The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

-- Benjamin Franklin

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

-- Carl Jung

"Despite his appearance of confidence, Obama's is an empty soul in search of fulfillment.  The salve for his wounded heart is the acquisition of raw power. Power that is unimpeded, unopposed, and subject only to the capricious whims of a self-conscious, adolescent boy housed in a middle-aged man's body. Nothing less will do. "

from "Barack Obama is a Bad Man" by Jay Clarke at AmericanThinker.com

"For me, I shall come some day to the real sciences and I shall learn astrology," the 16th Century mystic Bartholomew de las Casas said to the youthful explorer Hernando Cortez.

Replied Cortez, "You can never pick me a destiny out of that swarming heaven, but I will cut out a better one for myself."

Source: The Real America in Romance, Volume II 1506-1547 (edited by Edwin Markham)

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