How many men will it take?
There are tasks that cannot be done by more than ten men, or less than one hundred.
Archive of posts filed under the Quotes category.
Freedom of Speech
“I have always been among those who believe that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.” –Woodrow Wilson
Excuse me?
“We have to get away from the ethos that knowledge is good, knowledge should be publicly available, that information will liberate us,” said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan.
Leave me alone
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. –William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
PATRIOT Act Passage
“They played all kinds of games, kept the House in session all night, and it was a very complicated bill. Maybe a handful of staffers actually read it, but the bill definitely was not available to members before the vote.” –Rep. Ron Paul, TX, on how few Congresscritters saw the USA-PATRIOT Bill before voting overwhelmingly …
Can you do all this?
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook …
Essential Liberty
“They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin, 1759.
Time of War
Inter arma silent leges. It means, “In time of war the laws are silent,”
Electronic Frontier
If the Internet is an electronic frontier, spammers are cattle rustlers on the electronic frontier.
Herbert Hoover on Budgeting
“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” – Herbert Hoover
