The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken
"The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. Aristotle
What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. Buddha
Veni, vidi, vici.” I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. Heraclitus
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. John Locke
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. Confucius
The earth belongs to the living; the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. Thomas Jefferson
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu |
