Quotes: 30th July 2008

[Stephen]

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
-- Margot Asquith

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

To be great is to be misunderstood.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Essay on Self-Reliance

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
-- A. J. Liebling