The Constable's Quotation Page
Here are some of the Constable's favorite quotations that he uses to educate his opponents:
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Good and evil are meaningless to things that have no souls.
Plato
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither
enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows
not victory or defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causng anguish. Unfortunately for you, I am guilty of all three.
The Constable
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
The world is no nursery.
Sigmund Freud
Everything to excess. Moderation is for monks.
Lazarus Long
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light!
Dylan Thomas
Only a mediocre man is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ablity of a man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour.
Henry David Thoreau
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the
great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
The Constable
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison
If the human mind were simple enough to understand,
we'd be too simple to understand it.
Pat Bahn
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people
who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would
not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the
importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the
reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade
others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose
of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.
Machiavelli
Families, when a child is born
Want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence,
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life
By becoming a Cabinet Minister
Su Tung-p'o
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right
keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
J. S. Bach
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both
incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by
twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
R. Serling
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in
praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the
`social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
Ernest Rutherford
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Harry S Truman
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of ap rofound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny ..."
Isaac Asimov
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus
handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that
virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some
people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as
we could with both of them.
Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
G. B. Shaw
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular
error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
If A equals success, then the formula is:
A= X + Y + Z
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
wants to read.
Mark Twain
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is
because we are not the person involved
Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
society.
Mark Twain
Why do men go to war? Because women are watching.
T. S. Eliot
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its
fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be
popular.
Oscar Wilde
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