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NastyRiffraff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:09 AM
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Some quotes I think are appropriate
We the people are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln

When spider webs unite, they can halt even a lion.
Old African proverb

The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
John Stuart Mill

He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus Darwin

Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or convenience was at stake.
Joan Gilbert

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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pamela Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:26 AM
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1. Wow, thanks for these.
Two of my all time favorites...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

I was trying to think of them yesterday so this is great, thanks.

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