Notable Quotable 109

Sep 19, 2023

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

- Marcus Aurelius

What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.

- Hannah Arendt

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

- Autobiography of Mark Twain

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

= Thomas Paine

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of government. But then I repeat myself.

- Mark Twain

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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely on force.

- George Orwell

The law is only as powerful as people’s willingness to abide by it.

- Zack Stanton

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

- Thomas Jefferson

We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.

- George Carlin

I think a curse should rest on me -- because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment -- and yet -- I can't help it -- I enjoy every second of it.

- Winston Churchill