I'm Breathing . . . Are You

If We Lived In A State Where Virtue Was Profitable, Common Sense Would Make Us Good, And Greed Would Make Us Saintly. And We'd Live Like Animals Or Angels In The Happy Land That /needs/ No Heroes. But Since In Fact We See That Avarice, Anger, Envy, Pride, Sloth, Lust And Stupidity Commonly Profit Far Beyond Humility, Chastity, Fortitude, Justice And Thought, And Have To Choose, To Be Human At All... Why Then Perhaps We /must/ Stand Fast A Little --even At The Risk Of Being Heroes.

Some Men Think The Earth Is Round, Others Think It Flat; It Is A Matter Capable Of Question. But, If It Is Flat, Will The King's Command Make It Round? And, If It Is Round, Will The King's Command Flatten It?

The Man Who Tells Lies Hides The Truth, But The Man Who Tells Half-lies Has Forgotten Where He Put It.

Thomas More: Will, I'd Trust You With My Life. But Not Your Principles. You See, We Speak Of Being Anchored To Our Principles. But If The Weather Turns Nasty You Up With An Anchor And Let It Down Where There's Less Wind, And The Fishing's Better. And "look," We Say, "look, I'm Anchored! To My Principles!

Doin' Nothing's A Dangerous Occupation.