It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Jesse Ventura

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Robert Browning

In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly thought that the Bosnian cause was worth fighting for and worth defending, but I could not take myself seriously enough to imagine that my own demise would have forwarded the cause. (I also discovered that a famous jaunty Churchillism had its limits: the old war-lover wrote in one of his more youthful reminiscences that there is nothing so exhilarating as being shot at without result. In my case, the experience of a whirring, whizzing horror just missing my ear was indeed briefly exciting, but on reflection made me want above all to get to the airport. Catching the plane out with a whole skin is the best part .) Or suppose I had been hit by that mortar that burst with an awful shriek so near to me, and turned into a Catherine wheel of body-parts and (even worse) body-ingredients? Once again, I was moved above all not by the thought that my death would 'count,' but that it would not count in the least.

Christopher Hitchens

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Christian Lous Lange

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ L

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Salvador Dali

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

William James

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

Thomas Kempis

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Miguel de Unamuno