| Quotes for Today's World |
| "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -Louis D. Brandeis "In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." -Martin Niem�ller "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." -James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin |
| "Tonight, instead of discussing the existence or non- existence of God, they have decided to fight for it." [Monty Python] |
| "Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." Nietzsche "The Dawn" (1881) |
| a collection of quotes for you to think about as you decide what paths you should take in today's world... |
| "Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." Salvador Dali |
| "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -Bertrand Russell |
| General William Tecumseh Sherman: "War is hell" |
| March 24, 2003 |