User:Logicbranch/information/Quotes

''Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfold fear.'' It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. – Thomas Jefferson –

''Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.'' — Dwight D. Eisenhower —

''...habeas corpus and trial by jury... are the supreme protection invented by the English people for ordinary individuals against the state. The power of the Executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist.'' — Winston Churchill —

It speaks volumes in our society that we are more comfortable seeing a picture of two men holding guns than two men holding hands. — Ash Beckham —

While it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. — John Stuart Mill —