“… No serious evils, no rankling sore in the body politic, can remain long concealed, and when disclosed, it is half destroyed.”
James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (1888).
“Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts, to covet nothing that is your neighbour’s except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and to spend as much time as you can with body and with spirit.“
Henry Van Dyke (1904).
“I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul,
Cat Stevens, “The Wind” (1971).
Where I’ll end up, well, I think only God really knows;
I’ve sat upon the setting sun,
But never, never, never, never,
I never wanted water once,
No never, never, never, never.”
“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable.
Marvin Heemeyer, “The Killdozer” (2004).
Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
“If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore, what he must be taught to fear is his victim.”
Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, U.S.M.C.
“Happier than ever.”
Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish (2021).
“But I will live on in what I leave behind.”
ROM Immortal, Directed by Mark Zibert. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (2022).
“Some men, unafraid, fight back with mere whistles, trumpeting:
Not today; I refuse to believe that law, government, and order are dead.”
Kimberly Earle, X (October 16, 2024).
Sunlight Disinfects 