Quotern

Quotern

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That is not the sort of belief that indicates real faith.

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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

-- Harry S. Truman

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If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

-- Peter Brimelow

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I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

-- Al Hirt

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A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

-- John Woolman

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Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

-- Henry Fielding

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The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

-- Herbert Read

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