"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Thinking Quotes #May Quotes #Censorship Quotes

“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.”
“The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.”
“This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.”

Source : "Selected Essays by Ahad Ha'am". Book by Ahad Ha'am, 2005.
“The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.”
“The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.”
“Thereâ€™s always gonna be be someone better looking, thereâ€™s always gonna be someone smarter, thereâ€™s always gonna be someone who works harder. What you have to offer is yourself, so donâ€™t lose it, focus on it and try to bring it out”
“So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes.”
“I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.”

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