Politics, understanding and... evolution?

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
~ Ronald Reagan

Understanding is a three-edged sword : your side, my side, and the truth in between.
~ Ambassador Kosh, "Babylon 5"

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom vs. Tyranny

He judged it not fit to determine anything rashly; and seemed to doubt whether those different forms of religion might not all come from God, who might inspire man in a different manner, and be pleased with this variety; he therefore thought it indecent and foolish for any man to threaten and terrify another to make him believe what did not appear to him to be true.

~ Thomas More

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

~ Ronald Reagan