Quotations

[N_Jay]

I have started the habit of when using a notable quotation, I look it up.
My original thought was I should make sure I am quoting it correctly.

Now, I do it just to see what else I find.

While looking up; "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.", I found it to be more correctly quoted as
"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
and,
“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

But I also found:

“[History is] not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”

"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought."

"Socialism means slavery."

[poltergeisty]

"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate. They tell us we're always "against," never "for" anything."

Modern History Sourcebook: Ronald Reagan: Time for Choosing Speech, 1964

[poltergeisty]

http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~...urgot/reflecti

Oops. Taken from here. Internet Modern History Sourcebook: French Revolution

I'm constantly reminded everyday that bread is being fought over...