"The budget should be balanced; the Treasury should be refilled; the public debt should be reduced; the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled. Assistance to foreign land should be curtailed lest we become bankrupt. The mob should be forced to work and not depend upon government for subsistence." – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 – 43 BC
"Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains." – Alexis DeTocqueville, Democracy in America
"We have thus given up much of the ground that our fathers had won; for under the banner of justice and in the name of the law we permit things to be done that could only be imposed on them by violence." – Alexis DeTocqueville, Democracy in America
“There’s no such thing as a foolproof system, because fools are too ingenious.” – Wernher von Braun
“What is more important is that I don’t know how I have survived. I don’t know a word which could express it better but this was more than a narrow escape… I had a will to live and God had mercy on me.” – Doctor Stephen Kaddu Ssesanga, survivor of the December´s 2007 Ebola outbreak in Uganda
“Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel’s as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.” – Robert Burns
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.” – Ecclesiastes 9-10
“Cowardice asks, Is it safe? Expediency asks, Is it politic? Vanity asks, Is it popular? But conscience asks, Is it right?” – William Morley Punshon
“I don´t mind being called tough, because in this racket it´s the tough guys who lead the survivors” – General Curtis LeMay
[Two men are fencing in a duel to the death] Inigo Montoya: You are wonderful! Man in Black: Thank you; I’ve worked hard to become so. Inigo Montoya: I admit it, you are better than I am. Man in Black: Then why are you smiling? Inigo Montoya: Because I know something you don’t know. Man in Black: And what is that? Inigo Montoya: I… am not left-handed! [Moves his sword to his right hand and gains an advantage] Man in Black: You are amazing! Inigo Montoya: I ought to be, after 20 years. Man in Black: Oh, there’s something I …
“Of every One-Hundred men, Ten shouldn’t even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters… We are lucky to have them…They make the battle, Ah, but the One, One of them is a Warrior… and He will bring the others back.” – Heraclitus (circa 500 BC)
“Law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.” – Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewig
“One meets one’s destiny often in the road one takes to avoid it.” – French Proverb