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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: March/9

March 9 Quotes of the day from previous years:

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. ~ Sir Thomas Malory
 * 2004 :

"DON'T PANIC" ~ Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy ~
 * 2005 :

 * This is a misattribution. "Don't panic" was taken from Mr Jones the butcher in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army! (comment from IP 195.40.196.21) 11:34, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It is a simple statement, no doubt used by others even before either case, but now is far more famous as used by Douglas Adams as the phrase on the cover of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ~ Kalki 23:15, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, "I'm in favor of privatization," or, "I'm deeply in favor of public ownership." I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (recent death)
 * 2006 :

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… I will be a sham, but not a snob. I will let every man, woman, or child, no matter how greedy or wicked, claim to have a personal relationship with me. In other words, I will be as arbitrary, inconsistent, ignorant, pushy, and common as humans are, and what more have they ever wanted in a god? ~ the "small god"; "The Visitor" (2002) by Sheri S. Tepper (born March 1, 1968)

 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 01:45, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear. ~ Laura Welch Bush (March 1, 2005 speech)

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Barry Michaels

Barry Michaels (born 1952) is an American radio personality.

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 * I'm gonna say that I've had some incredibly unholy thoughts about you.
 * First words of an interview with Dana Delany.

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Halo 3

Halo 3 is a 2007 video game for the XBox 360. It is the third game in the Halo franchise.

Prophet of Truth

 * How could I have known the Parasite would follow?! Undoubtedly this is the Heretics' doing. A final, bitter curse. Clear evidence of treachery long hidden. So far are we along the path, that I must strain to hear the clumsy patter of their feet. Know this, my brothers: They may foul the way with their charred and broken bones, but they will not stop the Journey.

Gravemind

 * Do not be afraid. I am peace; I am salvation.
 * Time has taught me patience! But basking in new freedom, I will know all that I possess!
 * Of course, you came for her... We exist together now. Two corpses in one grave.
 * Do not shoot, but listen! Let me lead you safely to our foe. Only you can halt what he has set in motion.
 * Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness: a father's sins pass to his son.
 * Do I take life or give it? Who is victim, and who is foe?
 * You will show me what she hides, or I shall feast upon your bones!
 * Resignation is my virtue. Like water, I ebb and flow. Defeat is but the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed.
 * [From the Announcement Trailer at E3 2006] I have defied Gods and Demons. I am your shield; I am your sword. I know you: your past, your future. This is the way the world ends.

Dialogue

 * [Opening scene of the game]
 * Cortana: [voice-over against a night sky] They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. [a yellow comet appears in the sky and slowly streaks across the screen] You know me. I did my research. Watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. [a smaller comet breaks off from the main one] Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck. [the smaller comet suddenly plummets down to the earth and crashes off-screen. The scene fades to black] ...Was I wrong?
 * [Fades into Sergeant Johnson and several Marines at the area where the object, the Master Chief, hit the ground.]:
 * Marine 1: This ain't good…
 * Marine 2: Damn. How far did he fall?
 * Marine 3: Two kilometers, easy.
 * Sergeant Johnson: Stay sharp! Corpsman?
 * Corpsman: His armor's locked up. Gel layer could have taken most of the impact…I don't know, Sergeant Major…
 * Sergeant Johnson: [sighs, then pulls out an empty data chip from Master Chief's helmet] Radio for VTOL. Heavy lift gear. We're not leaving him here.
 * Master Chief: [grabs Johnson's shoulder and pulls himself to his feet] Yeah, you're not.
 * Sergeant Johnson: Crazy fool. Why do you always jump?! One of these days, you're gonna land on something as stubborn as you are! And I don't do bits and pieces. [The Master Chief stares at the data chip] Where is she, Chief? Where is Cortana?
 * [The Chief remembers Cortana's last words from Halo 2: "Don't make a girl a promise…if you know you can't keep it."]
 * Master Chief: [putting the data chip back in his helmet] She stayed behind.
 * Sergeant Johnson: Corporal? Make it quick.
 * Corpsman: Sorry, sir. [to Master Chief] Your armor's still in partial lockdown…

 * [There is a brief shimmer in the air before the Arbiter decloaks. Master Chief grabs a pistol and shoves it between the Arbiter's lower mandibles]
 *  Sergeant Johnson: Chief, wait! The Arbiter's with us! Come on, now. We've got enough to worry about without you two trying to kill each other.
 * Arbiter: [snaps threateningly at Master Chief] Were it so easy.[The Master Chief reluctantly lowers the pistol]

 * Brute: [interrogating Reynolds] Tell me its location!
 * Gunnery Sergeant Reynolds: [chuckles] Kiss…my…ass.

 *  Prophet of Truth: You are, all of you, vermin. Cowering in the dirt, thinking…what, I wonder? That you might escape the coming fire? No. Your world will burn until its surface is but glass, and not even your Demon will live to creep, blackened from its hole, to mar the reflection of our passage. The culmination of our Journey, for your destruction, is the will of the gods! And I? I am their instrument!
 *  Sergeant Johnson: Cocky bastard…just loves to run his mouth.
 *  Master Chief: Does he usually mention me?
 *  Keyes: Give the order! We're closing shop!

 * 343 Guilty Spark: [grabbing a small computer that is thought to be Cortana] I must act quickly before your construct suffers any further trauma!
 * Master Chief: [grabbing the computer back] Wait. Leave her alone.
 * 343 Guilty Spark: If we do not take this to a safe location, somewhere I can make repairs--
 * Master Chief: On Halo, you tried to kill Cortana. You tried to kill me.
 * 343 Guilty Spark: Protocol dictated my response! She had the Activation Index. And you were going to destroy my Installation. You did destroy my Installation. Now I have only one function: to help you, Reclaimer, as I always should have done.

 * Rtas 'Vadum: Did you not hear? Your world is doomed. A Flood army, a Gravemind, has you in its sights. You barely survived small contamination.
 *  Lord Hood: And you, Ship Master, just glassed half a continent! Maybe the Flood isn't all I should be worried about.
 * Rtas 'Vadum: One single Flood spore can destroy a species. Were it not for the Arbiter's counsel, I would have glassed your entire planet!
 * Miranda: Sir, with respect, Cortana has a solution--
 * Lord Hood: Cortana? Did you see her condition? How damaged she is? She could be corrupted, for all we know. Her solution could be a Flood trap.

 *  Lord Hood: Earth... is all we have left. Do you trust Cortana that much?
 * Master Chief: Sir. Yes, sir.
 * ' Lord Hood: This is either the best decision you've ever made or the worst. Hell if it is, Chief... I doubt I'll live long enough to find out which.

 *  Gunnery Sergeant Stacker: All armor, form up on the lower doorway! Chief, head upstairs! Have your robot pick that lock!
 * 343 Guilty Spark: I beg your pardon?! I am 343 Guilty Spark, Monitor of Installation 04!
 * Stacker: Yeah, well, you're also our ticket through this wall. So if you don't mind?
 * 343 Guilty Spark: I will gladly aid the Reclaimer's progress.

 * UNSC Pilot: Hey, what gives?
 * 343 Guilty Spark: It seems I've crossed a circuit.
 * UNSC Pilot: Well let me have a look- [Guilty Spark uses a weaker version his sentinel beam on the pilot] Aah!
 * Arbiter: Oracle!
 * UNSC Pilot: Little bastard stung me!
 * 343 Guilty Spark: I did not want you to come to any harm.
 * UNSC Pilot: You've got a funny way of showin' it.

 * [The shield surrounding the Citadel falls. All characters watch as the Shadow of Intent approaches the Ark's Cidatel.]
 * Rtas 'Vadum: Now, Prophet... your end has come.

 * [Miranda Keyes is attempting to rescue Johnson and stop the activation of Halo. She is now surrounded by Brutes.]
 *  Prophet of Truth: You cannot hope to kill them all.
 *  Miranda Keyes: You're right.
 * [She looks at Johnson and slowly aims her gun at him.]
 * Johnson: Do it. Me, then you. [Miranda hesitates] Now! [Suddenly, Miranda is hit from behind by Spiker rounds and falls to the ground, dead.] NO!! [Tries to run towards her, but is restrained by a Brute]
 *  Prophet of Truth: [Drops a Spiker] Your forefathers wisely set aside their compassion, steeled themselves for what needed to be done. I see now why they left you behind. You were weak. And gods must be strong. [Pushes Johnson's hand against the Control panel, activating the firing sequence of the Halo Array.]

 *  Prophet of Truth: Can you see, Arbiter? The moment of salvation is at hand.
 * Arbiter: [grabbing Truth by the throat] It will not last.
 *  Prophet of Truth: Your kind…never believed in the promise of the sacred rings.
 * Gravemind: [speaking through Truth] Lies for the weak. Beacons for the deluded.
 * Arbiter: I will have my revenge on a Prophet—not a plague.
 *  Prophet of Truth: My feet tread the path. I shall become a god!
 * Gravemind: You will be food, nothing more.
 * [The Master Chief walks over to the console and presses a button, stopping the firing sequence.]
 * Prophet of Truth: No!! I...am... Truth! The voice of the Covenant!
 * Arbiter: And so, you must be silenced.
 * [The Arbiter impales the Prophet of Truth, who screams before he dies. The Arbiter then roars in triumph. Suddenly the room shakes and the Gravemind's tentacles appear]
 * Gravemind: [mocking laughter] Now the gate has been unlatched, headstones pushed aside, corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must abide!
 * Arbiter: We trade one villain for another.

 * Cortana: You found me. But so much of me is wrong, out of place, you might be too late.
 *  Master Chief: You know me. When I make a promise…
 * Cortana: [notices the Chief] You...keep it. I do know how to pick 'em.
 * Master Chief: Lucky me. Do you still have it?
 *  Cortana: The Activation Index from the first Halo ring. A little souvenir I held onto, just in case. Got an escape plan?
 *  Master Chief: Thought I'd try shooting my way out. Mix things up a little. [He removes Cortana from the pillar and slides the disk back into his helmet.]
 * Cortana: Just keep your head down. There's two of us in here now, remember? [Reference to Halo: Combat Evolved, when the Chief's shields go out after first getting Cortana]

 * 05 032 Mendicant Bias: [speaking to the Chief through the last terminal] You don't know the contortions I had to go through to follow you here, Reclaimer. I know what you're here for. What position do I take? Will I follow one betrayal with another? You're going to say I'm making a habit of turning on my masters. But the one that destroyed me long ago, in the upper atmosphere of a world far distant from here, was an implement far cruder than I. My weakness was capacity - unintentional though it was! - to choose the Flood. A mistake my makers would not soon forgive. But I want something far different from you, Reclaimer. Atonement. And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I'm not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.

 * Cortana: [Hearing Guilty Spark] Was that the monitor? You didn't tell me he was here. [pause] Well, we are finally doing what he wanted.

 * 343 Guilty Spark: [In a state of hysterics after learning that the Master Chief plans to fire his Halo ring prematurely] Unacceptable! Unacceptable! Absolutely unacceptable! Protocol dictates action! I see now that helping you was wrong! You are the child of my makers. Inheritor of all they left behind. You are Forerunner! But this ring...is mine.

 * Sergeant Johnson: [mortally wounded after Guilty Spark shoots him] Don't - don't let her go. Don't...ever let her go. Send me out... with a bang. [dies]

 * Grunt: [Addressing the Master Chief in IWHBYD easter-egg] Hey, Demon! The Jerk-Store called, and they're all out of you! Poor you; stolen at the age of six and conscripted into the military. Boo-hoo! [looking scared] Okay look, if you let me live, I got the fist of Rukh! [startled yelp] I'll be on the bottom! I'll polish your boots, I'll polish your helmet! [delirous giggle] It's the gas! When I'm on the gas I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

 * Cortana: If we don't make it...
 * Master Chief: We'll make it.
 * Cortana: It's been an honor serving with you, John.

 * ' Lord Hood: I remember how this war started. What your kind did to mine. I can't forgive you…but you have my thanks. For standing with him to the end. [shakes the Arbiter's hand] Hard to believe [Master Chief]'s dead.
 * Arbiter: [glances skyward] Were it so easy. [reference to his first line in Halo 3, as detailed above]

 * Rtas 'Vadum: Things look different now, without the Prophets' lies clouding my vision. I would like to see our world, to know that it is safe.
 * Arbiter: Fear not, for we have made it so.
 * Rtas 'Vadum: By your word, Arbiter.
 * Arbiter: Take us home.

 * Cortana: I'll drop a beacon, but it'll be a while before anyone finds us. Years even. [The Master Chief climbs into a cryogenic freezing tube] I'll miss you.
 *  Master Chief: [as the cryotube closes] Wake me, when you need me.

 * Cortana: But you did it. Truth and the Covenant, the Flood... It's finished.
 * Master Chief: It's finished. (referencing the final lines of Halo: Combat Evolved where Cortana said it was finished and the Chief disagreed)

Halo 3: ODST

 * Buck: Come on, Veronica. What could be more important than that carrier?
 * Dare: My orders. And Buck?  Call me Captain.

 * Romeo: I take it back. Navy got its butt kicked.
 * Buck: Hey, Romeo, remember when I told you to shut your mouth?
 * Romeo: Yeah.
 * Buck: Consider that a standing order.

 * [Dutch has commandeered a vehicle to escape the reserve, but has crashed.]
 * Dutch: Uh, Lord? I didn't train to be a pilot. Tell me I don't have any more flying to do today.
 * [A drone flies in and crashes nearby. The optical unit breaks off and skids away.]
 *  Dutch: So...was that a yes or a no?
 * [Behind him, the vehicle explodes.]
 * Dutch: Amen.

 * Dutch: You heard from Gunny?
 * Mickey: No. Romeo neither.
 * Dutch: Well, guess it's just you and me.
 * Mickey: My vote? Hole up, wait for backup.
 * [The building's blast doors open, revealing a policeman.]
 * Policeman: Thank god! Does one of you know how to use explosives?
 * Dutch: [to Mickey] Your vote? Just got overruled.
 * Mickey: Oh...

 * [The ODSTs have just overwhelmed a Brute Chieftain...which has unceremoniously landed on Buck.]
 * Buck: [muffled] Get—this—thing-off-of-me!

 * Romeo: We went through hell for that? [pointing at the Engineer]
 * Buck: [to the Rookie] Give him some meds, will ya? [to Romeo] It's important. It knows things.
 * Romeo: Hey, Gunny. I wasn't talking about the alien.
 * [He passes out from the meds, while the camera pans over to Veronica]
 * Buck: Mickey, I'm sending you a very special co-pilot.
 * Mickey: [over intercom] Aw, come on! I don't want one of those things up here!
 * Buck: It won't bite. And unlike you, it knows what to tell those cruisers to keep them off our tails.

 * Dutch: Dear Diary: Today I learned some alien scum to not mess with the ODSTs!

 * Dutch: You're going all the way back to Planet Jackass, JACKASS!

 * Dutch: Hey, scumbag! You ever seen Full Metal Jacket?
 * [Note: Dutch is voiced by Adam Baldwin]

 * [Mickey narrowly avoids a Wraith cannon shot, but gets hit in the head with a metal lid]
 * Mickey: Ow! Ah... Son of a gun!

 * Buck: [drawing the Rocket Launcher] Heat in the pipe! That's what she said.

 * Buck: [After killing an enemy with a headshot] "Bam!" said the lady!

 * Dutch: Well, like the good book says: payback's a bitch!
 * Mickey: I don't think it actually says that, Dutch.
 * Dutch: I'm paraphrasin', ya heathen!

 * Buck: [picking up a turret] Let me turret! You suck at it.

 * [Dare has stuck alone in the Superintendent's Data Hive, which is swarming with Yanme'e]
 * Dare: Buck? Who knows if he can hear me but... I'm sorry. I should have told you more about this mission, more... about everything.

 * Dare: Lord Hood may have given you clearance, but it was my op, and it's my interrogation. We only captured one. It's very delicate.
 *  Sergeant Johnson: Don't worry...I know what the aliens are like. Does it have access to the Covenant battle-net?
 * Dare: Limited, but yes. We're not entirely sure how it manages a remote connection to the w- [Johnson throws a lighter to the Huragok, the ODSTs turn in alarm and attempt to interfere.]
 * Buck: Whoa, stand down! Stand down!
 * [The Huragok swiftly catches the lighter.]
 * Dare: Sergeant Major, please! It's extremely flammable!
 * [Johnson walks right up to the Huragok.]
 *  Johnson: The Brutes. The bastards who put bombs on your buddies and killed millions of my people...they're digging a mighty big hole. [Johnson puts a cigar in his mouth.] You're gonna tell me exactly what they're looking for. And then, you're gonna help me stop 'em.
 * [The Huragok lights Johnsons's cigar, showing it's agreement.]

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Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldūn (Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī; May 27, 1332 – March 17, 1406) was an Ifriqiyan (North Africa) Arab Muslim historiographer and historian, regarded to be among the founding fathers of modern sociology, historiography, demography, and economics. He is best known for his book, the Muqaddimah ("Prolegomena").

Quotes

 * Civilization both in the East and the West was visited by a destructive plague which devastated nations and caused populations to vanish. It swallowed up many of the good things of civilization and wiped them out. It overtook the dynasties at the time of their senility, when they had reached the limit of their duration. It lessened their power and curtailed their influence. It weakened their authority. Their situation approached the point of annihilation and dissolution. Civilization decreased with the decrease of mankind. Cities and buildings were laid waste, roads and way signs were obliterated, settlements and mansions became empty, dynasties and tribes grew weak. The entire inhabited world changed. The East, it seems, was similarly visited, though in accordance with and in proportion to [the East's more affluent] civilization. It was as if the voice of existence in the world had called out for oblivion and restriction, and the world responded to its call. God inherits the earth and whomever is upon it.
 * Quoted in Michael W. Dols, The Black Death in the Middle East, Princeton University Press, 1977, p. 67.

 * The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage. Other persons who accept the status of slave do so as a means of attaining high rank, or power, or wealth, as is the case with the Mameluke Turks in the East and with those Franks and Galicians who enter the service of the state [in Spain].
 * As quoted in Bernard Lewis, Race and Color in Islam, Harper and Row, 1970, quote on page 38. The brackets are displayed by Lewis.

 * Indeed, you should not desire to weigh with the intellect the issues of Tawhīd and the Hereafter; the reality of Prophethood; the reality of divine attributes and every other thing beyond the scope of the intellect, for such a desire is futile. An example of this would be a man who has a scale used for weighing gold suddenly desiring to weigh mountains with it! This does not mean that the scale is wrong in its measures; rather, the intellect has a limit it cannot surpass and a boundary it cannot transcend.
 * As quoted in Muḥammad Ramaḍān al-Ramaḍānī, 'The Delusion of Portraying the Aḥadīth as Being Contradictory to the Intellect and Sense Perception'

Muqaddimah (1377)

 * When civilization [population] increases, the available labor again increases. In turn, luxury again increases in correspondence with the increasing profit, and the customs and needs of luxury increase. Crafts are created to obtain luxury products. The value realized from them increases, and, as a result, profits are again multiplied in the town. Production there is thriving even more than before. And so it goes with the second and third increase. All the additional labor serves luxury and wealth, in contrast to the original labor that served the necessity of life.
 * Muqaddimah, 2:272–73 quoted in Weiss (1995) p 30

 * The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.

 * Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.
 * Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 39 and p. 383, Princeton University Press, 1981.

 * Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.
 * Muqaddimah, 2:272–73 quoted in Weiss (1995) p 30

 * Royal authority is a noble and enjoyable position. It comprises all the good things of the world, the pleasures of the body, and the joys of the soul. Therefore, there is, as a rule, great competition for it. It rarely is handed over (voluntarily), but it may be taken away. Thus, discord ensues. It leads to war and fighting, and to attempts to gain superiority.
 * Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 123, Princeton University Press, 1958.

 * (Unlike Muslims), the other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty to them, save only for purposes of defence... They are merely required to establish their religion among their own people. This is why the Israelites after Moses and Joshua remained unconcerned with royal authority for about four hundred years. Their only concern was to establish their religion... The Israelites dispossessed the Canaanites of the land that God had given them as their heritage in Jerusalem and the surrounding region, as it had been explained to them through Moses. The nations of the Philistines, the Canaanites, the Armenians, the Edomites, the Ammonites, and the Moabites fought against them. During that time political leadership was entrusted to the elders among them. The Israelites remained in that condition for about four hundred years. They did not have any royal power and were harassed by attacks from foreign nations. Therefore, they asked God through Samuel, one of their prophets, that he permit them to make someone king over them. Thus, Saul became their king. He defeated the foreign nations and killed Goliath, the ruler of Philistines. After Saul, David became king, and then Solomon. His kingdom flourished and extended to the borders of the land of the Hijaz and further to the borders of Yemen and to the borders of the land of the Byzantines. After Solomon, the tribes split into two dynasties. One of the dysnaties was that of the ten tribes in the region of Nablus, the capital of which is Samaria(Sabastiyah), and the other that of the children of Judah and Benjamin in Jerusalem. Their royal authority had had an uninterrupted duration of a thousand years.
 * Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, pp.183-184, Princeton University Press, 1981.

 * Thus, the founders of grammar were Sîbawayh and, after him, al-Fârisî and Az-Zajjâj. All of them were of non-Arab (Persian) descent. They were brought up in the Arabic language and acquired the knowledge of it through their upbringing and through contact with Arabs. They invented the rules of (grammar) and made it into a discipline (in its own right) for later (generations to use). Most of the ḥadîth scholars who preserved traditions for the Muslims also were Persians, or Persian in language and upbringing, because the discipline was widely cultivated in the 'Irâq and the regions beyond. Furthermore all the scholars who worked in the science of the principles of jurisprudence were Persians. The same applies to speculative theologians and to most Qur'ân commentators. Only the Persians engaged in the task of preserving knowledge and writing systematic scholarly works. Thus, the truth of the following statement by the Prophet becomes apparent: 'If scholarship hung suspended in the highest parts of heaven, the Persians would attain it.'
 * Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, vol. 1, pp. 429-430, Princeton University Press, 1981.

 * All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
 * Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 432, Princeton University Press, 1981.

 * Arabic writing at the beginning of Islam was, therefore, not of the best quality nor of the greatest accuracy and excellence. It was not (even) of medium quality, because the Arabs possessed the savage desert attitude and were not familiar with crafts. One may compare what happened to the orthography of the Qur’an on account of this situation. The men around Muhammad wrote the Qur’an in their own script which, was not of a firmly established, good quality. Most of the letters were in contradiction to the orthography required by persons versed in the craft of writing.... Consequently, (the Qur’anic orthography of the men around Muhammad was followed and became established, and the scholars acquainted with it have called attention to passages where (this is noticeable). No attention should be paid in this connection with those incompetent (scholars) that (the men around Muhammad) knew well the art of writing and that the alleged discrepancies between their writing and the principles of orthography are not discrepancies, as has been alleged, but have a reason. For instance, they explain the addition of the alif in la ‘adhbahannahU "I shall indeed slaughter him" as indication that the slaughtering did not take place ( lA ‘adhbahannahU ). The addition of the ya in bi-ayydin "with hands (power)," they explain as an indication that the divine power is perfect. There are similar things based on nothing but purely arbitrary assumptions. The only reason that caused them to (assume such things) is their belief that (their explanations) would free the men around Muhammad from the suspicion of deficiency, in the sense that they were not able to write well. They think that good writing is perfection. Thus, they do not admit the fact that the men around Muhammad were deficient in writing.
 * Muqqadimah, ibn Khaldun, vol. 2, p. 382

 * It should be known that at the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.
 * Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 355, Princeton University Press, 2020.

 * Religious propaganda gives a dynasty at its beginning another power in addition to that of the group feeling it possessed as the result of the number of its supporters... This happened to the Arabs at the beginning of Islam during the Muslim conquests. The armies of the Muslims at al-Qadisiyah and at the Yarmuk numbered some 30,000 in each case, while the Persian troops at al-Qadisiyah numbered 120,000, and the troops of Heraclius, according to al-Waqidi, 400,000. Neither of the two parties was able to withstand the Arabs, who routed them and seized what they possessed.
 * Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 126, Princeton University Press, 1981.

 * On account of their savage nature, the Bedouins are people who plunder and cause damage. They plunder whatever they are able to lay their hands on without having to fight or to expose themselves to danger. They then retreat to their pastures in the desert. They do not attack or fight except in self-defence. Every stronghold or (locality) that seems difficult to attack, they by-pass in favour of some less difficult (enterprise). Tribes that are protected by inaccessible mountains are safe from their mischief and destructiveness. The Bedouins would not cross hills or undergo hardship and danger in order to get to them. Flat territory, on the other hand, falls victim to their looting and prey to their appetite whenever they (have the opportunity of) gaining power over it. Then they raid, plunder, and attack that territory repeatedly, because it is easily (accessible) to them. Eventually, its inhabitants succumb utterly to the Bedouins and then are pushed around by them in accordance with changes of control and shifts in leadership. Eventually, their civilization is wiped out. God has power over His creatures.
 * Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 118, Princeton University Press, 1981.

About Ibn Khaldun

 * While it is true that many Muslim scholars who composed their works in Arabic, both in the religious and in the intellectual sciences, have been of non-Arab descent, Ibn Khaldūn's use of the term Arab in his history seems to indicate a class of people and not a group. Most scholars believe that, in many instances, Ibn Khaldūn uses the name Arab to mean bedouin. Other scholars, such as Mohamed Chafik, deny this.
 * Bernard Lewis, The Arabs in History pp. 14-16 (1950)

 * Why should you read a book on economic growth? Because the subject is important: it is about the well-being of our societies today and in the future; and because it is beautiful. It carries wonderful ideas, some exposed more than 2000 years ago, spanning all civilizations. You will certainly marvel at Ibn Khaldun’s prescience, at Mo Tzu’s wisdom, at Solow’s depiction of transition phases, at Dorfman’s incredible intuition in solving variational problems.
 * Olivier de La Grandville, in Economic Growth: A Unified Approach (2009), Introduction

 * Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddimah provides insights into his theories on taxation within the broader context of his analysis of societies and civilizations. The Arab historian recognized taxation as a necessary means for funding the operations of the state. Taxes were crucial for maintaining social order, providing public services, and ensuring the security and stability of the kingdom. But Ibn Khaldūn advocated for a tax system that ensured an equitable distribution of the tax burden among the population. He believed that excessive taxation of certain groups or classes could lead to social unrest and undermine the stability of the state.
 * Davide Suleyman Amore, "A Comparative Analysis of Taxation Perspectives: Ibn Khaldūn and the Tai Ji Men Case", Bitter Winter (May 28, 2024)

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William of Malmesbury

William of Malmesbury (c. 1095 or '96 – c. 1143), English historian of the 12th century, was born about the year 1095 or '96, in Wiltshire. His father was Norman and mother English. He spent his whole life in England with his best working years as a monk at Malmesbury Abbey.

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 * We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.
 * Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125), quoted in Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity 1066-c.1220 (Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 56

 * This Arthur is the hero of many wild tales among the Britons even in our own day, but assuredly deserves to be the object of reliable history rather than of false and dreaming fable.
 * Gesta Regum Anglorum (1125), quoted in M. J. Cohen and John Major (eds.), History in Quotations (Cassell, 2004), p. 160

 * That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie].
 * On the Battle of Hastings, quoted in M. T. Clanchy, England and Its Rulers: 1066-1272 (Blackwell, 1998), p. 24

Quotes about William of Malmesbury

 * I must confess that I have never read W. Malmsb. de Pont. His Kings are enough to make me thoroughly despise him as a lying affected French scoundrel.
 * Edward Augustus Freeman to William Stubbs (26 April 1858), quoted in W. R. W. Stepens, The Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman, Volume I (1895), p. 241

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The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 film about the life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.
 * Directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese, based on the 1953 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis.

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 * The feeling begins. Very tender, very loving. Then the pain starts. Claws slip underneath the skin and tear their way up. Just before they reach my eyes, they dig in. And I remember. First I fasted for three months. I even whipped myself before I went to sleep. At first it worked. Then the pain came back. And the voices. They call me by name. Jesus.
 * God loves me. I know he loves me. I want him to stop! I make crosses so he'll hate me so he'll find another! I want to crucify every one of his messiahs.
 * You think God belongs only to you? He doesn't. God is an immortal spirit who belongs to everybody, to the whole world. You think you're special? God is not an Israelite.
 * Today and tomorrow I cast out demons and work cures. On the third day, I will be perfected.
 * If I was a woodcutter, I'd cut. If I was a fire, I'd burn. But I'm a heart and I love. That's the only thing I can do.
 * In the desert, the baptist warned us, God is coming. Well, I'm telling you it's too late! He's already here. I'm here! And I'm going to baptize everybody... with fire!
 * [drawing a circle in the earth while he speaks to God] I'm not going to leave this circle, I'm not going to leave until you speak to me. No signs, no pain, just speak to me in human words. Whatever path you want, I'll take. Love, or the axe, or anything else. Now if you want me to stay here and die, I'll do that too, but you have to tell me.
 * [stares at the heavens] Father, will you listen to me? Are you still there? Will you listen to a selfish, unfaithful son? I fought you when you called, I resisted! I thought of no more. I didn't want to be your son! Can you forgive me? I didn't fight hard enough. Father, give me Your hand. I want to bring salvation! Father, take me back! Make a feast! Welcome me home! I want to be Your son! I want to pay the price! I want to be crucified and rise again! I want to be the Messiah!

Saul

 * [to Jesus in the World without the Crucifixion] You see, you don't know how much people need God. You don't know how happy He can make them. He can make them happy to do anything. Make them happy to die, and they'll die, all for the sake of Christ. Jesus Christ. Jesus of Nazareth. The Son of God. The Messiah. Not you. Not for your sake. You know, I'm glad I met you. Because now I can forget all about you. My Jesus is much more important and much more powerful. Thank you, it's a good thing I met you.

Dialogue

 * Jesus: Brothers, my old friends! Listen to me! It's me the prophets preached about. God talked to me in the desert; he gave me a secret and told me to bring it to you. Didn't you hear me coming? I ran here to Nazareth, where I grew up, to bring you the news. The word of God is here now.
 * Voice in Crowd: You work miracles. Make a miracle for us. Make us believe in you. Otherwise, go away.
 * Jesus: The Messiah doesn't need miracles. He is the miracle. Now he's here. Are you ready for me? I'm here to tear down everything around you, and you know what I'm going to replace it with? Something new: God. The World of God. So take your bread and give it to the poor. What difference does it matter what you own? You have gold and silver? It's going to rot, and that rot is going to eat away your heart. All of you! There will be a flood, and there will be a fire. Everything will be destroyed. But there will be a new ark riding on that fire, and I hold the keys and I open the door, and I decide who goes in and who doesn't. You're my brothers from Nazareth, and you're the first I invite on the ark. Don't wait. Don't waste your life. Come with me.

 * Saul: You had orders to kill him and you haven't done it. Now he acts like a prophet, and you follow him!
 * Judas: Did you hear what he said back there?
 * Saul: Yes I heard him. We took an oath against Rome. I don't see a thing against Rome around here, all I see are Jews against Jews.
 * Judas: Then you're not listening.

 * Jeroboam: His spirit actually appeared to you. He treated you like a royal visitor. He recognized you for something.
 * Jesus: He couldn't have recognized me for anything. I only came here to serve God. That's all. That's all God wants from me. I'm sure of it.
 * Jeroboam: Think of how you're blessed. God actually makes himself known to you. I don't know what God wants from me. All my life I've wanted to hear God's voice. I've dedicated my life to him. Sometimes...I think I feel him, but I'm never really sure. But you always know. God took you by the hand and brought you here.
 * Jesus: You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.
 * Jeroboam: We all sin.
 * Jesus: Not my sins. I'm a liar. A hypocrite. I'm afraid of everything. I don't tell the truth. I don't have the courage. When I see a woman, I blush and look away. I want her, but I don't take her, for God, and that makes me proud. Then my pride ruins Magdalene. I don't steal, I don't fight...I don't kill. Not because I don't want to, but because I'm afraid. I want to rebel against you, against everything...against God, but...I'm afraid. You want to know who my mother and father are? You want to know who my God is? Fear. You look inside me and that's all you'll find.
 * Jeroboam: But the more devils we have inside of us, the more of a chance we have to repent.
 * Jesus: Lucifer is inside me. He says to me, You're not the son of King David. You're not a man, you're the Son of man. And more, the Son of God. And more than that, God. Do you want to ask me anything else?

 * Rabbi: That is blasphemy.
 * Jesus: Didn't they tell you? I am the saint of blasphemy. Don't make any mistakes, I didn't come here to bring peace, I came to bring a sword!
 * Rabbi: Talking like that will get you killed.
 * Jesus: Me, killed? Listen to me. This temple will be torn down in three days, torn down to the ground!

 *  Jesus: Judas, my brother, I have something to tell you. I have a terrible secret from God. You know why I came to Jerusalem?
 * Judas: Yes. This is where the revolution is going to begin.
 * Jesus: Last night, Isaiah came to me. He had a prophecy. I saw it written. It said, "He has borne our faults; he was wounded for our transgressions, yet he opened now his mouth. Despised and rejected by all, he went forward without resisting, like a lamb led to the slaughter."
 * Judas: I don't understand.
 * Jesus: Judas, I am the lamb. I'm the one who's going to do.
 * Judas: Die? You mean you're not the Messiah?
 * Jesus: I am.
 * Judas: That can't be. If you're the Messiah, why do you have to die?
 * Jesus: Listen, at first, I didn't understand myself...
 * Judas: No, you listen. Every day, you have a different plan. First it's love, then the ax, and now you have to die. What good could that do?
 * Jesus: God only talks to me a little at a time and tells me as much as I need to know.
 * Judas: We need you alive!
 * Jesus: Now I finally understand! All my life-all my life, I've been followed by voices, by footsteps, by shadows. And do you know what that shadow is? The cross. I have to die on the cross, and I have to die willingly. We have to go back to the temple.
 * Judas: And after you die on the cross, what happens then?
 * Jesus: I come back to judge the living and the dead.

 * Jesus: I wish there was another way, but there isn't. I have to die on the cross.
 * Judas: I won't let you die.
 * Jesus: You don't have a choice. Neither do I. Remember, we're bringing God and man together. They'll never be together unless I die. I'm the sacrifice... Forget everything else, understand that.

 * Judas: How will you ever pay for your sins?
 * Jesus: With my life, Judas. With my life. I don't have anything else.

 * Peter: Don't you have any respect?
 * Judas: For him?
 * Jesus: [feebly] You don't understand...
 * Judas: Understand?... You broke my heart. Sometimes I curse the day I ever met you! We held the world in our hands. Remember what you told me? You took me in your arms, do you remember? And you begged me, "Betray me, betray me. I have to be crucified, I have to be resurrected so I can save the world. I am the lamb," you said. "Death is the door. Judas, my brother, don't be afraid. Help me go through the door." And I loved you so much, I went and betrayed you. And you... you... What are you doing here? What business do you have here, with women, with children? What's good for men isn't good for God! Why weren't you crucified?
 * Peter: Look at his wounds, Judas, they're bleeding. You're hurting him. That's enough.
 * Judas: He was going to be the New Covenant. Now there's no more Israel.
 * Jesus: No, you don't understand... The guardian angel... God sent a guardian angel to save me.
 * Judas: Angel? What angel? Look at her. [points at the feminine youth, who becomes a pillar of fire] Satan.
 * Satan: I told you we would meet again.

 * Jesus: You're here to trick me.
 * The Cobra/Satan: Trick you? To love and care for a woman, to have a family? This is a trick? Why are you trying to save the world? Aren't your own sins enough for you? What arrogance to think you can save the world. The world doesn't have to be saved: save yourself. Find love
 * Jesus: I have love.

 * Pontius Pilate: It's one thing to want to change the way people live... but you want to change how they think, how they feel.
 * Jesus: All I'm saying is that change will happen with love, not with killing.
 * Pontius Pilate: Either way, it's dangerous. It's against Rome. It's against the way the world is. And killing or loving, it's all the same. It simply doesn't matter how you want to change things. We don't want them changed.

About The Last Temptation of Christ (film)

 * In Last Temptation, I'm playing a Jesus, not the Jesus. If I'm thinking I'm playing the Jesus, I don't know where to begin.
 * Willem Dafoe
 * If in secular Europe, the pope speaks out against the Scorsese film on Jesus' temptations, without even trying to pressure governments to ban it, the European secularist press, as if to pre-empt any suggestion of a ban, makes it quite clear that there can be no question of anyhow restricting the public's access to the film. If people don't want to see it, let them not go see it. That is their freedom, like it is other people's freedom to go see it, unimpeded by papal or governmental bans... In Europe, we have come to protect our constitutional freedoms, and hardly any bigot will even think of either seriously campaigning for a ban or using violence to punish people who show interest in the material to which he objects. All right, there was a bomb attack on a movie theater showing the Temptation film. But the culprit was simply caught and put in jail. Nobody has suggested that we should ban the film in order to avert violence. If at all there is a threat of violence, then there are no two opinions about the duty of the state to uphold the constitutional freedoms, and to prevent terror-mongers from dictating who can see what.
 * Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.

Cast

 * Willem Dafoe - Jesus
 * Harvey Keitel - Judas Iscariot
 * Steve Shill - Centurion
 * Verna Bloom - Mary, mother of Jesus (final film role)
 * Barbara Hershey - Mary Magdalene
 * Roberts Blossom - Aged Master
 * Barry Miller - Jerobeam
 * Gary Basaraba - Andrew
 * Irvin Kershner - Zebedee
 * Victor Argo - Peter
 * Paul Herman - Philip
 * John Lurie - James
 * Leo Burmester - Nathaniel
 * Andre Gregory - John the Baptist
 * Alan Rosenberg - Thomas
 * Nehemiah Persoff - Rabbi
 * Harry Dean Stanton - Saul/Paul of Tarsus
 * Peter Berling - Beggar
 * David Bowie - Pontius Pilate
 * Leo Marks - Voice of Satan

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SOCIETY

1871

“In the New World man is born to conquer. Life is a perpetual struggle. A rivalry from which no one can exempt himself, a race in the open field across terrible obstacles, with the prospect of enormous rewards for reaching to goal. The American cannot keep his arms folded. He must embark on something, and once embarked he must go on and on forever; for if he stops, those who follow him would crush him under their feet. His life is one long campaign, a succession of never-ending fights, marches, and countermarches.

“In such a militant existence, what place is left for the sweetness, the repose, the intimacy of home or its joys? Is he happy? Judged by his tired, sad, exhausted, anxious, and often delicate and unhealthy appearance, one would be inclined to doubt it. Such an excess of uninterrupted labor cannot be good for any man.

“The woman suffers most from this regime. She sees her husband at most for half an hour, once in the day, and then in the evening, when, worn out with fatigue, he comes home to sleep. She cannot lighten his burden or share his anxieties and cares, for she knows nothing of his business; for want of time, there is little or no interchange of thought between them.

“As a mother, her share in the education of her children is of the smallest. As soon as her little ones can run alone, they pass their lives away from her, out of the house. They are entirely ignorant of the obedience or respect due their parents but, on the other hand, learn early to do without care or protection, to be self-sufficient. They ripen quickly and prepare themselves for the fatigues and struggles of the overexciting, harsh, adventurous life which awaits them.”

'''Josef Alexander, Graf von Hübner, was an Austrian diplomat who was the ambassador of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Italy. He took a world tour after leaving that position, and published his observations.'''

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

1868	“The galleries were packed, and an indescribably anxiety was written on every face. Some of the members of the House near me grew pale and sick under the burden of suspense. Such stillness prevailed that the breathing in the galleries could be heard at the announcement of each senator’s voice.” ''George Julian, account of the vote in the Senate not to convict impeached Pres. Andrew Johnson.''

c. 1875 “The galleries and lobbies of every legislature are thronged with men seeking... an advantage.” A Northern Republican leader, complaining about people — now called lobbyists — wanting favors from lawmakers.

c. 1879 “We work through one campaign, take a bath and start in on the next.” Remark of a professional political campaign worker. 1879	“The only hope of exposing and breaking up the extortion an speculation by which a standing army of professional politicians corrupt the people whom they plunder [is action by] all honest citizens.” Henry George, author of Progress and Poverty.

1880	“It’s just like look’ ahead in Wall Street or in the coffee or cotton market... I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em.” George Washington Plunkett, of New York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall Democrat political organization, defending what he called “honest graft”.

c.	1880 “I believe in liberality. I am a thorough New Yorker and have no narrow prejudices. I never ask a hungry man about his past; I feed him, not because he is good, but because he needs food. Help your neighbor but keep your nose out of his affairs.” “Big Tim” Sullivan, popular machine political leader on New York’s Lower East Side.

1883	“Open, competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for public service.” Aim of the Civil Service Commission, established under the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, which was intended to eliminate the “spoils system” that had developed under Andrew Jackson 50 years earlier. 1890	“The largest executive bureau in the world.” ''Description of the Veterans Bureau, which came to employ some 25,000 government workers in 1900, which was responsible for providing for every veteran of the Union Army under the Pension Act of 1890. This was just the beginning of the growth of gigantic government bureaucracies.'' 1901	“Bully pulpit” President Theodore Roosevelt’s expression about the power of the presidency, especially its ability to persuade the people.


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Wikiquote:Transwiki/American History Primary Sources The Jeffersonian Era

THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA

	The “Revolution of 1800": Thomas Jefferson Is Elected President

1800	Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants, at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite the public agents to corruption, plunder, and waste. And I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail, of a common law being in force in the United States,... it would become the most corrupt government on earth....

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one — a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Gideon Granger of Connecticut, in which he spells out his ideas on limited government (August 13, 1800).

1801   	If there be a man in the world I ought to hate it is Jefferson....  But the public good must be [more important than] every other consideration. Federalist Alexander Hamilton, on President Thomas Jefferson, leader of the Anti-Federalists.

1801

All... will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and with one mind....

[E]very difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.... We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world’s best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government.

Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the to use of our own faculties, to the acquisition of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence; which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter — with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?

Still one thing more, fellow citizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.... ''Pres. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1801).''

1803.   	It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. Chief Justice John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, claiming the power of judicial review of legislation by the Supreme Court.

The Louisiana Purchase (1804)

1804	[There will be] distant times, when our rapid multiplication will expand [the nation]... & cover the whole northern if not the southern continent. Thomas Jefferson, on American expansion

1804	From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank. Robert Livingston, on the Louisiana Purchase

	Lewis and Clark

1803  	The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri River, and such principal stream of it, as, by its course and communication with the water of the Pacific Ocean may  offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce. ''Pres. Thomas Jefferson, Instructions to Capt. William Clark.''

1805   	Great joy in camp. We are in view of the ocean, this great Pacific Ocean which we have been so long anxious to see. Capt. Meriwether Lewis, diary entry of November 7, when the Lewis and Clarke expedition reached the Pacific Ocean.

Political Conflicts in Jefferson’s Administration

1804   	[Aaron Burr is a] dangerous man... who ought not to be trusted with the reins of government. Former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, on Vice President Burr, who killed Hamilton in a duel in July 1804.

1804  	The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves... but for the Legislature and Executive also.., would make the Judiciary a [tyrannical] branch. ''Pres. Thomas Jefferson, attacking the Supreme Court’s decision in Marbury v. Madison, in a letter to Abigail Adams.''

The Embargo Act (1807) and Its Consequences

1807  	Our trade is the most powerful weapon we can use in our defense. Editorial in a Republican newspaper supporting Jefferson’s trade embargo with Britain and France.

1807  	How much longer are you going to keep this Embargo on to starve us poor people?....  One of my children has already starved to death. 	Letter attacking Jefferson’s Embargo policy.

1807	You infernal villain. How much longer are you going to keep this... Embargo on to starve us poor people..... You must... afford us some kind of relief....  I wish you could feel as bad as I do. John Lane Jones, unemployed Boston laborer, in a letter to President Jefferson

1807	[The embargo was like] trying to cure the corn by cutting off the toes. John Randolph of Virginia on the Embargo.


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Wikiquote:Transwiki/American History Primary Sources The Road to Revolution

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION

The Rights of Colonists

1215

No [tax] may be levied in our kingdom without its general consent.... To obtain the general consent of the realm....  We will cause the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons to be summoned individually by letter...

No freeman shall be seized, imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, or exiled,... nor will we proceed against or prosecute him except by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.

From the Magna Carta, signed by King John II following a rebellion by the nobles of England.

1649

No person or persons whatsoever within this province... professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall henceforth be in any way troubled, molested, or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion, nor in the free exercise thereof...

	From the Maryland Toleration Act.

1682

Good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded by ill [evil] men; but good men will never want [lack] good laws, nor suffer [put up with] ill [bad] ones.

William Penn, Frame of Government of Pennsylvania.

1688

For all English liberties are restored to them: no persons shall have a penny of their estates taken from them; nor any laws imposed on them, without their own consent by representatives chosen by themselves.

''Rev. Increase Mather, reporting that a charter of Massachusetts Colony would be restored by King William and Queen Mary, following the Glorious Revolution that threw out King James II. Mather called the new charter ‘a Magna Carta for New England.’''

1693

It were better that ten suspected witches should escape than one innocent person should be condemned.

Attack on the Salem (Massachusetts) Witch Trials by Rev. Increase Mather, in Concerning Evil Spirits. 1733

A governor turns rogue, does a thousand things for which a small rogue would have deserved a halter (hanging), and because it is difficult... to obtain relief against him,... it is prudent to... join in the roguery.

John Peter Zenger, account in the New-York Weekly Journal that resulted in his being arrested and put on trial for libel.

1736

It is agreed upon by all men that this is a reign of liberty, and while men keep within the bounds of truth, I hope they may with safety both speak and write their sentiments of the conduct of men in power.

	From speech by Andrew Hamilton, defense counsel for newspaperman John Peter Zenger, whose trial established freedom of the press in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

	Ideas for Intercolonial Unity

1697

That the several colonies... do meet once a year, and oftener if need be during the war... to debate and resolve of such measures as are most advisable for their better understanding and the public tranquillity,sex and safety.

William Penn, Plan of Union for the Colonies.and his cat peanut butter

1754

It is proposed that humble application be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America, including all the said colonies....

	From Benjamin Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union. and his unicorn named "sex of life"

1755

Everyone cries a union is necessary. But when they come to the manner and form of the union, their weak noodles are perfectly distracted.

	Benjamin Franklin, letter to Gov. William Shirley of Massachusetts.and his pet dragon duhhhh

'CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND THEIR AMERICAN COLONISTS'

Writs of Assistance

1761

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s own house. A man’s house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ, if it should be declared legal, would totally destroy this privilege....

It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that was ever found in an English law-book.

	James Otis, speech in court opposing Writs of Assistance, which allowed officials unlimited power of search for illegal goods; his reasoning would be the basis of the reasoning of the search and seizure provision of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

1761 more like 69

Then and there, in the old Council Chamber, the child independence was born.

	John Adams, then a young lawyer, in his later memories of watching James Otis attack the Writs of Assistance.

1764

Every British subject born on the continent of America or in any of the other British dominions is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of Parliament... entitled to all the natural, essential, and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great Britain.

James Otis, Rights of British Colonies.

	England’s Mercantilist Laws

1763

A colonist cannot make a button, a horse shoe, nor a hobnail but some sooty iron monger or respectable button maker of Britain shall brawl... that his... worship is... injured, cheated and robbed by the rascally Americans.

Benjamin Franklin, on British Mercantilist laws that limit manufacturing in Britain’s American colonies.

England’s Financial Crisis, 1763

1763

We have not yet recovered from a war undertaken... for their protection... and... no time was ever so seasonable for claiming their assistance. The distribution is too unequal, of benefits only to the colonies, and all of the burdens upon the Mother Country.

	Thomas Whately, Considerations Upon This Trade and Finances of the Kingdom.

	The Stamp Act Crisis

1765

The taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them... is the only security against a burdensome taxation, and the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom.

	Virginia House of Burgesses, resolutions attacking the Stamp Act.

1765

We are told to be quiet when we see that the very money which is torn from us by lawless force made us of still further to oppose us, to feed and pamper a set of infamous wretches who swarm like the locusts of Egypt.

Sam Adams, protesting in Boston that Stamp Act taxes would pay for British officials and troops in America.

1765

Why not our lands? Why not the produce of our lands and, in short, everything we possess and make use of?

James Otis, speech attacking the Stamp Act as leading to the possibility of the British tax-man taking everything American colonists owned.

1765

We can no longer forebear complaining that... some of the late acts of Parliament, have a tendency... to divest us of our most essential rights and liberties.... [T]he act of Parliament, commonly called the Stamp Act,... [is] a very burdensome and, in our opinion, unconstitutional tax....

	John Adams, “Protest of Braintree, Massachusetts”.

1766

Our Colonies must be the biggest Beggars in the World, if such small Duties [taxes] appear to be intolerable Burdens in their Eyes.

	Pacificus, a pro-British writer, in the Maryland Gazette.

1765

The destructions, demolitions, and ruins caused by the rage of the Colonies... at that singular and ever memorable Stamp Act, will make the present year one of the most remarkable eras in the annals of North America. And that peculiar inflammation, which fired the breasts of the people of New England in particular, will always distinguish them as the warmest lovers of liberty; though undoubtedly, in the fur of revenge... they committed acts totally unjustifiable....

[The Sons of Liberty] did great damage in destroying... houses, furniture &c... and irreparable damage in destroying their papers.

Diary of Josiah Quincy, Jr., on the Stamp Act Riots and violence of the Sons of Liberty against Stamp Act agents.

1766

Such a day has not been seen in Boston before or since.... Music was heard in the streets....  The whole town was splendidly illuminated. The common was covered with multitudes. Rockets blazed in every quarter.

	John Adams, on Boston’s celebration when news arrived that the British Parliament had repealed the Stamp Act.

1766

And may each clime with equal gladness see

A monarch’s smile can set his subjects free.

From a poem by Phyllis Wheatley, a Boston slave, thanking Britain’s King George III for the repeal of the Stamp Act.

	The Declaratory Act

1766

[Parliament has] the full power and authority... to make laws... to bind the colonies and people of America... in all cases whatsoever.

From the text of the Declaratory Act (March 1766), passed by Parliament the same day that it repealed the Stamp Act.

The Townshend Acts

1767

[Taxes shall be] for defraying the charge of the administration of justice, and the support of the civil government.

From the Townshend Acts, passed in June-July 1767, which took the costs of courts and governors’ salaries away from appropriations of the colonial legislatures by having them paid directly from British tax collections.

1767

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First had his Cromwell, and George the Third (‘Treason’ cried the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Patrick Henry, Speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses opposing the Townshend Acts.

1767

The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper. They have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have [caused]?... My opinion... is that the Stamp Act [must] be repealed absolutely, totally and immediately.

Former Prime Minister William Pitt, speech in Parliament.

1767

The issue is whether Parliament can legally take money out of our pockets without our consent.

	John Dickenson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, protesting the Townshend Acts.

1768

We will destroy every soldier that dares put his foot on shore.... I look upon them as foreign enemies.

	Samuel Adams, protesting the sending of British troops to Boston.

1768

[W]e will not send for or import any kind of goods or merchandise from Great Britain.

	Nonimportation Agreement of Boston Merchants.

1768

[W]e were obliged to take refuge on board the Romney [British] man of war lying in Boston Harbor. Mrs. Burch, at whose house I was, had frequently been alarmed with the Sons of Liberty surrounding her house with most hideous howlings.... She had been exposed since her arrival and threatened with greater violence....

	Ann Hulton, reporting on how the family of a British tax collector in Boston was persecuted by American opponents of British taxes.

	The Boston Massacre 1770

Captain Preston stood between the soldiers and the mob, parleying with the latter, and using every conciliating method to persuade them to retire peaceably.... All he could say had no effect, and one of the soldiers, receiving a violent blow, instantly fired.

	British General Thomas Gage, Report on the Boston Massacre.

1770

Counsel ought to be the very last thing that an accused person should want in a free country;... and... persons whose lives were ate stake ought to have the counsel they prefer.

John Adams, on his decision to give legal support to the British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre.

1772

[I]nfringements of our rights [by Britain]... will by every candid person be judged sufficient to justify whatever measures have already been taken, or may be thought proper to be taken [by Americans], in order to obtain a redress of the grievances under which we labor.

	John Adams, A List of Infringements and Violations of Rights.

The Boston Tea Party

1773

There must always be one tax to keep up the right [to tax the American colonies].

King George III, urging Parliament to pass the Tea Tax.

1773

When I first appeared in the street after being disguised [as an Indian], I fell in with many who were dressed, equipped and painted as I was, and... marched in order to the place of our destination....

We were ordered by our commander to open the hatches [of one of the ships] and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard.... In about three hours from the time we went on board, we had thus broken and thrown overboard every tea chest to be found on the ship, while those in the other ships were disposing of the tea in the same way, at the same time....

A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, the recollections published in 1834 of George Hewes, a participant in the Boston Tea Party.

1773

This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm,... it must have such an important and lasting results that I can’t help considering it a turning point in history.

	John Adams, diary entry of December 17, the day after the Boston Tea Party.

The First Continental Congress

1774

The good people of the several colonies... justly alarmed at these arbitrary proceedings of Parliament and administration [the Intolerable Acts], have severally elected, constituted, and appointed deputies to sit and meet in the city of Philadelphia in order to [ensure that] their religion, laws, and liberties may not be subverted.

	Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress.

1774

The New England governments are in a state of rebellion, blows must decide whether they are to be subject to this country or independent.

	King George III, letter to the Prime Minister, Lord North

1775

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week, or next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot?

Sir, we are not weak is we make a proper use of those means which God hath placed in our power. Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.... The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest.

There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!

Our chains are forged!

Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!

The war is inevitable — and let it come!

I repeat, sir, let it come!

It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. The gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!

The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?... Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Almighty God — I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

	Patrick Henry, speech on March 23 in the Virginia House of Burgesses.And im donald trump and i approve this message.

1775

Whenever Great Britain has declared war they have taken their part.... What have we done for them? I believe precisely nothing at all.

Member of Parliament David Hartley in a speech supporting the Americans and calling for repeal of the Intolerable Acts.


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