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Andrew Jackson
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives,
stop thinking and go in."
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Dresden James
"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. "When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
* "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
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William James
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." [ascribed]
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Dr. Zuhdi Jasser
[President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy]
* "Our society was built on embracing the rights of everyone to be free. It is incongruous with our values to blindly coddle a medieval mindset that relegates women to second class citizens and believes that a man or a family’s honor is more valuable than the life of a daughter or wife."
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Richard Jefferies
* "Let us get of these indoor narrow modern days, whose twelve hours somehow have become shortened, into the sunlight and the pure wind. A something that the ancients thought divine can be found and felt there still."
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Thomas Jefferson
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have."
* "He who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
* "This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."
"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."
* "What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
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Gov. Bobby Jindal
* "Here’s the great thing about the American dream: It’s not about equality of outcomes, it’s equality of opportunity. The great thing about the American dream is that circumstances of your birth don’t determine your outcomes as an adult."
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Steve Jobs
* "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."
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Gerald W. Johnson
"No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility."
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Clear your mind of can't."
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
"Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
"The future is purchased by the present."
"Those that have done nothing in life are not qualified to judge of those that have done little."
"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument." [ascribed]
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F. P. Jones
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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Erica Jong
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
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James Joyce
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
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Carl Jung
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
"The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet."
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Justin Martyr
* "Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophica to honor and love only what is true, declining to follow the opinions of the ancients, if these be worthless. For not only does sound reason direct us to refuse the guidance of those who did or taught anything wrong, but it is incumbent on the lover of truth, by all means, and if death be threatened, even before his own life, to choose to do and say what is right." [First Apology, addressed to Emperor Titus Aelius Adrianus Antoninus Pius Augustus Caesar, c. 140]
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