Quotes of the day from previous years:
He could not be captured,
He could not be bought,
His running was rhythm,
His standing was thought;
With one eye on sorrow
And one eye on mirth,
He galloped in heaven
And gambolled on earth
And only the poet
With wings to his brain
Can mount him and ride him
Without any rein,
The stallion of heaven,
The steed of the skies,
The horse of the singer
Who sings as he flies.
~Eleanor Farjeon ~
| Inlove there are no penalties and no payments, and what isgiven is indistinguishable from what is received. |
| ~Eleanor Farjeon ~ |
| Mine is thesunlight, Mine is themorning Born of the onelight Eden saw play. Praise with elation, Praise every morning, God's re-creation Of the new day! |
| ~Eleanor Farjeon ~ |
| Nolove-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as theworld on its firstmorning. |
| ~Eleanor Farjeon ~ |
| The priceless heritage of oursociety is the unrestricted constitutionalright of each member to think as he will.Thoughtcontrol is acopyright oftotalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of thegovernment to keep thecitizen from falling intoerror; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. We could justify anycensorship only when the censors are better shielded against error than the censored. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| If there is any fixedstar in ourconstitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty,can prescribe what shall be orthodox inpolitics,nationalism,religion, or other matters ofopinion, orforcecitizens toconfess byword oract theirfaith therein. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| If we can cultivate in theworld theidea thataggressivewar-making is the way to theprisoner's dock rather than the way tohonors, we will haveaccomplished something toward making thepeace more secure. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| Theworld neverknows, and cannot for thelife of itimagine, what thisman sees in thatmaid and that maid in this man. The world cannot think why they fell inlove with each other. But they have theirreason, theirbeautifulsecret, that never gets told to more than one person; and what they see in each other is what they show to each other; and it is thetruth. Only they kept ithidden in theirhearts until the time came. |
| ~Eleanor Farjeon ~ |
| Lying has always been a highly approvedNazitechnique.Hitler, inMein Kampf, advocatedmendacity as apolicy. … Nor is the lie direct the only means offalsehood. They all speak with a Nazi double meaning with which todeceive the unwary. … Before weaccept theirword at what seems to be its face value, we must always look for hiddenmeanings. … Besides outright false statements and those with double meanings, there are also other circumventions oftruth in the nature of fantastic explanations and absurd professions. … EvenSchacht showed that he, too, had adopted the Naziattitude thattruth is anystory whichsucceeds. Confronted on cross-examination with a long record of broken vows and false words, he declared in justification — and Iquote from the record: "I think you can score many more successes when you want to lead someone if you don't tell them the truth than if you tell them the truth." This was thephilosophy of the National Socialists. When for years they have deceived theworld, and masked falsehood with plausibilities, can anyone be surprised that they continue that habit of a lifetime in this dock?Credibility is one of the main issues of this trial. Only those who havefailed tolearn the bitter lessons of the last decade can doubt that men who have always played on the unsuspectingcredulity ofgenerous opponents would not hesitate to do the samenow. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| Thewrongs which we seek tocondemn andpunish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, thatcivilization cannottolerate their beingignored, because it cannotsurvive their being repeated. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| Men are more oftenbribed by theirloyalties andambitions than bymoney. |
| ~George Meredith ~ |
| When we went to school we were told that we weregoverned bylaws, not men. As a result of that, manypeople think there is no need to pay anyattention to judicial candidates becausejudges merely apply the law by some mathematical formula and a good judge and a bad judge all apply the same kind of law. Thefact is that the mostimportant part of a judge's work is the exercise ofjudgment and that the law in a court is never better than thecommon sense judgment of the judge that is presiding. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| We must not forget that in our country are evangelists and zealots of many differentpolitical,economic andreligious persuasions whosefanaticalconviction is that allthought is divinely classified into two kinds — that which is their own and that which isfalse anddangerous. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| Don't give up. Youknow it's never been easy. Don't give up. 'Cause Ibelieve there's a place, There's a place where we belong. |
| ~Peter Gabriel ~ |
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Sweet the rain's new fall,
Sunlit from heaven,
Like the first dewfall
On the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness
Of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness
Where his feet pass.
~Eleanor Farjeon ~
Dropt tears have hastened your decay
And brought you one step nigher death;
And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved,
The music of Love's golden breath
And seen the light in eyes that loved.
You think you hold the core and kernel
Of all the world beneath your crust,
Old dial? But when you lie in dust,
This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved.
Love is eternal.
~Eleanor Farjeon ~
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ~Robert H. Jackson (born 1892 February 13)
We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority. ~Robert H. Jackson (born 1892 February 13)
If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification. ~William Shockley (born 1910 February 13)
| Civil liberties had their origin and must find their ultimate guaranty in the faith of the people. If that faith should be lost, five or nine men in Washington could not long supply its want. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| Juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion — except for the sect that can win political power. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar. |
| ~Robert H. Jackson ~ |
| Rest your head. You worry too much. It's going to be alright. When times get rough, You can fall back on us. Don't give up; Please don't give up. |
| ~Peter Gabriel ~ |