Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 “I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”—Cyrus Ching, American labor union mediator, 1876-1967
Posted on July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 “Laws are like spiders’ webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.”—Solon, Athenian lawmaker, c.630-c.560 BC
Posted on July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900
Posted on July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 “In the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 427-347 BC
Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 “What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”—Benjamin Disraeli, UK Prime Minister, 1804-1881
Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 “Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”—Henry Brooks Adams, American historian, 1838-1918
Posted on June 6, 2021June 5, 2021 “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”—John Morley, British statesman, 1838-1923
Posted on May 31, 2021 “The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.”—Charles Eliot Norton, American author, 1827-1908
Posted on May 19, 2021May 19, 2021 “It is easier to make war than peace.”—Georges Clemenceau, French Prime Minister, 1841-1929
Posted on May 16, 2021May 16, 2021 “The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it.”—George Orwell, English novelist, 1903-1950
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