Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-12-11 Dec 11, 2008Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.~ Henry David ThoreauThose are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.~ Groucho MarxI never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.~ Harry S. TrumanIf you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.~ Mark Twain Dec 10, 2008If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.~ Rabindrnath TagoreMinds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.~ Sir James DewarNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.~ Titus Maccius Plautus Dec 9, 2008He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.~ Charles PeguyThe people’s right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes that they may desire to cast, for they are entitled to an active role in shaping every fundamental decision of state.~ Edmond CahnWherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at.~ George Savile Dec 8, 2008It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.~ Luther BurbankThe skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found.~ Miguel de Unamuno y JugoHe who dares not offend cannot be honest.~ Thomas Paine Dec 5, 2008In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.~ Oscar CallawayThere is a de facto “secret government” operating nationally and internationally and involved in the highest circles of the U.S. government, exercising an impact over domestic policies and economics ranging between extreme influence to, at times, outright control. This extreme influence to outright control naturally includes the Presidency. The de facto “secret government,” much of whose intellectual—and financial—muscle are to be found in the New York office of the CFR, the great tax-free foundations, and certain international firms and corporations.~ Mike CulbertBut we’re not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we’re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.~ Ramsey Clark Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print