Friday, November 14, 2008

Thoughts that makes you go uuummhhhh?

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
Alexis de Tocqueville


I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."
Thomas Jefferson


He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
Aesop


Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
Plato




"What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness."
Friedrich Nietzsche


"What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself."
Friedrich Nietzsche


"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
George Washington


"There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live."
John Adams


"A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality."
John F. Kennedy


"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."
Confucius


"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King Jr.

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