I’ve always figured that when the suffering and violence that went into a revolution is forgotten in favor of fireworks and empty hero worship, it’s probably time for another….

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
- Woodrow Wilson

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
- Joseph Stalin

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
- John V. Lindsay

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson

More quotes in honor of Independence Day.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
- Frederick Douglass

And not all revolutions bring real freedom…

So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks.
- Samuel Bonom

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
- Will Rogers

We have to call it “freedom”; who’d want to die for “a lesser tyranny”?
- Mignon McLaughlin

Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
- Ambrose Bierce

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford

This week’s quotes will be in honor of Independence Day. Now get to work.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
- Thomas Paine

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We shared some internet facts a while back. Here are some more.

Did you know that each minute on the internet….

Google serves more that 694,445 queries
695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on social networking site Facebook
70 new domains are registered
More than 168,000,000 emails are sent
Over13,000 iPhone applications are downloaded
More than 1,200 new ads are created on Craigslist

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the “Professional Building.” I felt better right away.
- George Carlin

America’s healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
- Walter Cronkite

Through anger, the truth looks simple.
- Jane McCabe

Whining is anger through a small opening.
- Stuart Smalley

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
- Malachy McCourt

Nature is by and large to be found out-of-doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
- Fran Lebowitz

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
- Alan Watts

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David Letterman

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he’ll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
- Charles N. Haas

John Muir once declared that he was better off than the magnate E.H. Harriman. “I have all the money I want,” Muir explained, “and he hasn’t.”
- Clifton Fadiman

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Frozen water is 9% lighter than water, which is why ice floats on water.

Of all the water on earth, only 2.5% is fresh water.

Human brains are 75% water

39,000 gallons of water are used in the process of manufacturing a single car.

Have you ever heard of “instant ice”? Take a bunch of cold, then just add water. Supercooled water: