Future Hindsight: 2011-03

Great question, great article. I think this one just about nails several of the biggies.

Enjoy! Howl or weep as you see fit.

How Ignorant Are Americans? - Newsweek

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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."
- Adlai E. Stevenson

"All that's necessary for evil to profit is that good people do nothing."
-Winston Churchill

"When the eagles fail to soar, the parrots begin to jabber."
-Winston Churchill

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals. We know now that it is bad economics.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (in 1937)

"When a country has 5% of the world's population but does 50% of its military spending then the persuasive powers of that country are in decline."
- "Prince Al-Subi" from the movie "Syriana"

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
- unknown

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
- Thomas Jefferson

”Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- MLK

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
- Nikola Tesla

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