Basic Dave Van

Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or van:

    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    There’s no law against taking off a spaceship. It’s never been done so they haven’t gotten around to prohibiting it.
    —Rip Van Ronkel, and Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)