“I would like to call upon America to be more careful with its trust and prevent those who because of short-sightedness and still others out of self-interest, from falsely using the struggle for peace and for social justice to lead you down a false road. Because they are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat. I call upon you: ordinary working men of America, do not let yourselves become weak.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn (June 30, 1975)
“The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience,
knowledge without character, commerce without morality,
science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.”
— Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
“As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.”
— Jeffrey R. Snyder – A Nation of Cowards
“My grandmother wanted me to have an education,
so she kept me out of school.”
— Margaret Mead – Cultural anthropologist and author
“Reaching consensus in a group is often
confused with finding the right answer.”
— Norman Mailer
“The brave man inattentive to his duty,
is worth little more to his country than
the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.”
— Andrew Jackson
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can make for us or spare us.”
— Marcel Proust
“The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
“We have men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”
–Omar Bradley – Armistice Day speech 1948
A compilation of quotes from Liberty Tree of Canada
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