This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.
Control | Freedom of speech | Freedom of thought | Freedom | Liberty | Man | Public | Right | Speech | Thought | Wisdom |
Incessant change, everlasting innovation, seem to be dictated by the true interests of mankind. But government is the perpetual enemy of change... The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
Change | Enemy | Government | Innovation | Man | Mankind | Nothing | Wisdom | Wise | Government |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Milton Friedman, fully John Milton Friedman
The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.
Control | Good | Harm | Important | Man | Power | Regard | Tomorrow | Wisdom |