All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police sh ould force consumers

to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously. Ludwig von Mises Government is the only institution that can take a perfectly good piece of paper , print some noble words on it, and make it perfectly worthless. - Ludwig von Mi ses "This time, it's different" are the four most expensive words in the English Lan guage. - Ludwig von Mises Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. - Ludwig von Mises Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement , but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought. - Ludwig von M ises Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate d escription of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life. - Ludwig von Mises "All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fig ht capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the pro ducts it turns out." - Ludwing von mises "It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious ness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines." - Ludwig von Mises "The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek poli s down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders." - Ludwig von Mises "The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general ado ption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism." - Ludwig von Mises "What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unhe ard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting n ew values and ideas for old ones." - Ludwig von Mises "The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air." - Ludwig von Mises "Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the inter ests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow..." - Ludwig von Mises "The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashio n which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of li ving, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the pu blic. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of

progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the compara tively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimat e ideal of civilized life." - Ludwig von Mises "The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state." - Ludwig von Mises

"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone." - Frederic Bastiat "Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference - the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the eff ects which are seen, and also of those which it is necessary to foresee." - Fred eric Bastiat "It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder." - Frederic Bastiat "But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law ta kes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to who m it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of anot her by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." - F rederic Bastiat "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distincti on between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say tha t we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socia lists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equalit y. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do no t want the state to raise grain." - Frederic Bastiat "If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit p eople to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always g ood? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?" - Frederic Bastiat "When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will." - Frederic Bastiat

"I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out." - John Locke

"If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute l ord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom?" - John Locke

"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subject s while remaining in this state of ignorance." - Murray Rothbard "Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local." - Murray Rothbar d "All government wars are unjust." - Murray Rothbard "I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coerc ive aggression against the person or property of any individual." - Murray Rothb ard "It is bad enough to sell out; it is far worse to be a two-bit whore" - Murray R othbard

"It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend h imself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs" - Aristotle "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends" - Aristotle "The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or l earned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things and that means having exalted notions. The y would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning.... All their mistakes are in the direc tion of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything; they lo ve too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else." - Aristotle "It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated whe n addressing popular audiences." - Aristotle

"When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for nei ther of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows some thing, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know." - Socrates

"Nations are made not of oak and rock but of men, and, as the men are, so will t he nations be." - Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free

"With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qua lified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal an d unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." - James M adison

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, des erve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

"We have been told of phantoms and ideal dangers to lead us into measures which will, in my opinion, be the ruin of our country." - AntiFederalist Paper #2 "It is a certainty, that when the union was the subject of debate in the Scottis h legislature, some of their most sensible and disinterested nobles, as well as commoners! (who were not corrupted by English gold), violently opposed the union , and predicted that the people of Scotland would, in fact, derive no advantages from a consolidation of government with England; but, on the contrary, they wou ld bear a great proportion of her debt, and furnish large bodies of men to assis t in her wars with France, with whom, before the union, Scotland was at all time s on terms of the most cordial amity." - AntiFederalist Paper #5 "A state of anarchy from its very nature can never be of long continuance; the g reater its violence the shorter the duration. Order and security are immediately sought by the distracted people beneath the shelter of equal laws and the salut ary restraints of regular government; and if this be not attainable, absolute po wer is assumed by the one, or a few, who shall be the most enterprising and succ essful. If anarchy, therefore, were the inevitable consequence of rejecting the new Constitution, it would be infinitely better to incur it, for even then there would be at least the chance of a good government rising out of licentiousness. " The other specter that has been raised to terrify and alarm the people out of th e exercise of their judgment on this great occasion, is te dread of our splittin g into separate confederacies or republics, that might become rival powers and c onsequently liable to mutual wars from the usual motives of contention. This is an event still more improbable than the foregoing. It is a presumption unwarrant ed, either by the situation of affairs, or the sentiments of the people; no disp osition leading to it exists; the advocates of the new constitution seem to view such a separation with horror, and its opponents are strenuously contending for a confederation that shall embrace all America under its comprehensive and salu tary protection. This hobgoblin appears to have sprung from the deranged brain o f Publius, [The Federalist] a New York writer, who, mistaking sound for argument , has with Herculean labor accumulated myriads of unmeaning sentences, and mecha nically endeavored to force conviction by a torrent of misplaced words.

As passing clouds obscure for a time the splendor of the sun, so do wars interru pt the welfare of mankind; but despotism s a settled gloom that totally extingui shes happiness.

Every way of man is right in his own eyes. The lord ponders the heart. -Proverbs 21

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothin g is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated de relicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has s olved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever h onored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." - Calv in Coolidge "Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to be long to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody." - Calv in Coolidge

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and mo netary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tom orrow morning. - Henry Ford If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - H enry Ford A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think t hat the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift t ogether and pull together. - Henry Ford

I always believe that the easy way is the right way. - Bruce Lee

I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our libertie s than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the bank s and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. - Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force ma y destroy, but cannot disjoin them. - Thomas Jefferson (Summary View of the Rig hts of British America (1774)) "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own gover nment; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they ma y be relied on to set them to rights." - Thomas Jefferson But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

"You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out." (* Sai d of the Second Bank of the United States) - Andrew Jackson "As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is re gulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending." - Andrew Jackson "It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of gov ernment to their selfish purposes." - Andrew Jackson "There If it shower be an are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would unqualified blessing." - Andrew Jackson

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it. - Andrew Jack son Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled t o obtain it on equable and lasting terms. - Andrew Jackson

"So, in sum: government of the great majority of popular masses by a privilege d minority. But this minority will be composed of workers, say the Marxists .... Of former workers, perhaps, but just as soon as they become representatives or rulers of the people they will cease to be workers . ... And they'll start lo oking down on all ordinary workers from the heights of the state: they will n ow represent not the people but themselves and their claims to govern the peop le." - Mikhail Bakunin "The question arises, if the proletariat is ruling, over whom will it rule? ... If there exists a state, there is inevitably domination [and] slavery .... What does it mean for the proletariat to be "organized as the ruling class"? ... Can it really be that the entire proletariat will stand at the head of the administr ation? . . . There are about forty million Germans. Will all forty millions real ly be members of the government? ... The entire nation will be governors and the re will be no governed ones .... Then there will be no government, no state, but if there is a state, there will be governors and slaves .... So, in sum: govern ment of the great majority of popular masses by a privileged minority. But this minority will be composed of workers, say the Marxists .... Of former workers, p erhaps, but just as soon as they become representatives or rulers of the people

they will cease to be workers. And they'll start looking down on all ordinary wo rkers from the heights of the state: they will now represent not the people but themselves and their claims to govern the people. He who doubts this simply does n't know human nature .... They say that such a state yoke, a dictatorship, is a necessary transitional means for attaining the most complete popular liberation . So, to liberate the masses of the people they first have to be enslaved .... T hey maintain that only a dictatorship, their own naturally, can create the people's will; we answer: no dictatorship ca n have any other aim than to perpetuate itself, and it can only give rise to and instill slavery in the people that tolerates it ... " - Mikhail Bakunin

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another , 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

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem t hose who think alike than those who think differently." - Friedrich Nietzsche "I am convinced that art represents the highest task and the truly metaphysical activity of this life." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dre ams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, an d he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets li fe, out of these processes that he trains himself for life." - Friedrich Nietzsc he "Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut righ t next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist. And he requir es shelter, for there are frightful powers which continuously break in upon him, powers which oppose scientific "truth" with completely different kinds of "trut hs" which bear on their shields the most varied sorts of emblems." - Friedrich N ietzsche "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not lear ned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." - Friedri ch Nietzsche "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." - Friedrich Nietzsche "We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the

tone in which it is expressed. " - Friedrich Nietzsche "The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for th e first time several times. " - Friedrich Nietzsche "With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe the ir power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in thems elves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those wh o surround them." - Friedrich Nietzsche "In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up highe r tomorrow." - Friedrich Nietzsche "People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know tha t there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed..." - Friedrich Nietzsche "A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Mystical explanations are considered deep; the truth is, they are not even shal low." - Friedrich Nietzsche "The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings iedrich Nietzsche always darker, emptier, simpler." - Fr

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberatel y with faulty arguments." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Those who deny chance. 'No victor believes in chance.'" - Friedrich Nietzsche No longer being ashamed in front of oneself." -

"What is the seal of liberation? Friedrich Nietzsche

"You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shi ne?" - Friedrich Nietzsche "Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea to be able to receive a pol luted stream without becoming unclean." - Friedrich Nietzsche "I tell you: one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancin g star." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and lo ves only a warrior." - Friedrich Nietzsche "The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones r oots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep into evil." - Friedri ch Nietzsche "The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous toy." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangman and the bloodh ound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Veril y, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had power." Friedrich Nietzsche "Whence come the highest mountains? I once asked. Then I learned that they came out of the sea. The evidence is written in their rocks and in the walls of their peaks. It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height. " - Friedrich Nietzsche "Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and we apons, our spirit and forces us to be strong ..." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The tactical result of an engagement forms the base for new strategic decisions because victory or defeat in a battle changes the situation to such a degree th at no human acumen is able to see beyond the first battle. In this sense one sho uld understand Napoleon's saying: "I have never had a plan of operations." Therefore no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first cont act with the main hostile force." Variant: "No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy." -Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; what would take fire from men because it b urns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, excep t destruction." - Cesare Beccaria

~~~~~~~~~Havamal A man shall not boast | of his keenness of mind, But keep it close in his breast; To the silent and wise | does ill come seldom When he goes as guest to a house; (For a faster friend | one never finds Than wisdom tried and true.) A better burden | may no For wanderings wide than It is better than wealth And in grief a refuge it man bear wisdom; | on unknown ways, gives.

The son of a king | shall be silent and wise, And bold in battle as well; Bravely and gladly | a man shall go, Till the day of his death is come. The sluggard believes | he shall live forever, If the fight he faces not; But age shall not grant him | the gift of peace, Though spears may spare his life.

The fool is agape | when he comes to the feast, He stammers or else is still; But soon if he gets | a drink is it seen What the mind of the man is like. Shun not the mead, | but drink in measure; Speak to the point or be still; For rudeness none | shall rightly blame thee If soon thy bed thou seekest. A paltry man | and poor of mind At all things ever mocks; For never he knows, | what he ought to know, That he is not free from faults. The witless man | is awake all night, Thinking of many things; Care-worn he is | when the morning comes, And his woe is just as it was. A witless man, | when he meets with men, Had best in silence abide; For no one shall find | that nothing he knows, If his mouth is not open too much. (But a man knows not, | if nothing he knows, When his mouth has been open too much.) Oft should one make | an early meal, Nor fasting come to the feast; Else he sits and chews | as if he would choke, And little is able to ask. Crooked and far | is the road to a foe, Though his house on the highway be; But wide and straight | is the way to a friend, Though far away he fare. Forth shall one go, | nor stay as a guest In a single spot forever; Love becomes loathing | if long one sits By the hearth in another's home. Better a house, | though a hut it be, A man is master at home; His heart is bleeding | who needs must beg When food he fain would have. Away from his arms | in the open field A man should fare not a foot; For never he knows | when the need for a spear Shall arise on the distant road. If wealth a man | has won for himself, Let him never suffer in need; Oft he saves for a foe | what he plans for a friend, For much goes worse than we wish. Friends shall gladden each other | with arms and garments, As each for himself can see; Gift-givers' friendships | are longest found,

If fair their fates may be. To his friend a man | a friend shall prove, And gifts with gifts requite; But men shall mocking | with mockery answer, And fraud with falsehood meet. If another thou hast | whom thou hardly wilt trust, Yet good from him wouldst get, Thou shalt speak him fair, | but falsely think, And fraud with falsehood requite. The lives of the brave | and noble are best, Sorrows they seldom feed; But the coward fear | of all things feels, And not gladly the niggard gives. Hotter than fire | between false friends Does friendship five days burn; When the sixth day comes | the fire cools, And ended is all the love. A little sand | has a little sea, And small are the minds of men; Though all men are not | equal in wisdom, Yet half-wise only are all. A measure of wisdom | each But never too much let him For the wise man's heart | If wisdom too great he has man shall have, know; is seldom happy, won.

He must early go forth | who fain the blood Or the goods of another would get; The wolf that lies idle | shall win little meat, Or the sleeping man success. Washed and fed | to the council fare, But care not too much for thy clothes; Let none be ashamed | of his shoes and hose, Less still of the steed he rides, (Though poor be the horse he has.) To question and answer | must all be ready Who wish to be known as wise; Tell one thy thoughts, | but beware of two,-All know what is known to three. All wretched is no man, | though never so sick; Some from their sons have joy, Some win it from kinsmen, | and some from their wealth, And some from worthy works. It is better to live | than to lie a corpse, The live man catches the cow; I saw flames rise | for the rich man's pyre, And before his door he lay dead. The lame rides a horse, | the handless is herdsman, The deaf in battle is bold;

The blind man is better | than one that is burned, No good can come of a corpse. An unwise man, | if a maiden's love Or wealth he chances to win, His pride will wax, but his wisdom never, Straight forward he fares in conceit. Give praise to the day at evening, | to a woman on her pyre, To a weapon which is tried, | to a maid at wed lock, To ice when it is crossed, | to ale that is drunk. A man shall trust not | the oath of a maid, Nor the word a woman speaks; For their hearts on a whirling | wheel were fashioned, And fickle their breasts were formed. Hope not too surely | for early harvest, Nor trust too soon in thy son; The field needs good weather, | the son needs wisdom, And oft is either denied. The love of women | fickle of will Is like starting o'er ice | with a steed unshod, A two-year-old restive | and little tamed, Or steering a rudderless | ship in a storm, Or, lame, hunting reindeer | on slippery rocks. Clear now will I speak, | for I know them both, Men false to women are found; When fairest we speak, | then falsest we think, Against wisdom we work with deceit. Fault for loving | let no man find Ever with any other; Oft the wise are fettered, | where fools go free, By beauty that breeds desire. The head alone knows | what dwells near the heart, A man knows his mind alone; No sickness is worse | to one who is wise Than to lack the longed-for joy. If you know a friend you can fully trust, Go often to his house Grass and brambles grow quickly Upon the untrodden track. Cherish those near you, never be The first to break with a friend: Care eats him who can no longer Open his heart to another. If aware that another is wicked, say so: Make no truce or treaty with foes. A shoemaker be, | or a maker of shafts, For only thy single self; If the shoe is ill made, | or the shaft prove false, Then evil of thee men think.

Look not up | when the battle is on,-(Like madmen the sons | of men become,--) Lest men bewitch thy wits. If thou fain wouldst win | a woman's love, And gladness get from her, Fair be thy promise | and well fulfilled; None loathes what good he gets. I rede thee, Loddfafnir! | and hear thou my rede,Profit thou hast if thou hearest, Great thy gain if thou learnest: Scorn or mocking | ne'er shalt thou make Of a guest or a journey-goer. The The The The sitters in the hall seldom know kin of the new-comer: best man is marred by faults, worst is not without worth.

Oft scarcely he knows | who sits in the house What kind is the man who comes; None so good is found | that faults he has not, Nor so wicked that nought he is worth. Strong is the beam | that raised must be To give an entrance to all; Give it a ring, | or grim will be The wish it would work on thee. (This stanza suggests the dangers of too much hospitality. The beam (bolt) which is ever being raised to admit guests be comes weak thereby. It needs a ring to help it in keeping the door closed, and without the ability at times to ward off guests a man becomes the victim of his own generosity.) The first charm I know is unknown to rulers Or any of human kind; Help it is named, for help it can give In hours of sorrow and anguish. Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die, -fair fame of one who has earned. Cattle die, | and kinsmen die, And so one dies one's self; But a noble name | will never die, If good renown one gets. (One thing now | that never dies, The fame of a dead man's deeds.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"I like girls, music is just a hobby" - Lemmy "Real music doesn't come from trying, it comes from putting down what you got" -

Lemmy "I will not be betrammeled by a mere airline attendant" - Lemmy "I know who you are, you cunt"

- You ever been to San Francisco? * If it's alright by you Mr Wade, I'd rather we not talk - So you never been to San Francisco? * No - I knew a girl there. She was the daughter of a Sea-Captain. She had the most b eautiful green eyes. About the greenest eyes I ever saw. Like yours. And I'd sta re deep into them and they'd just change color infront of me. All the colors of the sea. What'd you say your name was again? @ - Alice?

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that , in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make th e thing difficult to attain." - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer "He promised to abstain from smoking, chewing, and profanity as long as he remai ned a member. Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. Tom soon found himself tormented with a desire to drink and swear" - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer "he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And thi s would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is onl y amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passeng er-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the pr ivilege costs them consideralbe money; but if they were offered wages for the se rvice that would turn it into work, then they would resign." - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer "Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town beca use he was idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad - and because all their childr en admired him so, and delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him." - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

Alas, no, said Elrond. We cannot use the Ruling Ring. That we now know too well . It belongs to Sauron and was made by him alone, and is altogether evil. Its st rength, Boromir, is too great for anyone to wield at will, save only those who h ave already a great power of their own. But for them it holds an even deadlier p eril. The very desire of it corrupts the heart. Consider Saruman. If any of the Wise should with this Ring overthrow the Lord of Mordor, using his own arts, he would then set himself on Sauron s throne, and yet another Dark Lord would appear.

And that is another reason why the Ring should be destroyed: as long as it is i n the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. For nothing is evil in the beg inning. Even Sauron was not so. I fear to take the Ring to hide it. I will not t ake the Ring to wield it. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you gi ve it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. -Gandalf "Life is transitory: all light and life departs together." - Tolkien "My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood , meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) or to 'unconstitution al' Monarchy." - Tolkien

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were I have not seen As others saw I could not bring My passions from a common spring From the same source I have not taken My sorrow I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone And all I lov'd I lov'd alone - Edgar Allan Poe They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who s hall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? - Edgar Allan Poe Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it? - Edgar Allan Poe "Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!" - Edgar Allan Poe Thank Heaven! the crisis The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last And the fever called "Living" Is conquered at last. - Edgar Allan Poe

"Watson: Would you think me impertinent if I were to put your theories t o a more severe test?" "Holmes: On the contrary, it would prevent me from taking a second dose of cocaine"

Commander William T. Riker: [about the tenacity of the Rikers] My great-grandfat her once got bitten by a rattlesnake. After three days of intense pain... the sn ake died! Slick (to Starbuck): Listen. It may feel like hell, but sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don' t have one.

Legalize Freedom: Vote Libertarian Keine Gtter oder Knige. Nur Menschen If looks could kill then death would be my name Where is she? Who I close my eyes to see? When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease . But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: Stick to the Devil you know.

And he is gather'd to the kings of thought Who wag'd contention with their time's decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away.

Denn die einen Und die andern Und man siehet Die im Dunkeln

sind im Dunkeln sind im Licht die im Lichte sieht man nicht

Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Nail the Devil to the post, Thrice I strike with holy crook, One for God, one for Wod, And one for Lok!