Quotations

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."

-Bertrand Russell: Freedom, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, Harcourt Brace, 1940.
 
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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” ​

-Alexander Fraser Tytler
 
Session 5 said:
Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”​

― Theodore Roosevelt
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Just about brings tears to my eye ms everytime I read this. Definitely gives me the tingles. Bully!!! Love me some Theodore R!
 
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"A happy *art never comes from a miserable ass" - Martin Luther

"A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by it's own *arts" - Frank Skinner
 
“You got to believe in yourself or no one believe in you, imagination like a bird on a wing, flying free for you to use”
Bob Daisley
 
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