Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.

Abraham Lincoln

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Frederick Wilcox

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

John Bolton

The minstrel fell but the foeman's chaincould not break his proud soul under.The harp he loved ne'er spoke again,for he tore its chords asunder,And said, No chains shall sully thee,thou soul of love and brav'ry!Thy songs were made for the pure and free;they shall never sound in slav'ry.

Thomas Moore, The Minstrel Boy

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

Gregory Benford

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Gertrude Stein

Desire is the essence of a man.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Dale Carnegie

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Ray Kurzweil

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Thomas Fuller

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

George Herbert