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"Today as never before in their history Americans are enthralled with military power. The global military supremacy that the United States presently enjoys - and is bent on perpetuating - has become central to our national identity.  More than America's matchless material abundance or
even the effusions of its pop culture, the nation's arsenal of high-tech weaponry and the soldiers who employ that arsenal have come to signify who we are and what we stand for."

Andrew Bacevich, The New American Militarism
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging."

J.S. Bach

"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."

Sir Francis Bacon

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

Sir Francis Bacon

"There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely,
the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge."

Roger Bacon, (1220-1292) Source: Opus Majus, 1266-67
"Allow me to dispel a myth. People in the Middle East do not hate us for our freedom. They do not hate us for our lifestyle. They hate us because we have spent many years attempting to force them to emulate our lifestyle. The US government overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran and replaced him with the Shah. The US government gave weapons, intelligence and money to Saddam Hussein. The US government also helped Libyan Col. Qaddafi come to power, propped up the Saudi
monarchy and the Egyptian regime, and gave assistance to Osama bin Laden. Most Americans have forgotten these events. But the people of the Middle East will always remember. It was because of American troops in Saudi Arabia, lethal sanctions on Iraq, support for states in serious violation of International Law, and siding with Israel in its dispute with the Palestinians that terrorist leaders were able to recruit those individuals who caused 3,000 Americans to pay the ultimate price on September 11, 2001."

Michael J. Badnarik, (b 1954) July 2004
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."

Walter Bagehot, English social scientist (1826-1877)

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." 

Walter Bagehot

"A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or 
official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of 
government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it 
boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of 
business."

Walter Bagehot

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Walter Bagehot

"An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind."

Walter Bagehot

"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are 
governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

Walter Bagehot

"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to 
drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."

Walter Bagehot

"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptation."

Walter Bagehot

"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not 
knowing what is going on in other people's minds."

Walter Bagehot
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"Those who do not favor taking God's law as the ultimate standard for civil morality and public justice will be forced to substitute some other criterion of good and evil for it. The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God (which, we must note, was addressed specifically to perennial problems in political morality), then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be a law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some menís will against the will of other men. "Justice" then indeed becomes a verbal cloak for whatever serves the interests of the strongmen in society (whether their strength be that of physical might or of media manipulation). Men will either choose to be governed by God or to be ruled by tyrants."

Greg L. Bahnsen, By This Standard, p. 264f.

"No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office."

Covert Bailey

"There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed."

Gil Bailie

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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."  

Russell Baker, (1925 - )

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."

Russell Baker

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"I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS."

Robert Bakker

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"Like many Republicans, Bush used the life issue during election time to dupe conservatives into
voting for him, but after he was elected, the issue ceased to exist. What is even more incredible
is the way the issue seems to have disappeared from the hearts and minds of so-called conservatives. About the only commitment to the issue that a Republican needs today is a simple verbal acknowledgment. That he would actually be required to do anything consistent with that acknowledgment appears  unnecessary."

Chuck Baldwin, Who Are the Real Victims?, April 19, 2002

"No one is more dangerous than one who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity by definition is unassailable."

James Baldwin, (1924 - 1987) Notes of a native son, 1955


"The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological "atmosphere" or "climate" favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others."

Arthur Balfour, (1848-1930) Source: The Foundations of Belief, 1895
"How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?"

Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845

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"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."

Honoré De Balzac, (1799-1850)

"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."

Honoré de Balzac

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they 
give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

Honoré de Balzac

"A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe."

Honoré de Balzac

"Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its 
nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find 
monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation."

Honoré de Balzac

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

Honoré de Balzac

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"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect."

George Bancroft

"If the president can unilaterally order an attack on a nation halfway around the globe, which has not attacked the U.S., posed an imminent threat, or provided a traditional casus belli, the Constitution is dead. And if conservatives treat the Constitution as dead when it suits them, they should stop complaining when federal judges, liberal activists, and Democratic politicians do the same."

Doug Bandow

"The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose."

Ernie Banks

"The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money."

Ernie Banks

"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace."

Ernie Banks

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide."

French soldier Henri Barbusse, in his novel "Le Feu", 1915

"Big government conservatives are favorably disposed toward what neoconservative Irving Kristol has called a "conservative welfare state." (Neo-cons tend to be big government conservatives.) This means they support transfer payments that have a neutral or beneficial effect (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) and oppose those that subsidize bad behavior (welfare). Mr. Bush wants to reform Social Security and Medicare but not shrink either."

Fred Barnes, The Wall Street Journal, quoted in "Anti-Freedom Conservatism" by Sheldon Richman
"The war was the hard part. The hard part was putting together a coalition, getting 300,000 troops over there and all their equipment and winning. And it gets easier. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but it is not as hard as winning a war."

Fred Barnes, Fox News, 4/10/03
"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

Natalie Clifford Barney, (1876-1972) US writer

"To be one's own master is to be the slave of self."

Natalie Clifford Barney

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."

Natalie Clifford Barney

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"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."

Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)  The Little Minister [1891], Chapter 1

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do."

Sir James M. Barrie 

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

Sir James Matthew Barrie

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

Sir James Matthew Barrie

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

Sir James Matthew Barrie
"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."

Lynda Barry
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."

Marion Barry, Former Washington, D.C. Mayor
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

John Barrymore
"The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free -- which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state."

Alan Barth, (1906-1979) served on the editorial board of The Washington Post for thirty years
Source: The Loyalty of Free Men, 1951

"[F]ree men can never rely upon courts alone for the preservation of their freedom. Courts can give warning of danger. But they are really powerless to protect us from ourselves. They can remind us of our heritage. But they cannot preserve that heritage for us."

Alan Barth, The Rights of Free Men [1984]
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"Throughout most of American history, taxes were levied principally on consumption, rather than income. Except during the Civil War, the federal government was financed almost entirely by import duties and excise taxes until 1913, when our current income taxwas imposed. The Founding Fathers favored consumption taxes in part because they are harder to raise to confiscatory levels than incomes taxes. ... Experience shows that general sales tax rates much above 10 percent are very hard to collect. They encourage smuggling, black markets, evasion, production for personal use, substitution for untaxed commodities and other activities that erode the tax base. Thus, confining taxation to a form that is inherently hard to raise to excessive levels meant that the size of government would be severely limited."

Bruce Bartlett

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game."

Jacques Barzun
"Drunkenness is the ruin of reason. It is premature old age. It is temporary death."

St. Basil (330-379) 

"The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish."

Frédéric Bastiat
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"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone."

Frederic Bastiat, French laissez-faire economist (1801-1850)

"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it."                                  

Frederic Bastiat

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."

Frederic Bastiat 

"What then, is the common denominator to which all forms of socialism are reducible, and what is the bond that unites them against natural society, or society as planned by Providence? There is none except this: They do not want natural society. What they want is an artificial society, which has  come forth full-grown from the brain of its inventor... They quarrel over who will mould the human clay, but they agree that there is human clay to mould. Mankind is not in their eyes a living and harmonious being endowed by God Himself with the power to progress and to survive, but an inert mass  that has been waiting for them to give it feeling and life; human nature is not a subject to be studied, but matter on which to perform experiments."

Frederic Bastiat

"We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course. Life, faculties, production - in other words, individuality, liberty, property - this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

"Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works."

Frédéric Bastiat

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

Frédéric Bastiat

"The State is and ought to be nothing whatever but community force organized, not to be an instrument of oppression and mutual plunder among citizens, but, on the contrary, to guarantee to each his own, and to cause justice and security to reign."

Frédéric Bastiat, "Government" [1848]

"The State is and ought to be nothing whatever but community force organized, not to be an instrument of oppression and mutual plunder among citizens, but, on the contrary, to guarantee to each his own, and to cause justice and security to reign."

Frederic Bastiat

"There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are 'just' because the law makes them so."

Frederic Bastiat, Source: The Law, 1850

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"Count it a blessing that you're such a failure,
your second chance might never have come"
 
David Bazan of Pedro the Lion from the song Winners Never Quit
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"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."

Charles A. Beard, US historian; (1874-1948)

"At no time, at no place, in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it, except possibly the mention of "We, the people," in the preamble . . . When the Constitution was framed no respectable person called himself or herself a democrat."

Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard, America in Midpassage [1939] 

"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail."

Charles A. Beard
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melody Beattie
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"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."
 
Thomas Beecham, (1879-1961), British conductor. quoted in Sunday Times (London, Sept. 16, 1962)
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"There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion."

Henry Ward Beecher, US abolitionist and clergyman; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1813-1887) Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit [1887]

"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is 
the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble 
game." 

Henry Ward Beecher

"Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food."

Henry Ward Beecher

"When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is 
heaven or the lunatic asylum."

Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit [1887]

"There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent 
companions, and books."

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of 
faith."

Henry Ward Beecher

"The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then 
qualifies it with a 'but.'"

Henry Ward Beecher

"It is not what people eat, but what they digest, that makes them strong. It is not what they gain, 
but what they save, that makes them rich. It is not what they read, but what they remember, that 
makes them learned."

Henry Ward Beecher
"To comprehend the history of a thing is to unlock the mysteries of its present, and more, to disclose the profundities of its future."

Hilaire Belloc

"The standard of intellect in politics is so low that men of moderate mental capacity have to stoop in order to reach it."

Hillaire Belloc

"The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself."

Hilaire Belloc
"No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn."

Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo - Reconciliation Speech of 24/2/99 at St Mary's Cathedral Hall, Sydney, NSW
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"I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. 
It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle."

Robert Benchley, (1889 - 1945)

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

Robert Benchley

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." 

Robert Benchley

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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."

Sir Ernest Benn

"When faced with a choice between confronting an unpleasant reality and defending a set of comforting and socially accepted beliefs, most people choose the latter course."

W. Lance Bennett
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"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right."

Ezra Taft Benson, US administrator and Mormon leader; (1899-1994)

"If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security."

Ezra Taft Benson, Source: his book, An Enemy Hath Done This, 2002

"Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed."

Bernard Berenson
 
"I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free Firewood,' and my 
first thought was 'Who is Firewood and what has he done?'"

John Berger, English painter, teacher, art critic (1926 - )
"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."

Thomas Berger, (1924- ) Novelist
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"Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics."

G. C. Berkouwer
"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."

Isaiah Berlin,(1909-1997) Source: Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958

"Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time."

Isaiah Berlin, Source: Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century, 1950
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"The full area of ignorance is not mapped: we are at present only exploring its fringes."

J. D. Bernal, (1901-1971) Irish-born scientist
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.  Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country... It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world� We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."

Edward Bernays, in 'Propaganda', 1928

"Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government."

Edward Bernays, 'Propaganda' 1928 (p. 20)

"Karl von Weigand, foreign correspondent of the Hearst newspapers, an old hand at interpreting Europe and just returned from Germany, was telling us about Goebbels and his propaganda plans to consolidate Nazi power. Goebbels had shown Weigand his propaganda library, the best Weigand had ever seen. Goebbels, said Weigand, was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. ... Obviously the attack on the Jews of Germany was no emotional outburst of the Nazis, but a deliberate, planned campaign."

Edward Bernays, Biography of an Idea, 1933

"It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man."

Edward Bernays, taken from Tye, L. "The Father of Spin", 1998, p. 102

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

Yogi Berra
"Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?"

Philip Berrigan, Source: Hell, Healing and Resistance, Veterans Speak
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"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them."

Mary Berry, Chairman, U.S. Civil Rights Commission

"As a father, I must look at my son, and I must ask if there is anything I possess - any right, any piece of property, any comfort, any joy - that I would ask him to die to permit me to keep. I must ask if I believe that it would be meaningful - after his mother and I have loved each other and begotten him and loved him - for him to die in a lump with a number hanging around his neck. I must ask if his life would have come to meaning or nobility or any usefulness if he should sit - with his human hands and head and eyes - in the ####### of a bomber, dealing out pain and grief and death to people unknown to him. And my answer to all these questions is one that I must attempt to live by: No."

Wendell Berry, 'A Statement Against th War in Vietnam' Feb. 10, 1968

"Protest that endures... is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence."

Wendell Berry

"How many deaths of other people's children by bombing or starvation are we willing to accept in order that we may be free, affluent, and (supposedly) at peace? To that question I answer pretty quickly: None. And I know that I am not the only one who would give that answer: Please. No children. Don't kill any children for my benefit."

Wendell Berry, 'The Failure of War'

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"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting." 

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

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"As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."

Josh Billings, (Henry Wheeler Shaw) 1818-1885, American humorist and lecturer

"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."

Josh Billings

"The problem with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so."

Josh Billings (c.1874)

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."

Josh Billings

"He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero."

Josh Billings, "Stray Children," Everybody's Friend, 1874

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

Josh Billings

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than they love themselves."

Josh Billings

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"The framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny."

Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (1960)

"In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell."

Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, NYT v. US. 403 US 713

"For my own part, I believe that our Constitution, with its absolute guarantees of individual rights, is the best hope for the aspirations of freedom which men share everywhere. I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th Century straitjacket, unsuited for this age. It is old but not all old things are bad. The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today .... "

Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, "The Bill of Rights" [1960]
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"On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every pretense that it does not is a deceit."

H. J. Blackham

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"The compromise name, War Between the States, which our .... leaders thought best to use while the South still had her head in the lion's mouth, was, as they must have known, a clear misnomer. ... Nevertheless, whatever the war was, it was not war between the States. The States, as States, took no part in it, were not even known in it. It was a war between two thoroughly organized governments and for one great principle, that completely overshadowed all others - Southern Independence ... To every patriotic Southerner, War for Southern Independence should be a sacred name."

O.W. Blacknall, Lincoln as the South Should Know Him, 1915

"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."

Sir William Blackstone, (1723-1780) Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1765-69

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"Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan."

Hugh Blair

"True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to Him who made us, and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and the duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle."

Hugh Blair

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"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

William Blake, 'The Marriage of Heaven & Hell' (1757 - 1827)

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the 
sake of defending those that do."

William Blake
The hill of life is rising up -- behind me.
It's upward trail once called, as friend to friend.
Dim piques the summit now this wonder in me:
I miss the memory of who I might have been.

William Blake (1946- ) of America, "Reflections on the Journey"
"A person who trusts no one can't be trusted."

Jerome Blattner

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"The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this or that danger. The last and highest result of prayer is the knowledge of God -- the knowledge which is eternal life -- and by that knowledge, the transformation of human character, and of the world."

George John Blewett

"Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or 
failure has been dependent on the one he used most."

Robert Albert Bloch
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"American high school graduates are among the most sensitive illiterates in the world."

Allan Bloom, (1930-1992),The Closing of the American Mind, 1987

"Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities."

Alan Bloom, Source: The Closing of the American Mind

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"The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 
'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'"

Roy Blount Jr.
"What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States."

William Blum, (1933- )
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"Since the Protestant rebellion against Rome had arisen in part as a result of Biblical study and interpretation, it became obvious to Protestant leaders that if the Reform movement were to survive and flourish, widespread Biblical literacy, at all levels of society, would be absolutely necessary. The Bible was to be the moral and spiritual authority in every man's life, and therefore an intimate knowledge of it was imperative if a new Protestant social order were to take root."

Samuel Blumenfeld, Is Public Education Necessary?, p. 10

"The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education."

Samuel Blumenfeld, Is Public Education Necessary?, p. 30

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"American elections are a referendum on indifference. The remarkable dead-heat distribution of the one hundred million votes(in the 2000 presidential race) indicates how difficult it is to distinguish between the two parties."

Burt Blumert

"At the National Recovery Administration (NRA), the cartel-creating agency at the heart of the early New Deal, one report declared forthrightly, �The Fascist Principles are very similar to those we have been evolving here in America.""

David Boaz
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Paul Boese

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"A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz."

Humphrey Bogart

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"He who knows himself best esteems himself least."

Henry George Bohn, (1796-1884) English publisher and translator

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

Niels Bohr, (1885 - 1962)
"Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past."

Landrum Bolling
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"For it is utterly impossible that any finite cause, created power, or anything out of God himself, should primarily move and incline the eternal, immutable, uncreated, omnipotent will of God. The true  original and prime motive of all gracious, bountiful expressions and effusions of love upon his elect, is the good pleasure of his will. And therefore to hold that election to life is made upon foresight of faith, good works the right use of free will, or any created motive, is not only false and wicked, but also ignorant and absurd tenet. To say no more at this time, it robs God of his all-sufficiency, making him go out of himself, looking to this or that in the creature, upon which his will may be determined to elect."

Robert Bolton

"Gold can no more fill the spirit of a man, than grace his purse. A man may as well fill a bag with wisdom, as the soul with the world."

Robert Bolton

"In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments."

Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own poor performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son. ..."

Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), "The Everlasting Righteousness"

"Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. The whole work is His, not ours, from first to last."

Horatius Bonar, "The Everlasting Righteousness"

"The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, 'Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee.' It says at once, 'Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.'"

Horatius Bonar

"Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed.
Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed.
Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed."

Horatius Bonar

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"Someone quoting the hackneyed sarcasm that "between Protestantism and Romanism there is but a paper wall," the reply was, "True, but the whole Bible is printed on it."

Paul Bonchard

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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906-1945) German Lutheran theologian

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which without temptation he could 
never have known; for in temptation man knows on what he has set his heart. The coming to light of 
sin is the work of the accuser, who thereby thinks to have won the victory. But it is sin which is 
become manifest which can be known, and therefore forgiven. Thus the manifestation of sin belongs 
to the salvation plan of God with man, and Satan must serve this plan..."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Temptation [1955]
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." 

Margaret Bonnano

 

"If we want Iraq to avoid becoming a Somalia on steroids, we'd better get 
used to U.S. troops being deployed there for years, possibly decades, to 
come. If that raises hackles about American imperialism, so be it. We're 
going to be called an empire whatever we do. We might as well be a 
successful empire."

Max Boot, Imperialist (2003)
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"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."

William H. Borah, (1865-1940) U. S. Senator

"No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right."

William E. Borah

"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when  we decide how to respond."

Jeffery Borenstein
 
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's 
where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."

Nathaniel Borenstein

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"Culture is a stubborn opponent. To defeat it requires the coercion of humans."

Robert Bork

"In the past few decades American institutions have struggled with the temptations of politics. Professions and academic disciplines that once possessed a life and structure of their own have steadily succumbed, in some cases almost entirely, to the belief that nothing matters beyond politically desirable results, however achieved. In this quest, politics invariably tries to dominate another discipline, to capture and use it for politics' own purposes, while the second subject--law, religion, literature, economics, science, journalism, or whatever--struggles to maintain its independence. But retaining a separate identity and integrity becomes increasingly difficult as more and more areas of our culture, including the life of the intellect, perhaps especially the life of the intellect, become politicized. It is coming to be denied that anything counts, not logic, not objectivity, not even intellectual honesty, that stands in the way of the 'correct' political outcome."

Robert Bork

"As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago."

Robert Bork

"The free market requires men and women whose word can be trusted and who have formed personal traits of self-discipline, prudence, and self-denial or the deferment of gratifications. Smaller government requires many of the same qualities so that individuals will not constantly turn to a powerful state to offer them complete security and a cornucopia of favors bought with other people's money."

Robert Bork

"One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods."

Robert Bork

"[A] society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."

Robert Bork

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"Defense is baseball's visible poetry and its invisible virtue."

Thomas Boswell, baseball writer, 1984

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"Wartime brings the ideal of the State out into very clear relief, and reveals attitudes and tendencies that were hidden. In times of peace the sense of the State flags in a Republic that is not militarized. For war is essentially the health of the State."

Randolph Bourne (1919)

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"You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."

Jim Bouton, Major League pitcher, 1970

"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?"

Jim Bouton
"It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy ... The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States."

Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"Americans' ignorance has become an entitlement to power for lying politicians. And because many Americans know little or nothing about the world beyond the U.S. border, their gullibility on foreign policy is boundless - and so is the president's power."

James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy, [2006]

"Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution."

James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy [2006]

"A democratic government that respects no limits on its own power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect."

James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy [2006]

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"If we made the effort to comprehend the underlying political principles and spiritual values that generated our Constitution and gave birth to what was to become the greatest triumph of collective human effort in the history of the world, we would be better positioned to ask the kind of questions we  need to ask of those who want to lead us."

Linda Bowles

"Liberals are constitutionally unable to understand that every tax represents a transfer of power and  freedom from the people to the government."

Linda Bowles

"The tragedy-in-process that moves our country toward socialism is based on the success of liberalism in teaching people to look to big government rather than to themselves for the satisfaction of their needs -- and to man's law, rather than to God's commandments, for moral direction. The ultimate tragedy will consist of a massive redistribution of wealth and power -- not as is commonly believed from one citizen to another, but from all citizens to the government."

Linda Bowles

"In increasing numbers, Americans believe that it is the responsibility - nay, the duty - of the federal government to take the earnings of some Americans and redistribute them to other Americans for various and sundry "good" reasons including "fairness."  Citizens who know it is wrong to use force to take money from a neighbor have rationalized that it is OK for the government to do it for them."

Linda Bowles

"Taxes are not just about money. Every tax represents a transfer of power and freedom from the people to the government. The underlying premise of every tax is that the money will do more good in the hands of government than in the hands of the people who earned it."

Linda Bowles

"The big pushes during Clinton's two terms in office were to: raise taxes, cover up the Travelgate scandal, increase government spending, diversify the sexes from two to five, transfer America's manufacturing base to needy foreign countries, legitimize sexual deviancy, sissify the military, cover up Whitewater, foster class warfare, cover up the massacres of American citizens at Waco and Ruby Ridge, keep as many members of the cabinet out of jail as possible, shred 12 tons of incriminating documents, defend racial discrimination against people of non-color, defend welfare as we know it, strip marriage of its meaning by extending its benefits to odd couples, defend and promote infanticide, register welfare recipients to vote, expand benefits for illegal aliens, blame school violence on inanimate objects, recruit illegal aliens to the Democrat Party, raise money to defend the president against a pants-dropping charge, put the Creator of the Universe under house arrest, confiscate private property, control the amount of water used in a toilet flush, deny parents the right to choose schools for their children, mainstream hustler Larry Flynt, subvert the Constitution with loophole-lawyering, return California and Texas to Mexico, foster anti-American multiculturalism, start Cold War II, promote the idea that ######## is not sex, mangle the English language with legal babble, prove you can lie under oath and get away with it, establish the moral precedent that adultery is OK if the wife doesn't care, protect endangered weeds and kangaroo rats from farmers, keep Hillary out of jail, develop an affirmative-action program for a venereal disease, promote cigars as ########, rent out the Lincoln Bedroom, put degeneracy on a pedestal, socialize medicine, sell nuclear secrets to China, criminalize 'incorrect' thought, use the United Nations to teach Third World countries the joys of wholesale abortions, cover up the cover-ups, meddle in the internal affairs of other nations, wage illegal wars, and teach underage children how to have sex without consequences."

Linda Bowles

"The belief that government schools are neutral on morality and religion is extraordinarily naive. Once it becomes clear that government schools indoctrinate captive students in the tenets and dogma of humanism to the exclusion of all other religions, it also becomes clear that the government itself is in the business of establishing a state-run, religious monopoly. It is time for the total privatization of schools and the building of a wall of separation between state and education."

Linda Bowles

"Battle doesn't determine who is right. Only who is left."

Peter Bowman, in Beach Red
"Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to provide people with moral consolation and a psychological basis for denial."

William H. Boyer

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"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has 
achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants 
and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we 
know about living."

General Omar Bradley
"If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon."

Johannes Brahms,  (1833 - 1897)

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"There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul."

David Brainerd

"Of late I have thought much of having the kingdom of God advanced in the world; but now I saw I 
had enough to do within myself."

David Brainerd, Journal, (April 8, 1743)
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"Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary.  They valued liberty both as an end and as a means.  They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

Louis D. Brandeis, Whitney vs California, 1927

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

Robert Brault

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"I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior 
rationality behind the existence of the universe, as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the 
advances of science."

Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977) rocket scientist

"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass 
produced with unskilled labor."

Wernher von Braun
"Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk."

Bertolt Brecht, (1898-1956) German dramatist, stage director, and poet

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."
Bertolt Brecht, The Life of Galileo (1939) sc. 9

"The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. 
Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the 
butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out 
'stop!'
 
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable, the cries 
are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer."

Bertolt Brecht

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"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."

Gerald Brenan (1894-1987)

"The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win."

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, (1906-1982) Soviet leader 
"An egotist is a self-made man who worships his creator."

John Bright

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"The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

Peter Brimelow

"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for 
it is not to be trusted with the office."

David Broder

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"Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God."

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."

A. Whitney Brown, comedian, from his book 'The Big Picture'

"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."

A. Whitney Brown

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"Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority."

James A. C. Brown, (1911-1964) Source: Techniques of Persuasion, 1963

"I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution."

Harry Browne, (1933-2006)

"Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats."

Harry Browne

"A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out."

Harry Browne
"The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth,
has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority."

Sir Thomas Browne, (1605-1682) Source: Religio Medici, 1642
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"Be assured that if this new provision [the 14th Amendment] be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our government, and sweep away all the guarantees of safety devised and provided by our patriotic Sires of the Revolution."

Orville Browning, (1806-1881) US Senator for Illinois, 1867
"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

Robert Browning, (1812-1889), British poet

"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all;
Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."
 
Robert Browning, The Flight of the Duchess, st. 17

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"Communism is like one big phone company."

Lenny Bruce, (1925-1966)
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"No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others."

Tammy Bruce, Source: The New Thought Police, 2001

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"Utopias of historical progress cannot seduce those who believe in Christ. Utopias are the straws 
to which those cling who have no real hope; utopias are as unattractive as they are incredible, 
for those who know what real hope is. Utopias are not a consequence of true hope but a poor 
substitute for it and therefore a hindrance and not a help. The hope that is in Jesus Christ is 
different from all utopias of universal progress. It is based on the revelation of the crucified 
one. It is, therefore, not an uncertain speculation about the future but a certainty based upon 
what God has already revealed. One cannot believe in Jesus Christ without knowing for certain that 
God's victory over all powers of destruction, including death, is the end towards which the time 
process moves as its own end."

Emil Brunner, (1889-1966), The Scandal of Christianity [1951]
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely 
because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a 
majority of the people."

Giordano Bruno, (1548-1699) Source: On Shadows of Ideas
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"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and 
other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply 
provided with them."

Jean de La Bruyère, (1645 - 1696)

"A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of 
every honest citizen."

Jean De La Bruyère, Source: Les Caracteres, 1688

"Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its students."

Jean De La Bruyère

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

Jean De La Bruyère
"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."

James Bryce

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"There is a reason the Founding Fathers separated the power to conduct war from the power to 
declare it. The reason is just such a ruler as George W. Bush, a man possessed of an ideology and 
sense of mission that are not necessarily coterminous with what is best for his country. Under our
Constitution, it is Congress, not the president, who decides on war...."
Pat Buchanan, 'Of Imperial Presidents And Congressional Cowards', 04/28/2006

"Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey."

"Historians will one day marvel that, as their Southwest was slipping away from the United States  - demographically, linguistically and culturally - Americans were fighting to keep Iraq together. Remarkable. Foreigners are invading and occupying Arizona, while Americans are fighting for Anbar province."

Pat Buchanan, The Bush Malaise, 04/03/2006

"What support is there in history for the view that as we meddle in the affairs of foreign nations, we advance our security? How would we have responded in the 19th century if Britain had declared a policy of destabilizing the American Union until Andrew Jackson abolished slavery?"

Pat Buchanan, Here We Go Again, 12/10/2003

"A lot of what we call science is actually faith in disguise. I think some people were desperately searching for something other than traditional Christianity, and they have elevated to the level of hard truth some things - notably about Darwin - that have not yet been proven beyond dispute. To believe in the theory of evolution is to me as much of an act of faith as to believe in Adam and Eve. I don't think it's been proven at all. I remember Piltdown Man, and the bones of that 'prehistoric ancestor of mankind' in Africa that turned out to be the bones of a pig. There is a lot of hoax and fraud in the contentions of science. The theory of evolution contains as much hypothesis as any religion."

Patrick Buchanan, Right Now! June 2002

"Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme.'"

Patrick Buchanan, Right Now! June 2002

"An important point is that the correlation between the death of religious faith and the death of peoples and civilisation is absolute. I believe that the death of Christianity in the soul of Western man, and its replacement by a more materialistic, hedonistic, individualistic, la dolce vita belief, and the embrace of the sexual revolution combined, mean that Western man has consumed a carcinogenic that is killing him. Peoples that no longer believe in the cult out of which their culture and civilisation came will not sustain that civilisation. And as TS Eliot said: "If Christianity goes, the whole of our culture goes". The Christian faith and belief in which Western man was marinaded for 2,000 years was fundamentally the immune system of the West, which warded off all manner of psychic infections. But Christianity has died, and been replaced by a new faith of secular humanism, which is having an effect on the West comparable to that of the HIV virus on a person. Eventually, it will kill us."

Right Now! June 2002

"Global capitalism and Marxism share a belief that it is far better to have women in the marketplace than at home. The old Marxists - Marx, Engels and the others - wanted to bring down the traditional family, and move women out of the home and into the marketplace, to make them independent of the family. The global capitalists want the same thing. Women who live at home are not consuming or producing enough, they think. Global capitalism seeks to make everyone an employee, everyone a worker. There is a tremendous premium on bringing into the marketplace talented and capable women workers - who are more reliable in many cases - so that they can boost productivity and consume more goods."

Right Now! June 2002

"Is the New Morality itself the drug invented by anti-Christians to bring about the assisted suicide of the Christian West they always detested? Today's children are going to find out."

The Assisted Suicide of the West, April 2002

"Americans seem unable to understand that there exists today in the dreams of internationalists and globalists a plan for a world government, the rise of which requires an end to the independence, sovereignty and liberty of the country we love and to which we have sworn allegiance.
And just as the United States government grew in power to where it asserted a right to crush in a civil war and dominate the states that had created it at Philadelphia, so the goal of the coming world government is to supersede and one day rule the nations that midwifed its first-born institutions in the closing days of World War II."

World Government Rising, April 2002

"A prediction: In coming decades, involuntary euthanasia will be commonplace in Europe, and Gen-Xers' battles to stay alive into old age will be treated with the same cold contempt as they treated the silent screams of the unborn. Millions will be put to sleep like aged and incontinent household pets. Since the 1960s, the radical young have pleaded for a world free of the strictures of the old Christian morality. They are close to getting what they have demanded; and my sense is that they will not like what they get."

"When the Confederate battle flag became a blazing controversy (during the 2000 presidential primary), Governor Bush said it was for the South Carolinians to decide. But, as soon as the primary was over, he ordered memorial plaques to Confederate war dead taken down from the Texas Supreme Court."

Death of the West, p. 206

(I guess it wasn't for Texans like me to decide on that issue. RAB)

"In the story of slavery and the slave trade, Western Man was among the many villains, but Western Man was also the only hero. For the West did not invent slavery, but it alone abolished slavery. Had it not been for the West, African rulers would still be trafficking in the flesh of their kinsmen. Slaves, after all, were the leading cash crop of the friends of Mansa Musa. In Mauritania and Sudan today, slavery has returned, to the deafening silence of intellectuals who have built careers on the moral shakedown of America and the West. America was a segregated society, but in no other nation do people enjoy greater freedom, opportunity, and prosperity than here in the United States."

Death of the West, p. 220

".... NATO has been converted into a neoimperialist bloc, which now asserts a sovereign right to attack and invade small nations like Serbia in the name of democracy and human rights. The Founding Fathers would have been ashamed of what Clinton and Albright did to the Serbs. This small nation did not attack us, did not threaten us, did not seek war with us. Yet we smashed Serbia as horribly as Hitler had, for defying our demand for an unrestricted right of passage through their land, to tear off the cradle of their country, Kosovo."

Death of the West, p. 242

"While vigilance against terrorism and a defense against missile attack by rogue nations are national priorities, the best way to avoid any attack on our nation or its armed forces is to get them out of harm's way, by disengaging the United States from ideological, religious, ethnic, historic, or territorial quarrels that are none of America's business. .... What happened on September 11, 2001, was a direct consequence of an interventionist U.S. policy in an Islamic world where no threat to our vital interests justifies our massive involvement. We are a republic, not an empire. And until we restore the foreign policy urged upon us by our Founding Fathers - of staying out of other nation's quarrels - we shall know no end of war and no security or peace in our own homeland."

Death of the West, p. 242

"Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free."

"The way to keep America free and secure is to stay out of wars that do not affect our vital interests, and let alien societies work out their own destinies. As time was our ally against communism, which did not work, so time is our ally against Islamism, which also does not work."

"With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments.  The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win - and U.S. taxpayers lose."

<End of Pat Buchanan quotes>
"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got."

Art Buchwald, 1925 - 2007

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."

Art Buchwald

"Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."

Art Buchwald

"I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team."

Art Buchwald

"People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' ... For me, being funny is the best revenge."

Art Buchwald
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"One faces the future with one's past."

Pearl S. Buck

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and 
achieve it, generation after generation."

Pearl S. Buck
"Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."

William F. Buckley, Jr., (1925- ) American author and journalist, founded 'National Review'
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"Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips 
over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to 
come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving 
back - in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing 
down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."

Frederick Buechner
"Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by military force. If that attempt is made, the blessings of liberty will be replaced by coercion and tyranny at home. Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns. Persuasion and example are the methods taught by the Carpenter of Nazareth, and if we believe in Christianity we should try to advance our ideals by his methods. We cannot practice might and force abroad and retain freedom at home. We cannot talk world cooperation and practice power politics."

Rep. Howard Buffet, Sen. Robert Taft's Campaign Manager, 1952
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"There are no warlike people -- just warlike leaders."

Ralph Bunche
"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing."
 
Luis Buñuel, (1900-1983), Spanish filmmaker. My Last Sigh, ch. 1 (1983)

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"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."

John Bunyan

"You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed."

John Bunyan

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"The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims."

Jakob Burckhardt, (1818-1897) Swiss historian

"The barbarian and the creature of exclusively modern civilization both live without history."

Jakob Burckhardt

"It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose."

Robert Jones Burdette, (1844-1914) Humorist

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"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

"In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority ...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species."

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men."

Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 249.

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue?  It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.  Our antagonist is our helper."

"Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition."

"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue." 

"The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded."

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

"The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's 
pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another."

Source: quoted by Lord Acton in Lectures on the French Revolution (London: 1910), in J. Rufus Fears 
(Ed.), Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Vol. 1: Essays in the History of Liberty (Indianapolis:
LibertyClassics, 1985), p. 206
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"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."

Leo J. Burke 

"I pick up favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, 
amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."

Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
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"The name of our federation is not Consolidated States, but United States. A number of states held together by coercion, or the point of the bayonet, would not be a Union. Union is necessarily voluntary - the act of choice, free association. Nor can this voluntary system be changed to one of force without the destruction of "The Union". The Austrian Empire is composed of several States, as the Hungarians, the Poles, the Italians, etc, but it cannot be called a Union - it is Despotism. Is the relation between Russia and bayonet held Poland a Union? Is it not an insult and a mockery to call the compulsory relation between England and Ireland a Union? In all these cases there is only such a union as exist between the talons of the hawk and the dove, or between the jaws of the wolf and the lamb. A Union of States necessarily implies separate sovereignty, voluntarily acting together. And to bruise these distinct sovereignties into one mass of power is, simply, to destroy the Union - to overthrow our system of government."

C.C. Burr, in The Federal Government: Its True Nature and Character

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."

Augusten Burroughs
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"The love of God in all other things, in comparison of the love of God in Christ revealed in the gospel, is as a little spark of fire in comparison of the heat in a furnace."

Jeremiah Burroughs, (1599-1646), Gospel Conversation, p.75

"Certainly when a soul comes to understand the goodness of God, how God began with us in making peace before ever we had thoughts of it, it will be a mighty argument to put the soul to the doing of any duty which God calls for, and to be speedy in the service of God, because He was pleased at first to begin."

Jeremiah Burroughs,(Gospel Reconciliation, p. 81)

"You neither know God nor Christ nor your own state unless you know the necessity of Christ's coming to undertake the work of reconciliation."

Jeremiah Burroughs,(Gospel Reconciliation, p. 90)

"Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue."

Jeremiah Burroughs, Gospel Conversation, p.297-298

"If you fear God's Word, you need fear nothing else."

Jeremiah Burroughs, (Gospel Fear, p.23)

"If you would know, be willing to come with a heart willing to yield to what you do know."

Jeremiah Burroughs, (Gospel Fear, p.28)

"All the beautiful objects in the world are not so lovely in the eye of God as a heart that trembles at the Word."

Jeremiah Burroughs, (Gospel Fear, p.3)

"They receive the Word as the plague who do not obey it."

Jeremiah Burroughs, (Gospel Fear, p.20)

"We cannot be sensible of hardness without tenderness."

Jeremiah Burroughs, (Gospel Fear, p.144)

"If you are so sensible of the evil of your sin that it turns your heart from it and makes you prize the grace of God, then certainly you have that tenderness of heart the Scripture calls for."

Jeremiah Burroughs, (Gospel Fear, p.147)

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

Sir Richard F. Burton
In her memoirs, Barbara Bush described one of those most embarrassing moments that inevitably occur, even on the most carefully advanced of foreign trips. Along with her husband, then the Vice President, Mrs. Bush was lunching with Emperor Hirohito at Tokyo's Imperial Palace.

Sitting next to the Emperor, Mrs. Bush found the conversation an uphill task. To all her efforts at verbal engagement, the Emperor would smile and say "Yes" or "No," with an occasional "Thank You" tossed in for good measure.

Looking around her elegant surroundings, she complimented Hirohito on his official residence.

"Thank you," he said.

"Is it new?" pressed Mrs. Bush.

"Yes."

"Was the old palace just so old that it was falling down?" asked Mrs. Bush.

In his most charming, yet regal, matter, Hirohito replied, "No, I'm afraid that you bombed it."
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"The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!" 
George W. Bush; First presidential debate

"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them."

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."

George W. Bush, from a speech at the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development in Wash. DC, 6/18/02

Note: Orwell would be so proud! RAB


"The irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this #### and it's over ... I felt like telling Kofi to get on the phone with Assad, make something happen."

George W. Bush, to Tony Blair at G8 meeting, July 2006


"We're too great a nation to allow the evildoers to affect our soul."

George W. Bush, (1946- ) 43rd US President, Yale Skull & Bones Society

"This time, we're not waiting for our enemies to gather in strength. This time, we're confronting 
them before they gain the capacity to inflict unspeakable damage on the world. And we're confronting 
their hateful ideology before it fully takes root."

George W. Bush, stating the 'Bush Doctrine' of aggression
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"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."

Sir William Francis Butler

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"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust."

Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance."

Samuel Butler

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"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

"There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule."

Samuel Butler

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

Samuel Butler

"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

Samuel Butler

"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing 
it practiced."

Samuel Butler

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

Samuel Butler
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Now - you Mothers, particularly! The only way you can resist all this war hysteria and beating of tom-toms is by asserting the love you bear your boys. When you listen to some well worded, some well-delivered war speech, just remember it's nothing but sound. No amount of sound can make up to you for the loss of your boy. After you've heard one of those speeches and your blood's all hot - go upstairs to where your boy's asleep.. . . Look at him. Put your hand on that spot on the back of his neck. The place you used to love to kiss when he was a baby. Just rub it a little. You won't wake him up, he knows it's you. Just look at his strong, fine young body because only the best boys are chosen for war. Look at this splendid young creature who's part of yourself, then close you eyes for a moment and I'll tell you what can happen....



Somewhere - five thousand miles from home. Night. Darkness. Cold. A drizzling rain. The noise is terrific. All Hell has broken loose. A star shell burst in the air. Its unearthly flare lights up the muddy field. There's a lot of tangled rusty barbed wires out there and a boy hanging over them - his stomach ripped out, and he's feebly calling for help and water. His lips are white and drawn. He's in agony.

There's your boy.


Gen. Smedley Butler USMC (Ret.)
 Radio address October, 1939
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"

U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler
"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house.... The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state."

Richard E. Byrd, (1888-1947) Polar explorer, Virginia House Speaker
Source: 1910, predicting the consequences of a federal income tax
"The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau."

James F. Byrnes

"Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company."

George Gordon Noel Byron, 1788 - 1824, English Poet

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."

George Gordon Noel Byron

"All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin."

George Gordon Noel Byron

"Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it - peace!"

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) -Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto II, st. 20)
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