I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- Thomas Jefferson

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you are an American and you are not registered to vote, do it NOW.

The issues facing our country and our world are too important to be decided without your participation.

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Further reading: We are free only if we do the work of freedom

Dwight D. Eisenhower: How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

Presidential Quotes

Thomas Jefferson: I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - Larry Flynt

Shark! Swim for your lives!

Shark! Swim for your lives! NO, this isn't a picture of some cold killer from the deep. It's a friendly warm-blooded dolphin, an animal people pay to swim with, a mammal some experts believe to be as intelligent as a chimpanzee.

Many of us go through life fearing that every shadow is a shark waiting to attack us and our loved ones. While there are real dangers in the world, fear , especially generalized unreasoning fear, causes far greater harm to humanity than all the sharks in the ocean, the financial underworld, and the dark alleys put together.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Further reading: The path of the adventurer is a path of joy - jlh

Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm - jlh

Pope John XXIII: Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous

The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown. Something bad MIGHT happen tomorrow, or five minutes from now, I'm worried...

Our greatest enemy is the belief that life is SUPPOSED to be safe. But life is always dangerous, and eventually fatal. Our opportunity for happiness lies in CHOOSING to live without fear of the unknown, not because life is not dangerous, but because life IS, by its very nature, a hazardous undertaking.

Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Wheee... all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.

[The phrase "razor-blade of life" comes from the 1960's Tom Lehrer song, Bright College Days... "Soon we'll be out, amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life."]

Further reading: What To Do When Your Whole World Is Falling Apart?

Five Ways To Cope With Loss, Grief and the Fear Of Your Own Mortality

John Lennon: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind - jlh

John F. Kennedy: When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

Anger spells dANGER - jlh

Anger spells dANGER
- jonathan lockwood huie

Anger and Danger are intimately intertwined. An angry person is a dangerous person, whether that person crosses our path or whether the angry person is ourself. To complete the anger/danger cycle, whenever we feel threatened - when we believe we are in danger - we tend to exhibit anger as well as fear. We look for someone to blame for the dangerous situation, and direct our anger toward them.