food for thought
Joseph Conrad
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
We live as we dream; alone.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
George Washington
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
H.L. Mencken
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out...without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
Adam Smith
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
George Orwell
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.