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10 January 2007 - 13:30 UTC

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A cynical thought on speech and ideas

by Jack Grant

We use ideas merely to justify our evil, and speech merely to conceal our ideas.
   -Voltaire (1694 - 1778)


posted by Jack Grant on 2007.01.10 @ 13:30 UTC


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Words to remember

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.    -Thomas Jefferson

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
   -Theodore Roosevelt

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
   -Epictetus

I have too much compassion to be a conservative and too much sense to be a liberal.
   -Stephen Millich

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
   -James Madison
    4th US president (1751 - 1836)

...being tough doesn’t require being stupid. It’s totally optional.
   -Scott Adams
   cartoonist and satirist

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
   -H. H. Williams

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
   -Peter da Silva

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