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Words from 

     Famous People 

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Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the people on the Earth.   Man did not weave the web of life.   He is merely a strand in it.   Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

____________________ Chief Seattle

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

____________________ William Shakespeare

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 Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.   That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.   That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

____________________ American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it.   Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.   Begin it now.

____________________ Goethe

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.   Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.   I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

____________________ Emma Lazarus ---  From her Poem  "The New Colossus"  Engraved on the base of the Statue of liberty, Ellis Island, New York Harbor, USA.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes...   A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principle upon which our government was founded.

____________________ Abraham Lincoln -- 1840

You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

____________________ Abraham Lincoln

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

____________________ Abraham Lincoln

They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

____________________ Benjamin Franklin

The worst form of inequality is to make unequal things equal.

____________________ Aristotle

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.   It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.   And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry.   Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.   How do I know?    For this is what I have done.   And I am Caesar.

 ____________________   Some sources attribute this quotation to William Shakespeare.  Others claim that Julius Caesar himself is the source.  Still others claim it is a hoax.  Whatever the source, whether historic or unknown, the content of it seems relevant to present political structures, so it remains on this website.   Ask yourself, "How many present-day political and religious leaders are following that principle, but are conning the public rather than informing them."   Clarification regarding the source of this quotation came from several sources including Richard Aberdeen.  http://aberdeenfoundation.org

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.           Lord Acton  ...

____________________  Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887:  "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.   Great men are almost always bad men."

Everything that can be invented has been invented.           Lord Acton  ...

____________________  Charles M. Durel,  Commissioner,    U.S. Patent Office,  1889

All things are full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

____________________   Plotinus 205-270, Roman philosopher   
              (Law of Correspondence)   <http://www.joy101.org/02-universal-laws.html#Correspondence>

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie -- the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth.   Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

____________________   Mark Twain    Form his essay: "On the Decay of the Art of Lying"

(Editors note:  A lie of commission is when you intentionally say something that is NOT TRUE with the intention of deceiving someone.   A lie of omission is when you intentionally withhold vital information with the intention of deceiving someone.)

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