May 30, 2005

Quotes:

Back from the Czech Republic...

    By Jack Grant

...and while I write up an essay on the French "Non!" to the EU Constitution and upload photos, here's some quotes for you:

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.    -George Bernard Shaw

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
   -Christopher Isherwood

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the misrable. They find not oly sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated ego's; He will set them above their betters.
   -H. L. Mencken

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to betaken seriously
   -Hubert H. Humphrey


And a key one to remember

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)

Posted by Jack Grant at 15:47 on 30 May 2005
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