Beware

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis

Humans

...too many people, and too few human beings.

paraphased from Robert Zend

With Guns

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."

Ronald Reagan

Bigots

It is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we could be wrong.

Modified from G. K. Chesterton's original quote

Could Be

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.

Ecclesiastes 10:2

It's no accident that the conservatives are called the right.

Problem Solving

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

What You Don't Know

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Confucius

Maybe

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Bertrand Russell (1951)

Insanity

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla

Strange

"Strange is our situation here upon earth.  Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose.  From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.  Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

Albert Einstein

Perspective

Remember, some people are alive simply because it's illegal to shoot them.

Anonymous

No Change

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Theodore Roosevelt