Some Good Quotes That Have Been Collecting Up

I stand in awe of those who went before us shouldering fabulous minds.    Here are some of the best that have been collecting on my desktop.

The Patriot Post, Founders Quote Daily sends out a daily quote, and these are gleaned from their emailings.

• "[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch."
  
  -- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Abigail Adams, 11 September 1804)
  
  Reference: Original Intent, Barton (265-66); original Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas

• "It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."
  
  -- Patrick Henry (speech in the Virginia Convention, 23 March 1775)