QUOTES

THOMAS JEFFERSON: " Banks are more dangerous than standing armies." ( A "standing army" is defined as "a permanent army of paid soldiers"; a type of army, not really made of citizens with the people's causes and protection as its purpose. They are more along the lines of Hitler's SS - an army with the rulers' interests in mind, meant to keep the powers protected against the people.)

MUHAMMED ALI: (Ali delivered this at his Harvard graduation. Supposedly its the shortest quote in the English language. Its definitely short and sweet, but THINK about it.) "Me, we."
ALSO FROM ALI: "Its hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am." BUT HE ALSO SAID: "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

MAYA ANGELOU: "We really are 15 countries, and its remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the REAL America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain that they are the real American."

THOMAS JEFFERSON: "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
"Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%."
"God forbid we should ever be 20 years without a rebellion."
"I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office."
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands as clean as they are empty."
"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wastion the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." (Ever notice that tho people seem to be living longer, they feel worse during that long lifetime?)
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock."
"Information is the currency of democracy." (And people who choose to remain ignorant will be ruled by those who know. Awareness and participation are the price of democracy.)
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. The truth can stand up for itself."
"It is in our lives, not in our words, that our religion must be read."
"Never trouble another for what you can do yourself."
"No government should ever be without censors, and where the press is FREE, no one ever will." (Unfortunately, the media cannot be trusted to tell the whole truth and nothing but truth today - everyone has an agenda to push.)
"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends."
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." (Yet so many today think they have to show out and be bad. Loudness has nothing to do with being right.)
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he MUST more approve of the homage of reason than that blindfold of fear." (At another time he repeated this statement, but he changed the word "fear" to "faith")
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it (my life) has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which regulated it cannot be a bad one."
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
"The beauty of the 2nd amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are WILLING to work and give to those who would NOT." (This has nothing to do with helping those who are truly in need- only the lazy who look for a free ride, as if life and everyone else owes them something for existing.)
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurous to others." (And it has no right to protect me from myself, nor to make laws based on opinions, not facts.)
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilence."
(The exact meaning of the 2nd amendment has been debated. Falsely. Its a matter of public record EXACTLY what the founding fathers meant:) "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." (And remember, Jefferson is the author of the bulk of the Constitution.)
"The Tree of Liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our 1st objective."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that (strength) of others,without fearing it."

UNKNOWN: "Truth is always the strongest argument."

THOMAS JEFFERSON: (yes again. What can I say - I'm a big fan. And this should've been included previously.)
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are the rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness...Whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to abolish it, and to institute a new government." (Note the right is for the PURSUIT of happiness - the right to do whatever you need to do to try to achieve happiness, as long as it doesn't take away from anyone else. He does not say we have the right to guaranteed happiness - just the pursuit of it. That's a huge difference that some people just do not seem to understand.)

(I DIDN'T NOTE THE SOURCES OF THESE - I'M SURE A SEARCH WOULD PROVIDE THIS INFO IF NEEDED);
Suspicion haunts the guilty mind.

He jests at scars who never felt a wound.

Beware of jealousy. It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

When pride begins, love ceases.

A habit of sneering marks the egotist, or the fool, or the knave, or all three.

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ill that THEY feel to others.

The fawning, sneaking, and flattering hypocrite, that will do, or be, anything for his own advantage.

Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what we least dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them.

One believes easily that which one hopes for earnestly.