"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."

-- Louis D. Brandeis

#Government Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.”
“Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.”
“Love is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together.”
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
“The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'”
“I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field.”
“I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . .”
“I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me.”

Source : Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.6, Penguin

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