It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Douglas Adams
Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
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Paul Krugman
Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.
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Oliver Hassencamp
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
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John Brunner
A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.
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William Arnot
More Quotes By T. S. Eliot
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end...
