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• We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
  -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), (from his Inaugural Address)...
• For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801...
• Perhaps myself the first, at some expence of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist.
  Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischevous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite....
• With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change,--all please alike.
  Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest bird...
• Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 2...
• Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
  -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)...
• And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
  -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961...
• Grow up?!? Mark Livingston never finished his _first_ childhood. :-)
• Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike
  that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage -- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed....