destroyed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God." ~ George Macdonald
"Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. Oh, that God would make me more fruitful." ~ David Brainerd
"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality" ~ Michael Ellner
"Our job as mothers is in Protecting our home life from the many distractions of the world in order to live an examined life and to be hushed enough to hear God's voice. " ~ Susan Hitchcock
"There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with HIM who is to come." ~ Andrew Murray
"The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet." ~ Annie Dillard
"Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up." ~ Author Unknown
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." ~ Corrie Ten Boom
"We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they WANT with all THEIR hearts to know the SOURCE of it." ~ Madeleine L'Engle
"Strive to come up to the highest attainment of communion with God in this world, and be not contented with just so much grace as will secure you from hell - labour (labor) after such a height of grace and communion with God as may bring you into the suburbs of heaven on earth."
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." ~ Victor Hugo
"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."
Give us, O Lord, steadfast hearts that cannot be dragged down by false loves; give us courageous hearts that cannot be worn down by trouble; give us righteous hearts that cannot be sidetracked by unholy or unworthy goals. Give to us also, our Lord and God, understanding to know you, diligence to look for you, wisdom to recognize you, and a faithfulness that will bring us to see you face to face. ~ Thomas A Kempis
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Medical:
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!" ~ P.J. O'Rourke
"When it comes to understanding disease process and the true nature of what a real healing process is, modern medicine sadly lingers in ignorance. The pathetic thing is that this ignorance is promoted, fed and maintained by the profit motive. I realize that modern medicine is a business and not a healing art. Health and healing is bad for business." ~ Comment on a medical forum."
"All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the challenge of science is to find it." ~ Philippus Theophrastrus Bombast that of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541)
"Physicians give drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into humans of which they know nothing." ~ Voltaire
"If the people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality" ~ Michael Ellner
"Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic... The constitution of the Republic should make special provisions for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom."
Dr. Benjamin Rush, George Washington's personal doctor and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
"Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world." ~ Linus Pauling
"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dose makes it either a poison or a remedy." ~ Paracelsus
"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" ~ Hippocrates
"Your illness is a blessing, for it gives you the opportunity to resolve old issues and create a new reality by choosing a different probability with your God given right of free will." ~ Author Unknown
"In Med school they teach us what to think, not how to think!" ~ Author Unknown
"It's a strange law that compels children to be vaccinated in order to attend school and then disables them so they cannot attend anything."
"You see, the definition of a "hot lot" is a vaccine that has been recalled. If it hasn't been recalled, that is proof that it isn't hot. Very logical. Finding out later about a bad vaccine in the past, doesn't make it hot. After all, enough time has passed for it to have cooled down, don't you think?" Sandy from Alaska
"The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective" Dr. Len Horowitz
" ..discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher..." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." ~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests." ~ Jon Rappoport interview
"The medical monopoly or medical trust, euphemistically called the American Medical Association, is not merely the meanest monopoly ever organized, but the most arrogant, dangerous and despotic organisation which ever managed a free people in this or any other age. Any and all methods of healing the sick by means of safe, simple and natural remedies are sure to be assailed and denounced by the arrogant leaders of the AMA doctors' trust as fakes, frauds and humbugs." ~ J.W Hodge, M.D
"The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning." ~ Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." ~ Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)
"There's no way to health, health is a way..."
"Antibiotics... may be the single greatest cause of candidiasis." ~ Murray Susser, M.D.
"Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopeia." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine." ~ William Osler, M.D.
"Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach." ~ Wier Mitchel, M.D.
"The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life." ~ Paracelsus
"The art of healing comes from nature and not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature with an open mind." ~ Paracelsus
"Fluoride, once touted as an osteoporosis treatment, is, in fact, toxic to bone cells." ~ John R. Lee, M.D.
"Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time." ~ Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.
"The natural force within each one of us is the greatest healer of disease." ~ Hippocrates
"It's not what we eat or drink occasionally, but what we consume on a daily basis that determines our ongoing level of health."
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease." ~ Volaire
"We are, physically and mentally, what we eat and what we think."
"Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By taking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further embarrassed and harder to cure." ~ Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.
"There is nothing in conventional medicine today that treats chronic degenerative conditions as successfully as holistic therapies." ~ Joanne Stefanatos, D.V.M.
"What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the right drug is found?" ~ John H. Tilden, M.D.
"Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature they can only work symptomatically." ~ Hans Kusche, M.D.
"Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine." ~ Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)
"A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession." ~ Hippocrates
What if a "dirty bomb" exploded over a large segment of U.S. population that simultaneously exposed citizens to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, three strains of polio viruses, three strains of influenza, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, two types of meningitis, four strains of herpes viruses, the chickenpox virus, 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, and four strains of rotavirus.
• We would declare a national emergency.
• It would be an “extreme act of BIOTERRORISM
• The public outcry would be immense and our government would react accordingly.
And yet, those are the very organisms we inject into our babies and our small children in multiple doses, with immature, underdeveloped immunesystems, many at the same time with vaccines.
But instead of bioterrorism, we call it "protection." Reflect on that irony. ~ Dr Sheri Tenpenny, MD
"One of the worst things about becoming seriously ill is that one must place oneself in the hands of a profession one deeply mistrusts." How right he was and is! He also said, "While it is a good thing to give bakers a pecuniary interest in baking bread, it is not a good idea to give surgeons a pecuniary interest in cutting off legs." ~ Bernard Shaw
"All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the challenge of science is to find it." ~ Paracelsus (1493-1541)
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties." ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881
"Nature alone can cure disease. Doctors cannot heal. They can only direct the sufferer back to the pathways of health. Nature alone can create, and healing is re-creation." ~ Dr. Willaim S. Sadler
"Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow." ~ Dr. Alexis Carrol (Famous Biological Scientist and head of the Rockefellar Institute)
"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance."
"Our hospitals are full of practitioners and patients who have forgotten how to dance!" ~ Peter Chappell
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16 Quotes on Drugs
1. "The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians superstitiously give in order to effect a cure." Charles E. Page, M.D.
2. "Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature they can only work symptomatically." Hans Kusche, M.D.
3. "If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity" O.W. Holmes, (Prof. of Med. Harvard University)
4. "Drug medications consists in employing, as remedies for disease, those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materia medica is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs in a word poisons. All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease when brought in contact in any manner with the living; all are poisons." R.T. TraIl, M.D., (in a two and one half hour lecture to members of congress and the medical profession, delivered at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.)
5. "Every drug increases and complicates the patients condition." Robert Henderson, M.D.
6. "Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time." Daniel. H. Kress,M.D.
7. "The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning." Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
8. "Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine." Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)
9. "Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach." Wier Mitchel, M.D.
10. "The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine." William Osler, M.D.
11. "Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By taking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further embarrassed and harder to cure." Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.
12. "Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further, the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance, depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug reactions." Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, University of California)
13. "Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take that which would make a well man sick." L.F. Kebler, M.D.
14. "What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the right drug is found?" John H. Tilden, M.D.
15. "The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system will be abandoned." Charles Armbruster, M. D.
16. "We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs." Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.
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Political:
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." ~ James Madison
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." Voltaire
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." ~ Winston Churchill
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man .... which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." ~ G Gordon Liddy
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." ~ James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." ~ Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~ P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." ~ Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
"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 s tops moving, subsidize it." ~ Ronald Reagan (1986)
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." ~ Will Rogers
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other." ~ Voltaire (1764)
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!" ~ Pericles (430 B.C.)
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session." ~ Mark Twain (1866)
"Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it." ~ Unknown
"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." ~ Ronald Reagan
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." ~ Winston Churchill
"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." ~ Mark Twain
"There is no distinctly Native American criminal class ... save Congress." ~ Mark Twain
"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." ~ Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." ~ Fredric Bastiat, "The Law", 1846
"The library is the arsenal of liberty." ~ Unknown
"The school is primarily a social institution whose central purpose is not science, nor literature, nor history nor geography . . but the child's own social activities." ~ John Dewey
"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." ~ Ben Franklin
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If the people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. Lately it seems to bear a close resemblance to the first." ~ Author Unknown
"I believe there are more instances of abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations...." ~ James Madison
"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality" ~ Michael Ellner
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who still have swords." ~ Author Unknown
"Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world." ~ Linus Pauling
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise that control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not take it from them, but to inform their discretion" ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law", because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." ~Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906
"The Founding Fathers knew that even the best designed government wouldn't work if the people were not righteous, moral and God fearing - if they didn't love liberty and cherish it."
"If a nation or individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose it's freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too." ~ W. Somerset Maugham
"'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." ~ William Pitt, 1783
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
~ Martin Neimoller, reflecting upon Germany's fall to the Nazis
"Lethal injections are for criminals. We need to keep it that way." ~ Author Unknown
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could easily defeat us." ~ William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice 1939-1975
"The dangers of a government that abuses it's powers are all too real to me. The dangers of a government that allows certain vested special interest groups to do as they wish, is all to real to us all. Fair is fair - A government that fears its own people, should be feared by the people it governs."
"Love your country but fear its government." ~ N.E. folk wisdom
"1935 will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future." ~ Adolf Hitler, 'Berlin Daily', April 15th, 1935
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." ~ P.J. O'Rourke
"MTV may talk about lighting fires and killing children, but Janet Reno actually does something about it." ~ Spy Magazine
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt." ~ Cicero, 63 BC
"Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it." (Adolph Hitler)
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." ~ Samuel Adams, co-signer of the Declaration of Independence
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." ~ Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive." ~ Thomas Jefferson, February 22, 1787
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." ~ Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II
"There is Tranquility in Ignorance, but Servitude is its Partner."
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Judicial verbicide is calculated to convert the Constitution into a worthless scrap of paper and to replace our government of laws with a judicial oligarchy." ~ Senator Sam Ervin, of Watergate hearing fame
"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing." ~ Daniel Webster
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." ~ Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." ~ Albert Einstein
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." ~ James Madison.
"On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"I have sworn before the alter of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~ Thomas Jefferson, (Letter to B. Rush, Sept. 23, 1800)
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing is more essential... than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable character." ~ Samuel Adams
"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight." ~ John F. Kennedy- Columbia University, Nov. 12, 1963
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers" ~ Jose Narosky
Judge Learned Hand said: "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." Americans no longer understand what liberty means. They think it has something to do with tax-free shopping and their right never to be offended by others' opinions.
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." ~ Justice of the Supreme Court, William O. Douglas
"It is sheer folly to expect justice from the unprincipled" ~ Proverb
"Where might is master, justice is servant" ~ Proverb
"Much law, but little justice" ~ Proverb
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all" ~ Edmund Burke
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all" ~ Edmund Burke
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes". ~ John Swinton, Chief of Staff at the New York Times (toast at the New York Press Club, 1880)
http://www.constitution.org:80/pub/swinton_press.htm
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." ~ Frederick Douglass 1857
"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight." ~ John F. Kennedy - Columbia University, Nov. 12, 1963
"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"To hold a pen is to be at war." ~ Voltaire
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Rome did not die from lack of the right social programs. Rome died for lack of Men." ~ (paraphrase) The great Romanian patriot Cornelieu Codreanu
"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think." ~ Adolf Hitler
"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil." ~ (Albert Einstein, 1949)
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