Choices

"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." - Thomas Jefferson ...

“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes, you get what you need”      - Rolling Stones ...

"There is no inevitability in history except as men make it." - Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter ...

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”         - Aldous Huxley ...

"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little." - Thomas Merton ...

"Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it." - Alan Watts ...

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein ...

Our thoughts become our actions, and our actions become habits. Our habits then become the kind of person we are, and the kind of person you are decides the kind of life you choose to live." ...

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not ...

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” - Eleanore Roosevelt ...