July 7th 2010
- Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
- The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
James Reston quotes (Scottish Journalist, 1909-1995)
Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776
July 5th, 2010
- Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?
Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776
“Common sense is not so Common.” Voltaire quotes July 1, 2010“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.
