Men are qualified for civil liberty , in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above rapacity In proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding　 is above their vanity of presumption; in proportion 　as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels　 of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within , the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. -　Edmund

Burke(1791)

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. -Alexis de Tocqueville

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. -Alexis de Tocqueville

In matters of style swim with the stream, in matters of principle stand like a rock- Thomas Jefferson

Falling stars

Einstein couldn’t pass the grade

They thought him slow

Unable to persuade

Yet he outgrew them all

Even so his own fall

For he would not dare equate

The Universe in growing state

So many of his stubborn rules

Founded by unbelieving doubt

What greatness he refused

Falling stars and Tesla’s mind

Man it seems God made blind

So many stars fall into abyss

Forever they are extinguished

And We hear only a hiss