GREAT QUOTES / 25

Here is the latest in "Great Quotes". Please spread them around "liberally"..............I hope that you have found these to be of some value.................PEACE...........Scott


You are joining us on September 12th,2006, which as you know, is the fifth
anniversary of the misappropriation of the events of September 11th. --
Jon Stewart


"Failure is the path of least persistence." - Submitted by Bob Schmetzer, of IBEW local Union 712


“These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt, first inaugural address


Calling Bush the devil is offending the devil. The devil is evil, but
intelligent. - Economist Rafael Correa, progressive candidate for
president of Ecuador


Don't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will
avoid you - Winston Churchill


How much time do we have? - New Jersey U.S. Senate candidate Tom Kean,
Jr. (R), when asked to cite examples of mistakes made by President Bush


The issue of government is not to be concerned about who is sleeping
with who in the bedroom. The issue of government is to make sure that
there is enough food to feed everybody in the kitchen. - Al Sharpton


All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky. . .

- WH Auden, 1939


Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is
the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate
killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is
terrorism. That is why a "war on terrorism" is a contradiction in terms.
- Howard Zinn


"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
— Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress


I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard
existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land
of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. -
Albert Einstein, who would accumulate nearly 100,000 pages of FBI files
before he died.


"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or self-confidence." – Robert Frost