"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."

-- Aristotle

   "In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."

--Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Sec. of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.

    "Life is too short not to love what you are doing."

--Gene Wilder

   "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."

-- Bertrand Russell

   "He who has a strong enough why to live for, can bear almost any how."

--Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900) German philosopher

   "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."

--Western Union internal memo, 1876.

   "It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

--Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
German philosopher

   "No child left behind."

-- Bush Administration Education Program

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   "One soul shall not be lost."

-- Lucifer (Moses 4:1)

   "If a man hasn't discovered something to die for, he isn't fit to live."

--Martin Luther King Jr.

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   "If a man hasn't discovered something to die for, he is missing out on life."

-- Sterling D. Allan

    "We are the people we have been waiting for."

-- Hopi prophecy

    "The point that all Americans must understand is that Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from the bench, not for committing any crime, not for participating in unethical conduct, and not even for posting the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Judicial Building. He was removed from office for acknowledging God! "

-- Chuck Baldwin (attended the trial)

ERRATA: The following quote was fabricated in 1950's

    "We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

-- James Madison, 4th U.S. President
Called, "Father of our Constitution"

    "Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrongdoing which will be imposed on them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

-- Frederick Douglas, 1857

    "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."

--Voltaire

     "Crisis is the rallying cry of a tyrant. "

-- James Madison (1751-1836)
US President, 1809-17

     "In our study of Einstein and physics it may just be possible to affect the past and future from the present. "

-- Susan Carter

     "Once you recognize what is happening, you have a moral obligation to become involved."

-- Dr. Stanley Monteith

     "True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all."

--Lord Mansfield

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-- Looking for origin of quote

     "There is tranquility in ignorance, but servitude is its partner."

-- LB Bork, Pacinlaw.org

     "No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines greatness."

--Charles Kendall Adams

     "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

--Charles Kingsley, English clergyman

     "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."

-- Thomas Paine

     "Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado, or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences, whether it is in matters social, political, or other. It consists in deeds, not in words."

-- Mahatma Ghandi

     "I had many to assist me at the Mountain Meadows. I believe that most of those who were connected with the Massacre, and took part in the lamentable transaction that has blackened the character of all who were aiders or abettors in the same, were acting under the impression that they were performing a religious duty. I know all were acting under the orders and by the command of their Church leaders; and I firmly believe that the most of those who took part in the proceedings, considered it a religious duty to unquestioningly obey the orders which they had received. That they acted from a sense of duty to the Mormon Church."

-- John D. Lee
(...Life and Confessions of John D. Lee..., p. 213)

     "God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me, I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."

-- George W. Bush
Speaking to Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas
at the last peace summit (ref)

(And God told Bin Laden to attack the U.S.  What gives?)

    "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

--Helen Keller

    "There is no key to happiness -- the door is always open."

-- Church sign in North Platte, Nebraska USA

    "LOTTERY: That's where 5 million stupid people make 1 stupid person look smart."

-- Johnny Hart,
B.C. Cartoon, June 12, 2003

    "I think we ought to make 'America the Beautiful' the national anthem.  It's not about war, there's no bombs bursting in air, no rocket's red glare.  It's about the land, amber waves of grain.  That sounds good to me.  Plus, it's a hell of a lot easier to sing."

-- Willie Nelson
in Men's Journal

    "But the most enjoyable sight for me to see is a congregation made of fudge ripple, that vanilla and chocolate blended together."

-- Gladys Knight
On 25th anniversary of LDS blacks receiving priesthood.
Special evening of music in LDS Conference center.

    "We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection."

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

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

--Abraham Lincoln

    " 'What I hope comes of it, is that the President of the Church will make a definite decision of who the Lamanites are,' said Steven Clark, president of the Salamander Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the exhibition of Mormon art and culture."

(The above is the closing statement of BYU NewsNet article: BYU professor refutes Book of Mormon DNA claims)

Note: Please do not think this is quoting in sympathy with its sentiment. This is the epitome of how "just follow the prophet" mentality fosters spiritual laziness.

    "I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges -- ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor."

-- Nikola Tesla
Brooklyn Eagle; July 10, 1932

    "The church . . . is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well . . ."

-- Jeffery R. Holland
(Come Unto Me, p. 189), LDS Quorum of the Twelve.

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    "Yea, and when you get better, you leave; either that or you die."