Thursday, January 20, 2005
“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 – 1963), American Democratic President: Inaugural address, January 20, 1961.
“Still one thing more, fellow citizens – a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826), American Democratic President: First Inaugural address, March 4, 1801.
“The least considerable man among us has an interest equal to the proudest nobleman, in the laws and constitution of this country, and is equally called upon to make a generous contribution in support of them – whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.”
- Junius (1769 - 1771), Pseudonymous political correspondent: letter no. 37, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser, March 19, 1770, reprinted in “The Letters of Junius”, 1772.
“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
- Rosa Luxemburg (1871 – 1919), German revolutionary: “The Russian Revolution”,
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 – 1963), American Democratic President: Inaugural address, January 20, 1961.
“Still one thing more, fellow citizens – a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826), American Democratic President: First Inaugural address, March 4, 1801.
“The least considerable man among us has an interest equal to the proudest nobleman, in the laws and constitution of this country, and is equally called upon to make a generous contribution in support of them – whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.”
- Junius (1769 - 1771), Pseudonymous political correspondent: letter no. 37, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser, March 19, 1770, reprinted in “The Letters of Junius”, 1772.
“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
- Rosa Luxemburg (1871 – 1919), German revolutionary: “The Russian Revolution”,
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