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Food For Thought

Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. --John Muir

Our enemies will adequately deflate our accomplishments. We need not serve them as eager volunteers. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
--Ronald Reagan

"I've never said all tax cuts pay for themselves. I never even said Reagan's tax cuts would pay for themselves."
--Arthur Laffer

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious."
--Albert Einstein

When I say that the conservative lacks principles, I do not mean to suggest that he lacks moral conviction. The typical conservative is indeed usually a man of very strong moral convictions. What I mean is that he has no political principles which enable him to work with people whose moral values differ from his own for a political order in which both can obey their convictions.
--F. A. Hayek, Why I Am Not a Conservative

I am not one who believes you can ever fully divorce politics from policy in a democracy. It would be like trying to do physics without math.
--Rahm Emanuel

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense,"
--- Carl Sagan

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
--Benjamin Franklin

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war,"
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick. Commentary, 1979

Lord, take me where You want me to go; Let me meet who You want me to meet; Tell me what You want me to say, and Keep me out of Your way.
-- Father Mychal Judge, former chaplain to the New York City Fire Department, killed on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center disaster

There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
-- Walt Whitman

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
-- Mahatma Gandhi.

People cease to believe their own utterances before others doubt them.
-- Fouad Ajami

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismark

The people who benefit from the symbols... need not necessarily honor them, at least not fully; they need only honor them more than their rivals are seen to do. Most ideologies and belief systems are not savored for what they are; they are more appreciated for what they do, for their utility in taking on others who manipulate other symbols..
-- Fouad Ajami

Make no mistake, there's a jury that's out. In half the world, the verdict is not yet in. The commitment to accept the Western idea of democracy has