What is your favorite quote? And why?

[BienvenuJDC]

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan

A wonderful theme of quotes...

[cafolini]

They sure fit together. Don't they? Thanks JDC.

[cafolini]

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. ~ Winston Churchill

[MANICHAEAN]

As God once said - and I think rightly........

Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery.

[cafolini]

A lie gets halfway around the world before one truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~ Winston Churchill

[Rognvald]

"Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis". - T. S. Eliot from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Here's the verse:

And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! 75
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep … tired … or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? 80
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 85
And in short, I was afraid.

I love the line in question - in or out of context. For me it is evocative of will-power. As the saying goes, "If you will it to happen, it will happen!"

[cafolini]

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[cafolini]

If God and nature were one, Spinoza would be correct, and science could settle the issues. We didn't need to kill Him 2011 years ago.

"We have killed Him. What are we going to do now?" F. Nietzsche.

[Oxyster]

age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young. -Homer : The iliad.

[cafolini]

I am one of the gratest cowards I have known. So now, if necessary, I would give my life for freedom because I grasp the most important kind of cowardice. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Change does not [necessarily] roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. ~ Martin Luther King

[KCurtis]

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Change does not [necessarily] roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. ~ Martin Luther King

Thankyou for remembering, Cafolini

[cafolini]

Thankyou for remembering, Cafolini

This guru of justice and freedom will never be forgotten. Thanks.

[tonywalt]

I became insane with long intervals of terrible sanity - Edgar Allan Poe

[cafolini]

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche