Author: James Wesley Rawles

“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” – William Goldman, in The Princess Bride (1973) and the film The Princess Bride (1987)

“Knowledge isn’t restrained by the limits of Malthus. Information doesn’t need topsoil to grow in, only freedom. Given eager minds and experimentation, it feeds itself like a chain react.” – David Brin, Earth

“It’s said that ‘power corrupts’, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.” – David Brin, The Postman

“In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur, in a lecture at the University of Lille (7 December 1854)

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.” – Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden (1870)

“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” ~ John Locke

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” – James Madison

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” – James Madison

“When you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are like mice trying to ‘negotiate’ with owls. You regard their ways as ‘wrong.’ They regard you as dinner.” – Terry Goodkind

“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.” – John Philpot Curran, in a speech in Dublin, Ireland on July 10, 1790