Jesse

“What I know concerns me. What I don’t know concerns me even more. What people aren’t telling me worries me the most.”
― Robert M. Gates, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War

“The great error of controversy is, that it is ever ready to assail persons rather than principles. The slave system as a system, perhaps concentrates more wrong than any other now existing, and yet those who live under and in it may be as we see, enlightened, generous, and amenable to reason. If the system alone is attacked, such minds will be the first to perceive its evils, and to turn against it; but if the system be attacked through individuals, self-love, wounded pride, and a thousand natural feelings, will be at once enlisted for its preservation.”
― Noel B. Gerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Biography

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

“For freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.”
― Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet