| "Behind in front the direction does not matter we will fight him wherever he
is..." General Robert E. Lee, July 1, 1863
When asked once, "How much money is enough money?" He replied, "Just a
little bit more." - John D. Rockefeller.
"Let us prey." -- John D. Rockefeller
"The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than
to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over."
- Adolph Hitler
"I am not fit for this office and should have never been here." Warren
Harding often ranked as the worst US President
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever." -Gandi
"Choose your ground and make your enemy attack you." Napolean
"I have never yet left the enemy in command of the battlefield! Retreat is
no longer an option." General Robert E. Lee, July 2, 1863
"All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Then Long Hair (Custer)
came...they say we massacred him, but he would have done the same thing to
us had we not defended ourselves and fought to the last. Crazy Horse 1877
after the Battle of Little Bighorn
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
--Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July
4, 1776
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the
President or any other public office save exactly to the degree in which he
himself stands by the country." -Theodore Roosevelt
"All that is needed for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere . . . Whatever affects
one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government
cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." Abe Lincoln
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great."
-Mark Twain
"The wise person questions himself. The fool questions others."
-Henri Arnold
"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right"
Henry Ford
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." - Voltaire
"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." -
Thomas Edison
"We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for
loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world
who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a
little love" Mother Teresa
"I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me
in opinion."
Thomas Jefferson
Thought is our vehicle in life. -Unknown
"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to
drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the
people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution
inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it"
- Albert Einstein
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long
as I'm the dictator"
- George W. Bush
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth"
- Adolph Hitler
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually
come to believe it."
- Goebbels
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government
owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To
destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between
corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship
of the day."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who
count the votes do."
- Joseph Stalin
"Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom
nor security."
- Benjamin Franklin
“The citizen who sees his society’s democratic clothes being worn out and
does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.”
"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of
men."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it."
- Will Durant
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is
violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"We must remember that one determined person can make a significant
difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the
course of history."- Sonia Johnson
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then
you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"The first duty of society is justice."- Alexander Hamilton
"All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the
protection of the laws." - Voltaire, Essay on Manners, 1756
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our
freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has
struck before you crush him. Franklin D. Roosevelt
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask
what you can do for your country.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die
tomorrow. Mahatma Gandhi
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or
give me death. Patrick Henry
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running
from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities
destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers
and wives. I hate war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I never give them hell.
I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. Harry S. Truman
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give
you a man who will make history. Give me a man
with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
- J.C. Penney
Does history record any case in which the majority
was right? - Robert A. Heinlein
"Come on, you sons of bitches-do you want to live forever?"
- Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Daly, USMC, near Lucy-`le-Bocage
as he led the 5th Marines' attack into Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times
out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a
coward goes to hide. - Mickey Mantle
“Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.” “It's hard to beat a
person who never gives up.”
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the
greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play
together, the club won't be worth a dime.” Babe Ruth
"All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"It is good that war is so terrible, else we should become accustomed to
it." - Robert E. Lee
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" General George S. Patton
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The
hard part is doing it." Norman Schwarzkopf
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next
week. A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. No poor bastard ever won a
war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for
their country." George Patton
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they
lack.
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it
on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".
- Newt Gingrich
USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four
people make up 75 percent of the population.
- David Letterman
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy
soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty:
Martin Luther King, Jr
"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
--John F. Kennedy
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits:
freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
--Mark Twain
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized
anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
--Abraham Lincoln
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen
its brutality, its stupidity. War settles nothing." Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let us remember that if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty,
we encourage it. -Samuel Adams
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was
landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms - never - never -
never! You cannot conquer America. -William Pitt
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have
to catch it yourself." - Ben Franklin
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a
troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be
left to irresponsible action." - George Washington
“THE GREATEST MISTAKE A PERSON CAN MAKE
IS TO BE AFRAID OF MAKING ONE.”
ELBERT HUBBARD--AUTHOR
“TO WIN, YOU MUST TREAT A PRESSURE SITUATION
AS AN OPPORTUNITY
TO SUCCEED
NOT AS AN OPPORTUNITY
TO FAIL.”
GARDNER DICKINSON
PRO GOLFER
“TO BE A CHAMPION
YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
WHEN NO ONE ELSE WILL." SUGAR RAY ROBINSON WORLD CHAMPION BOXER
“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and
concentrate more on the preservation of the future.” The last words printed
carefully in Dian Fossey's journal on the final page.
"No, I won't let them turn this mountain into a goddamn zoo". Dian Fossey in
the movie "Gorillas in the Mist". In the year 1990 more than 10,000 tourists
visited the Virungas whilst the Gorilla population is ca. 350. In 2005 eight
gorillas died of measles which were transmitted by tourists.
The following is taken from one of Carnegie's memos to himself:
“ Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for
lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and
I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond
the power of those millionaires to reach. It is the mind that makes the body
rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money
and nothing else. Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably
higher than itself. Exalted beyond this, as it sometimes is, it remains
Caliban still and still plays the beast. My aspirations take a higher
flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of
the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the
lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the
noblest possible use of wealth."
Robert E. Lee
Upon hearing of Jackson's death, Robert E. Lee mourned the loss of both a
friend and a trusted commander. The night Lee learned of Jackson's death, he
told his cook, "William, I have lost my right arm" (deliberately in contrast
to Jackson's left arm) and "I'm bleeding at the heart."
Stonewall Jackson
"Who could not conquer with such troops as these?
My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!"
Stonewall Jackson's last words
"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees . ."
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