FREEDOM

Freedom consists not in doing what we like,
but in having the right to do what we ought.

……Pope John Paul II

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed;
It must be achieved.

…….Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men;
So it must be daily earned and refreshed;
else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

……Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who deny freedom to others,

deserve it not for themselves.

…….Abraham Lincoln

There are two freedoms:
- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes;
-the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

……..Charles Kingsley

We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.

…….William Faulkner

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

……..Joseph Addison

What then is Freedom?
- The power to live as one wishes.

........Marcus Tullius Cicero

Without Freedom, no one really has a name.

…….Milton Acorda

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

……Nietzsche

Freedom is not worth having;
if it does not include the Freedom to make mistakes.

………Mahatma Gandhi

The Freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

…….Friedrich Durrenmatt

We cannot defend Freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

…….Edward R. Murrow

When freedom does not have a purpose,
when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law
engraved in the hearts of men and women,
when it does not listen to the voice of conscience,
it turns against humanity and society.

……Pope John Paul II

INSULTS

When Insults Had Class
These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to
4-letter words.

She said:

"If you were my husband I'd give you poison."
He said:

"If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
……..Exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor

"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
…..Member of Parliament (to Disraeli)

"That depends Sir, whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
……. Disraeli

"He had delusions of adequacy."
….. Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike;
and none of the vices I admire."
….. Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man;
but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure…
…. Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word
that might send a reader to the dictionary."
…….William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book;
I'll waste no time reading it."
…… Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral,
but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
…… Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
……Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;
bring a friend.... if you have one."
…….George Bernard Shaw (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second;
.... if there is one."
……..Winston Churchill, (in response).

"I feel so miserable without you;
it's almost like having you here."
……..Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
……John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness.
Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
……Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself;
he is the cause of dullness in others."
…… Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
….. Paul Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt,
she always yielded easily."
……. Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
…… Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope,
… without any address on it?"
……. Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away;
…… and kept the stork."
…….. Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others, whenever they go.."
…….. Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts;
for support rather than illumination."
……. Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
……. Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.
……. But this wasn't it."
…… Groucho Marx