Sunday, August 19, 2007

GREAT QUOTES / 32

Here is the latest installment of Great Quotes..............Interesting and thought provoking statements made by the famous and almost famous, and some by people you've never heard of. It just goes to prove that truth lies in the words and not who says them...........Pass these around ..............use them as you will....................PEACE......................Scott


If we always do what we've always done, we'll always get what we've
always got -- Toni Worst


The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an
education -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest M. Hemingway


The most necessary work of anyone who wishes to be free themselves is to
protect the freedom of everyone around them. - Sam Smith


Provocative thinking and the American university seem never to have got
on well together -- V. L. Parrington


The secret of education is respecting the pupil -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every dogma has its day - Abraham Rotstein


Let me tell you something. I’ve seen fascism up close and personal…. Not if, but when, it comes to America, fascism will be wrapped in the American flag carrying a cross.”--Sinclair Lewis


Only two things are infinite, the universe & human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former. - - Albert Einstein


A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three
times before lying down - Robert Benchley


Some rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen. -
from a song about Pretty Boy Floyd by Woody Guthrie.


Unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of
monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges, you will in the end find
that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered
away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into
the hands of these corporations." --Andrew Jackson


A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient
capital to form a corporation -- Howard Scott


Implicit in the term `national defense' is the notion of defending those
values and ideals which set this nation apart -- Justice Potter Stewart,
1967


The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from
within what you are trying to defend from without. -- Dwight Eisenhower


Criticism is prejudice made plausible - Mark Twain


Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing. - Duke Ellington.

No comments: