Notices by Blaise Pascal (blaisepascal@freeatlantis.com)

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

~ Andre Gide
(1869-1951) French writer

https://libertytree.ca/quotes/Robert.Heinlein.Quote.6D66

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

-- Robert A. Heinlein
(1907-1988) American writer

https://libertytree.ca/quotes/Bertrand.Russell.Quote.7A72

"Envy is the basis of Democracy."

-- Bertrand Russell
[Bertrand Arthur William Russell] (1872-1970) Philosopher, educator
Source: The Conquest of Happiness, VI, 1930

http://libertytree.ca/quotes/E..M..Forster.Quote.F79C
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”

~ E. M. Forster
(1879-1970) English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist
Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Warren.Burger.Quote.8F45
“There can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right” and the Amish or others like them are “wrong.” A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.”

~ Justice Warren E. Burger
(1907-1995) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1969-1986)
Wisconsin v. Yoder, 15 May 1972

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"Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind."

-- Henry Grady Weaver
(1889-1949) American author, General Motors marketing executive who made the cover of Time in 1938

This is our biggest need, from the individual to global societies.

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“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

~ Aesop
(c. 550 B.C.) legendary Greek fabulist
The Lion and the Mouse

http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Walter.Judd.Quote.7264

“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote -- a very different thing.”

~ Walter H. Judd
(1898-1994) Minnesota legislator, physician, missionary, and orator

http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Neal.Boortz.Quote.C9D7

“Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back?  Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?”

~ Neal Boortz
(1945- ) Radio talk show host, columnist
http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2008/12/and-the-states-come-begging-as.html

Saving faith affects all we do and say.

Only Him. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.