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Don't spit in a well. You might want to drink from it. -Scottish ProverbHindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented. -UnknownTo know the road ahead, ask those coming back. -Chinese ProverbDo not cut down the tree that gives you shade. -Arab ProverbLife appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. -Charlotte BronteForgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -Paul BoeseTo discover, explore and invent solutions to problems. We do not believe in . .. the continuance of economic dependence for millions of our citizens upon government . . . we stand for a free America--an America of opportunity created by the enterprise and imagination of its citizens. -Wendell WillkieA human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between goodand evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange -- meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State. -AnthonyBurgess

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -Abraham LincolnYou can't enjoy true freedom without limits . . . Life without limits results inanarchy and misery. -Tom Landry

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free. -Abraham LincolnThe oldest democracy in the world (America). -Robert F. Kennedy, April 1, 1963

When we have learned to reverence liberty as well as wealth, we, too, shall havepower--renaissance. -John DeweyFreedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. -John F. KennedyLasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. -John F. KennedyMan was born free, and everywhere he is in chains. -Jean Jacques RousseauWe have confused the free with the free and easy. -Adlai StevensonThose who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. -Abraham LincolnAnd who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created fr

ee by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are toldto deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid o

f whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state. -Galileo GalileiBefore all else, be armed. -Niccolo MachiavelliLiberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and,therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

-Lord ActonI recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. -Viktor E. FranklFreedom is the best antidote to terrorism. -Dick CheneyEvery man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but hims

elf. -John LockeOur life is made by the death of others. -Leonardo Da VinciFreedom is the right to work a decent length of time and to get a decent livingfor doing so; to be able to arrange the little personal details of one's own life. It is the aggregate of these and many other items of freedom which makes up the great idealistic Freedom. The minor forms of Freedom lubricate the everyday life of all of us. -Henry FordIn unity is American strength--and freedom. -Henry FordLiberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. -James Madison

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My Father, as I pause this day to think of the brave men and women who have given their lives for the sake of others, may I be thankful for them. -Margaret Bird SteinmetzThe cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. -W.E.B. Du BoisThe wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is wiling, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. -AristotleCan we not call it plain old-fashioned selfishness if we ignore the possibilityof responsibility to others and to God as the road to freedom? -Elisabeth ElliotSir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.--Samuel JohnsonA friend is an ear. -Francis BaconAssociate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. -George WashingtonWe are interested in others when they are interested in us. -Publius SyrusTell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. -Miguel de CervantesMy friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. -Ibn GabirolGenerosity is the core of building relationships. -Keith FerrazziTwo lovely berries moulded on one stem;So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.--William Shakespeare

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the mostbrilliant wit, the profoundest thinker. -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Be courteous to all, intimate with few, for true friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -George WashingtonA hedge between keeps friendship green. -German proverbThere is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others,they will live for you. -Paramahansa YoganandaWhat is dignity . . . what is appearance, if it keeps us from talking together?

-Ray Hill