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Jackson, Robert H. Jackson, Thomas
"Stonewall" Jackson, Jeff Jacoby, Mogens Jallberg, Dresden
James, P.D. James, William James,
Storm Jameson, John Jay,
Charles
E. Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Jeni, Jerome K. Jerome,
Steve Jobs, Andrew
Johnson, Chalmers
Johnson, Gerald
W. Johnson, Paul Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Arthur Jones, E.
Stanley Jones, Franklin P. Jones, L. Gregory Jones, Erica
Jong,
Joseph
Joubert, John
Henry Jowett, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Carl Jung |
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Dear
Lovers of Liberty, the struggle is
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"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government
to their selfish purposes."
Andrew Jackson, (1767 - 1845)
"Never take counsel of your fears."
Andrew Jackson
"Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and
thirst for exclusive privileges, you will in the end find that the most important powers
of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests
have been passed into the hands of these corporations."
Andrew Jackson, farewell address, 04 March 1837
"Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary
money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right
to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That
was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on
the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned."
Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (born October 8, 1941) 'How we respect life is the over-riding
moral issue'; Right to Life News, January 1977
"What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the
aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and
what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually?
It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with
regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting
mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here
on earth."
Jesse Jackson
"It is not the
function of our Government to keep the citizen
from falling into error;
it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling
into error."
"General," I (Captain, later Brigadier General John D. Imboden) remarked, "how is it that you can keep so cool. and appear so utterly insensible to danger in such a storm of shell and bullets as rained about you when your hand was hit?" He instantly became grave and reverential in his manner, and answered, in a low tone of great earnestness: "Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me." He added, after a pause, looking me full in the face: "That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave."
From "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War", G.F.R. Henderson, Vol 1, p 163
"I do not profess any romantic sentiments as to the vanity of life. Certainly no man has more that should make life dear to him than I have, in the affection of my home; but I do not desire to survive the independence of my country."
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, from "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War", G.F.R. Henderson, Vol 2, p 346
"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth."
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Jackson's determined bearing (during a critical and desperate moment at the First Battle of Manasas or Bull Run) inspired (General) Bee with renewed confidence. He turned bridle and galloped back to the ravine where his officers were attempting to reform their broken companies. Riding into the midst of the throng, he pointed with his sword to (Jackson's) Virginia regiments, deployed in well-ordered array on the height above. 'Look!' he shouted, 'there is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!' The men took up the cry; and the happy augery of the expression, applied at a time when defeat seemed imminent and hearts were failing, was remembered when the danger had passed away.
from 'Stonewall Jackson & the American Civil War', C.F.R. Henderson, Vol. 1, p 145
(His troops) invented fables of which he was the hero. 'Stonewall died,' ran one of the most popular, 'and two angels came down from heaven to take him back with them. They went to his tent. He was not there. They went to the hospital. He was not there. They went to the outposts. He was not there. They went to the prayer-meeting. He was not there. So they had to return without him; but when they reported that he had disappeared, they found that he had made a flank march and reached heaven before them.'
from 'Stonewall Jackson & the American Civil War', C.F.R. Henderson, Vol. 2, p 282
"In Jackson's mind, slaves were children of God placed in subordinate situations for reasons only the Creator could explain. Helping them was a missionary effort for Jackson. Their souls had to be saved. Although Jackson could not alter the social status of slaves, he could and did display Christian decency to those whose lot it was to be in ####### - he was emphatically the black man's friend."
Dr. James I. Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, The Man, The Soldier, The Legend
"Soon after one of the great battles, a large crowd gathered one day at the post office in Lexington, anxiously awaiting the opening of the mail, that they might get the particulars concerning the great battle which they had heard had been fought. The venerable pastor of the Presbyterian Church (Rev. Dr. W.S. White, from whom I received the incident) was of the company, and soon had handed him a letter which he recognized as directed in Jackson's well known handwriting. 'Now,' said he, 'we will have the news! Here is a letter from General Jackson himself.' The crowd eagerly gathered around, but heard to their very great disappointment a letter which made not the most remote allusion to the battle or the war, but which enclosed a check for fifty dollars with which to buy books for his colored Sunday school, and was filled with inquiries after the interests of the school and the church. He had no time for inclination to write of the great victory and the imperishable laurels he was winning; but he found time to remember his noble work among God's poor, and to contribute further to the good of the Negro children whose true friend and benefactor he had always been. And he was accustomed to say that one of the very greatest privations to him which the war brought, was that he was taken away from his loved work in the colored Sunday school."
William Jones, Christ in the Camp
"Jackson thus acquired a wonderful influence over the colored people of that whole region, and to this day his memory is warmly cherished by them. When Hunter's army was marching into Lexington, the Confederate flag which floated over Jackson's grave was hauled down and concealed by some of the citizens. A lady who stole into the cemetery one morning while the Federal army was occupying the town, bearing fresh flowers with which to decorate the hero's grave, was surprised to find a miniature Confederate flag planted on the grave with a verse of a familiar hymn pinned to it. Upon inquiry she found that a colored boy, who had belonged to Jackson's Sunday school, had procured the flag, gotten some one to copy a stanza of a favorite hymn which Jackson had taught him, and had gone in the night to plant the flag on the grave of his loved teacher."
William Jones,
Christ
in the Camp
"In democracy its your vote that counts. In feudalism its your count that votes."
Mogens Jallberg
"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
Dresden James
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly
self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are,
therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
Dresden James
"I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends
shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism."
P.D. James,(1920- )"Paris Review" [1995]
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
William James,
(1842-1910)
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William James
"There is no more
miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but
indecision."
William James
"We never fully
grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of
what the opposite untrue statement would be."
William James
"Many people think
they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices."
William James
"The greatest use of life is to
spend it for something that will outlast it."
"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I
have not received."
Storm Jameson, (1891 -1986)
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk
life, to be needed."
Storm Jameson
"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies."
Charles E.
Jefferson
(1860-1937)
"I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm
enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'"
Richard Jeni
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an
exceptionally good liar."
Jerome K. Jerome, (May 2, 1859 - June 14, 1927) was an English humourist author
"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks
have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not
true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far
more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have
a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's
the truth."
Steve Jobs, Wired (February 1996)
"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
Andrew Johnson, (1808-1875) 17th President of the United States
"There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern
themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will most respectfully say that I entertain
none . . . If man is not capable, and is not to be trusted with the government of himself,
is he to be trusted with the government of others . . . Who, then, will govern? The answer
must be, Man for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take
charge of our political affairs."
Andrew Johnson
"Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who
have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my
pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor [Lincoln] had lived, the vials of
wrath would have been poured out upon him."
Andrew Johnson
"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
Andrew Johnson
"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be
well with the country."
Andrew Johnson
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
Andrew Johnson
"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
Andrew Johnson
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."
Andrew Johnson
"Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and
more severely, than by one."
Andrew Johnson
"We have no legal authority more than private citizens,and within it we have only so much
as that instrument gives us.This broad principle limits all our functionsand applies to
all subjects."
Andrew Johnson
"I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in
approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will
rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of
envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites
in church can have no peace."
Andrew Johnson
Gerald W. Johnson
"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men."
Gerald W. Johnson (1890-1980) Source: American Freedom and the Press, 1958
Dr. Samuel
Johnson, English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer
(1709-1784)
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intelligence."
Source: The Rambler, 1750-52
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
"Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them
short of hanging."
on Americans
"To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is
voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage."
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), James Boswell March 20, 1782
"Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he
convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment."
Prayers and Meditations, No. 1770 (1785)
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
"Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is
particularly fine, strike it out."
"A foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
"He that hopes to look back
hereafter
with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value
of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall
useless
to the ground."
Rambler #108
"The future is purchased by the present."
"Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is therefore superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain."
Rambler #185
"Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries."
Rambler #185
"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men.""Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good."
"Excise, n. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid."
"If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system."
"The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life or better to
endure it."
"To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human
wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and
the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions."
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not
to trust."
The Rambler No. 79 (December 18, 1750)
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are
commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
The Idler
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world
affords."
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) James Boswell ,Letter, June 8, 1762 [to an unnamed
recipient], p. 103
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) James Boswell, December 21, 1762
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance,
it lasts so short a time."
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) James Boswell October 26, 1769, p. 174
"It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age."
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) James Boswell, April 9, 1778
"All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it."
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) James Boswell April 15, 1778, p. 393
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public
library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of
laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue."
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not
have an opportunity to use any of the others."
"The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."
"An antique is something that's been useless so long it's still in pretty good condition."
Franklin P. Jones
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make
it again."
Franklin P. Jones
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
Franklin P. Jones
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Erica Jong
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth."
Joseph Joubert, (1754-1824) Essayist
"Tenderness is the repose of passion"
Joseph Joubert
"A part of kindness consists
in loving people more than
they deserve."
Joseph Joubert
"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
Joseph Joubert
"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to
explain him."
Joseph Joubert
"Justice is the truth in action."
Joseph Joubert
"Superstition is the only religion
of which base souls
are capable of."
Joseph Joubert
"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be
stung by bees."
Joseph Joubert
"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it
with you."
Joseph Joubert
"All that
is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought."
Joseph Joubert
"Genius begins
great works; labor alone finishes them."
Joseph
Joubert
"It is better to
debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without
debating it."
Joseph Joubert
"The aim of
an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress."
Joseph Joubert
"Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear."
Joseph Joubert
John Henry Jowett, (1841-1923)
"The
more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that
redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income
from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of
power from the individual to the State."
Bertrand de
Jouvenel, (1903-1987)
Source: The Ethics of Redistribution [1952] (Indianapolis: Liberty
Press, 1990), p. 72.
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