>Interesting People<

Most people in the U.S.A--and many in the rest of the world--are aware
of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln; the
following are lesser known but interesting just the same.

    * Smedley Butler
    * Randolph Bourne
    * Cassius Marcellus Clay
    * Nimiputimt
    * Jeannette Rankin 

                       >Interesting Quotes<

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
   --Steven Crane, "A Man Said to the Universe", 1899

"Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even
the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.  . . . Therefore in
a just society . . . the rights secured by justice are not subject to
political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests."
   --John Rawls, "A Theory of Justice", 1971

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the
poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal
bread."
   --Anatole France, "The Red Lily", 1894

"The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds;
the pessimist fears this is true."
   --James Branch Cabell, "The Silver Stallion", 1926

"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that
he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a
creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up,
wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows
poorer and uglier every day."
   --Anton Chekhof, "Uncle Vanya", 1897

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the
miseries or credulities of mankind."
   --Joseph Conrad, "A Personal Record", 1912

The following quotes are offered in the spirit that we may learn as
much, if not more, from evil than good:

"Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary . . . does
not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal."
   --Benito Mussolini

"The great masses of people . . . will more easily fall victims to a
big lie than to a small one."
   --Adolph Hitler