The Last Word

Friday, July 22, 2005

To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery is flatly to contradict the revealed word of God.
—William Blackstone

I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.
—C. S. Lewis

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism....The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
—Albert Einstein

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.
—Melvin Laird

When you are in a minority, talk; when you are in a majority, vote.
—Roger Sherman

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
—Baron de Montesquieu

Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
—Matthew 22:21

Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.
—Mohandas Gandhi

It is far better to fight on your feet than on your knees, but you can still fight on your knees.
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.
—Cardinal Richelieu

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age -- unless you're an American, of course.
—John Osborne
"Look Back in Anger"

Man is condemned to be free.
—Jean-Paul Sartre

No hero is mortal till he dies.
—W. H. Auden

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
—Thomas Carlyle

To die for an idea: it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler would it be if men died for ideas that were true.
—H. L. Mencken

Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance.
—William Blake

The press must be free; it has always been so and much evil has been corrected by it. If Government finds itself annoyed by it, let it examine its own conduct and it will find the cause.
—Lord Chancellor Thomas Erskine

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
—Isaiah Berlin

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will....We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of our is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Castles in the air--they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.
—Henrik Ibsen

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

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
—Sinclair Lewis

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures successs to the weak and esteem to all.
—George Washington

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