dixietraveller's quotes

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself – perhaps in a contest between North and South America. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of old Europe.

The truth of necessity is, therefore, Freedom.

Te de aliis quam alios de te suavius est fieri doctos. (It is a sweeter thing for you to become wise from others' mistakes than for others to become wise from your mistakes.)

In medio stat veritas (The truth stands in the middle)

“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan,”controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

. . . but the fact remains that where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

Lucrum cum iactura famae damnum est, non lucrum. (Profit, with the loss of reputation, is loss, not profit.)