Query Quotations:

"(...) these remarkable differences in the state of different portions of the human race (...) depend on causes. And it is not a sufficient explanation to ascribe them exclusively to the degrees of knowledge, possessed at different times and places, of the laws of nature and the physical arts of life. Many other causes co-operate; and that very progress and unequal distribution of physical knowledge, are partly the effects, as well as partly the causes, of the production and distribution of wealth."

John Stuart Mill

"The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

ROOSEVELT, Theodore

"The business of America is business."

COOLIDGE, Calvin

"Money is a Veil"

PIGOU

"Let me have my farm, family and goose quill, and all the honors and offices this world has to bestow may go to those who deserve them better and desire them more. I court them not."

ADAMS, John

"Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty."

HAYES, Rutherford B.

"I am an advocate of paper money, but that paper must represent what it professes on its face. I do not wish to hold in my hands the printed lies of the government."

"The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and selfconfidence."

KUNDERA, Milan

"As to the Presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."

"At a time like this you must be careful to have someone comfort you almost more than you need at least once. Otherwise you'll find yourself helpless when the time comes to summon up your courage and break away from chaos."

OE, Kensaburo

"Threatened already by India's superior strength in conventional weapons, Pakistan built the bomb because India did. (...) nuclear fission can be reserved by political will."

"He broke off in confusion, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his clothes hanging from him as if from a peg in the closet."

"Did you ever wake up in the mornin' with a zombie wolve behind your eyes?"

"I haven't read any of his books. I don't want to read books and spoil my thinking."

"Estrid Dane was one of the glories of British medical science (in Calcutta, author's note)."

"Let's Roll. The song is Young's response to the World Trade Center attacks, the title coming from the reported call-to-arms of the passengers who brought down the plane targeted for the White House.

In fact, ARE YOU PASSIONATE? is full of many more impressive tunes, not the least of which being Going Home, which recalls Young/Crazy Horse's '70s work, the 3/4-time Otis Redding-style love ballad When I Hold You in My Arms, and Two Old Friends, perhaps the most striking tune, whose plea for tolerance rings truer and more open-hearted than Let's Roll...."

"Did you ever wake up in the mornin' with a zombie wolve behind your eyes?"

"Parmenides posed this very question in the sixth century before Christ. He saw the world divided into pairs of opposites: light / darkness, fineness / coarseness, warmth / cold, being / non-being. One half of the opposition he called positive (light, fineness, warmth, being), the other negative."

"A field is an instrument, because it is a means to the attainment of corn. Corn is an instrument, because it is a means to the attainment of flour. Flour is an instrument, being a means to the attainment of bread. Bread is an instrument, as a means to the satisfaction of hunger and to the support of life."

"These deeds must not be thought after these ways, so it will make us mad."

OE, Kensaburo

"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."

WASHINGTON, George

"You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength."

PIERCE, Franklin

"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my damn friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor nights."

"Threatened already by India's superior strength in conventional weapons, Pakistan built the bomb because India did. (...) nuclear fission can be reserved by political will."

ECONOMIST, THE

"The government is best that governs least."

JEFFERSON, Thomas

"Every word [of the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty."

MADISON, James

"The American continents . . . are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers."

MONROE, James

"Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race."

"No President who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure."

POLK, James K.

"The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress."

TAYLOR, Zachary

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."

LINCOLN, Abraham

"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."

JOHNSON, Andrew

"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."

"If you're going to conquere your fear, Bird, you'll have to isolate it by defining its object precisely."

"...wasn't Viswakarma god of the workers first and foremost, before he was god of the owners? Even if sometimes he did give us the impression that he had forgotten to oil the wheel of the Karma! Viswakarma ki jai!"

LAPIERRE, Dominique

"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate."

"There is nothing as arrogant and shitty as having sex with somebody and then feeling sorry for yourself."

"Separate, but equal."

BOOKER, T. Washington

"Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of the community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation."

ADAMS, John Quincy

"The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government."

"Sleeping, that baby's first defense oframa strange new world."

GORDON, Neil

"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory."

FILLMORE, Millard

"Prevent the American people from crossing the Rocky Mountains? You might as well command Niagara not to flow. We must fulfill our destiny."

BUCHANAN, James

"Good ballplayers make good citizens."

"(...) could there really be such a thing as a hydrogen bomb that was not harmful to man and beasts?"