Some words of Wisdom

“Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.” –Jefferson

"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." –Ursula K. LeGuin

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." -FDR

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." –Marcus Aurelius

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." Maxim Gorky

"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times." –Schiller

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." –Robert Frost

"Not all who wander are lost." –JRR Tolkein

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." –Robert Kennedy

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." –Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." –Oscar Wilde
 

Political Musings

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." –P.J. O’Rourke

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.” -P.J. O'Rourke

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." –JFK

"High politics is only common sense applied to great things." –Napoleon

"The price of greatness is responsibility." –Winston Churchill

"A lie told often enough becomes truth." –Lenin

"Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron." –Stalin

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." –George McGovern

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America." –Bill Clinton

Education

"The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches increases ever with the aquisition of it." -Sterne

"I place good books among the absolutely essential possessions." –Voltaire

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." –Johann Wolfgang von Göthe

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." –Johann Wolfgang von Göthe

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." –B.F. Skinner

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." –Napoleon

"History is the witness of the times, the light of truth." –Cicero

"A room without books is a body without a soul." –Cicero

Religion

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." –Jonathan Swift

"The mind of a fundamentalist is like the pupil of an eye, the more light you shed upon it, the more it contracts" –Anonymous

"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic." –Charles Darwin

"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter." –Napoleon