445 Quotes by Stewart Stafford

If drinking alcohol gives people Dutch courage, then drinking coffee gives me Dutch energy.

I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

Insecurity is the enemy of knowledge.

Never make crucial decisions when angry. The rage that clouds judgement fades and only its consequences linger thereafter.

Someone tweeted a quote of mine yesterday, and got abused so much for posting it they deleted it. Any doubts free speech is under attack everywhere now vanished for me right there. The crushing of my words in another's mouth left me speechless. Words, and the freedom to express them, are getting torched on a bonfire of inanities. Then the chilling hand of déjà vu claps us on the back and tells us not to concern ourselves with independent thought.

The New World's purpose was to be The Old World's Eden - a place of dreams to wipe clean the mistakes and sins of the past and start again. This mirage bore the human flaws of its construction that we are still dealing with today.

Empires fall and drag their brands of civilization down with them.

History is dramatic license, covertly-financed with a sprinkling of gold dust from the newly-enthroned.

Quoting someone and rewriting their words makes it a quote from you and not them any longer. To change the meaning of someone's words without permission is offensive enough, to then contact the quoted person and try to justify it to them is even worse. It's verbatim or bust!