"Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged."

-- Taisha Abelar

    "You know, the press is free for those who own one."

-- Lowell Bergman
Played by Al Pacino in The Insider

    "One last agreement?!!
    "Every treaty you made with this people upon coming upon this land you promised was to be the last; and each time you invaded us again. Then you ask us to have confidence in your promises.
    "When Jesus Christ came upon the earth you killed him -- the Son of your own God. And only after he was dead did you worship him, and started killing those who would not. Who could trust the word of such people?"

-- Tecumseh (1768-1813)
The Last Warrior (1995)

    "Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

    "Free energy will promulgate a forward leap in human progress akin to the discovery of fire. It will bring the dawn of an entirely new civilization -- one based on freedom and abundance."

-- Sterling D. Allan

    "When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in a muddled, incomplete, and confusing form. To the discoverer himself, it will be only half understood; to everyone else, it will be a mystery. For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope."

-- Freeman Dyson

    "Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our civilization."

-- Gandhi

    "He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt him and kill him first."

-- Ariel Sharon
after a suicide bomb killed 15 people near Tel Aviv

    "The pentagon uses, on average, about 666 rolls of toilet paper every day."

-- Scott Paper > Kids > Trivia Facts

    "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth.  For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst; and to provide for it."

-- Patrick Henry

    "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will."

-- George Bernard Shaw

    "Britain's Susie Stephens, 36, a world authority on pedestrian safety, who was speaking at a biking/walking conference, was accidentally run over and killed in St. Louis by a tour bus as she crossed the street near her hotel."

-- Chuck Shepherd
News of the Weird

    "Any man in this church who abuses his wife, who demeans her, who insults her, who exercises unrighteous dominion over her is unworthy to hold the priesthood."

-- Gordon B. Hinckley
LDS President

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

-- Benjamin Franklin

    "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

-- Abraham Lincoln

(I'm hanging this one on the wall in front of me.)

    "About this time was organized his [Joseph Smith's] private council of fifty -- the embryo kingdom of God upon the earth -- an organization distinct from the Church, a nucleus of popular government which will exist for all people, 'when the heathen are given for an inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as a possession' to Him whose right it is to reign; a government formed of representatives from every nation, principality or tribe upon the earth; a government of God for the people and by the people, in which man will be taught to know his origin and to govern himself."

-- Journal of Benjamin F. Johnson
Church Historians Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Page 94

     "Your worst enemy is your best friend, to purify your character from evil, hatred."

-- Maliq Abu Hamzaladin Abdrahman

     "I hope we're not considered weird.  We're not weird people.  Of course we're not.  ...I think we have nothing to be ashamed of.  We have so much to be proud of."

-- Gordon B. Hinckley
Salt Lake Tribune interview Feb. 7, 2002

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    "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people..."

-- 1 Peter 2:9

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    "...That he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act."

-- Isaiah 28:21

     "Why do you suffer this man to revile against us? For behold he doth condemn all the people, even unto destruction; yea, and also that these our great cities shall be taken from us, the we shall have no place in them. We know that this is impossible, for behold, we are powerful, and our cities great, therefore our enemies can have no power over us."

-- Helaman 8:5,6; keep reading

    "The problem was not the lack of government involvement with Enron, but rather the close relationship between Enron and government."

-- Congressman Ron Paul