Quotables
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse…. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice—is often the means of their regeneration.
~John Stuart Mill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
~Winston Churchill
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
~Ronald Reagan
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
~Abraham Lincoln
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
~Thomas Mann
There may be moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate.
~Ibn Warraq
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
~Winston Churchill
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
~Gaul Jean-Francois Revel
Of course we could make things more difficult, Lisa, but then the stupider students would be in here complaining, furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation.
~Principal Skinner
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
~Thomas Jefferson
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw
Man isn’t a noble savage, he’s an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved — that about sums it up.
~Stanley Kubrick
