Give me quotes or give me death!

[RoyalOrleans]

Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

 

- Ron Paul

[Times]

"Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?" ~Thomas Szasz

[wez]

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~ John Quincy Adams

[wez]

I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe. But at least I'm enjoying the ride ~ Jerry Garcia

[wez]

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, peaceful man ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

[wez]

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 

[wez]

Why are you so upset that Bush won the election? ~ wez's dad, November 2000

 

Because I think there's still a lot of hard feelings over what his dad did in the Middle East 10 years ago and I have a bad feeling that something really bad is going to happen. ~ wez, November 2000

 

*Silence* ~ wez's dad, November 2000

 

What the hell is the matter with people in this country? ~ wez, September 11, 2001

 

*Silence* ~ wez's dad, September 11, 2001

[wez]

Faith is believing what you know ain't so ~ Mark Twain

[wez]

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ~ Albert Einstein

[wez]

I agree with Albert Einstein.. and BCAR

[Cpvr]

Every blank page is an invitation to build a world no one has seen before.

Your imagination doesn’t run out—it just waits for you to catch up.

 

Sometimes, the cracks in your foundation are where the light finally gets in.

You don’t have to move mountains to grow; sometimes shifting a pebble is enough.

 

True love isn’t found—it’s built, layer by layer, like a home you never stop crafting.

A heart that listens is louder than a thousand voices trying to be heard.

 

Life is a mosaic of tiny decisions—each one a stroke in your masterpiece.

The moments between the big milestones are where your true story lives.

 

The road less traveled isn’t lonely; it’s where dreamers meet.

Every detour adds a new chapter to your map.