Sunday, April 13, 2008

GREAT QUOTES / 37

The latest installment of "Great Quotes" gleaned from the nooks and crannies of the internet.............enjoy!!!!!!!!!..........use them as you will...............PEACE.............Scott


We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When 
we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it
with love and respect. - Aldo Leopold



If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if
what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains
undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if
justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion.
Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above
everything. -- Confucius

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between 
the disastrous and the unpalatable - John Kenneth Galbraith


If you can paint a real good picture of a cow, you don't need to write 
the word cow under it -- Senator Sam Ervin


"I love you America, but isn't it time to start seeing other people?"- Bumper Sticker



"It is not only [the juror's] right, but his duty, to find the verdict

according to his own understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in
direct opposition to the direction of the court." -- John Adams, 1771



A power so great, it can only be used for good or evil.

-- Firesign Theatre



I consider the trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man

by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
- Thomas Jefferson.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad 
judgment - Will Rogers


JURY: A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their 
health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. - HL
Mencken


History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain


To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be forever a 
child -- Cicero

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