Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Quotes

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”—Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”—Malcolm X

“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents… There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.”—Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813

“Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.”—William Greider

“Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.”—The Duke of Wellington, surveying the battlefield carnage after Waterloo