“The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. “
— Leo Tolstoy
“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause […]
“Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.”
— Charles Péguy, Ève (1913)
“If you tell the truth, you do not need a good memory.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
“Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
— George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
“The vocation of being a “protector”, however, is not just something involving us Christians alone; it also has a prior dimension which is simply human, involving everyone. It means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us. It means […]
“To a linguist, language is everything; to a poet, not so much.”
— WSM
”Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?
― Chico Marx, Duck Soup (1933)
“Every story reveals itself in its own time.”
— WSM
“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions … .”
— John Locke, The […]
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. “
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
— Euripides
“Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.”
— Clarence Darrow
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietsche
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“He sang in those mountains [the Bolivian Andes] by a bonfire, old songs written by broken men in love with their own vanishing nature.”
— Patti Smith (August 1, 2017)
Kelly Diephuis has rejoined Wayne Mackeson, PC.