Quotes Aug 27

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society, from a give-it-to-me to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher

Barry Commoner predicted around 1970 that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.

Never until the nineteenth century was it supposed that the Church or Temple was a sort of side-show that nothing to do with the State.-G. K. Chesterton@GKCdaily