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
Posted on April 28, 2021April 28, 2021 “The basis of a democratic state is liberty.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher & polymath, 384-322 BC
Posted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 “Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”—William Allen White, American newspaper editor, 1868-1944
Posted on April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 “Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made.”—Otto von Bismarck (attr.), German statesman, 1815-1898
Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 “It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.”—John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist, 1908-2006
Posted on September 23, 2016August 15, 2021 “A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.”—Lillian Hellman, American playwright, 1905-1984
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