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674 of our favorite quotes A. d. Benoist   "The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation. "   A. J. Liebling   "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."   A.A. Milne   "The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."   Abbie Hoffman   "Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles."   Abigail Adams   "Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."   Abraham Lincoln   "Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."     "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."     "The ballot is stronger than the bullet."     "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."     "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have."   Adam Michnik   "As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman."   Adlai Stevenson   "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."     "He who slings mud generally loses ground."   Aesop   "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."     "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."     "In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."     "It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."     "The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."     "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."     "The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."     "While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again."     "I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath."   African proverb   "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter."   Alan Coren   "Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."   Alastair Farrugia   "Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens."   Albert Einstein   "The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man."     "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."     "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."     "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."     "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."     "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."     "The world is a dangerous place to live—not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."     "Not everthing that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted"     "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."   Albert Ellis   "The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny."   Albert Moravia   "Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic."   Aldous Huxley   "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."     "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."   Alexander Hamilton   "No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave."     "The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral."   Alexis de Tocqueville   "Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier."   Alfred Adler   "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."   Alfred North Whitehead   "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order."   Alice Thomas Ellis   "There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters."   Alice Walker   "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."   Ambrose Bierce   "Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."     "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."   Anatole Broyard   "There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."   Andre Maurois   "Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."   Andrejs Upits   "We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds."   Andrew Johnson   "Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one."   Andy Rooney   "The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."   Ann Landers   "Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."   Anne Tyler   "Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul--chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"   Anonymous   "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."     "If you feel down just consider that the sun sinks every night - but rises again in the morning."     "They said 'Cheer up - things could be worse.' So I cheered up...and sure enough, things got worse."     "Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up."     "Don't think of it as getting hot flashes. Think of it as your inner child playing with matches."     "You don't stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing."     "Neurotics build castles in the sky. Psychotics live in them. Psychiatrists collect the rent."     "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car."     "If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise."     "My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am."     "Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying."   Ansel Adams   "To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer."   Antoine de Saint-Exupery   "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."     "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."     "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."     "Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."   Antonio Porchia   "I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received."   Anwar al-Sadat   "He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality."   Arab Proverb   "A foolish man is known by six things: Anger without cause, Speech without profit, Change without progress, Inquiry without object, Putting trust in a stranger, Mistaking foes for friends."   Aristotle   "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."     "Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."     "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."     "Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy."   Arnold Toynbee   "Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."   Art Spander   "The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."   Ayn Rand   "Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)"     "The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time."   Barbara Ehrenreich   "That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose."   Barry Goldwater   "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."   Basil Maturin   "Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to."   Ben Bagdikian   "Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele."     "In 1983, the men and women who headed the 50 mass media corporations that dominated American audiences could have fit comfortably in a modest hotel ballroom... By 2003, five men controlled all these old media once run by the 50 corporations of 20 years earlier."   Benjamin De Casseres   "Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma."   Benjamin Franklin   "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"     "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."     "Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."     "Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow."     "Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. "   Bernard Baruch   "Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."     "The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."   Bertolt Brecht   "Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them."   Bertrand Russell   "A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision."     "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."     "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."   Bill Cosby   "Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."   Bill Maher   "I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."   Bill Watterson   "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children."   Billie Jean King   "Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."   Billy Wilder   "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's."   Bob Ross   "A leader without a sense of humour is apt to be like the grass mower at the cemetery - he has lots of people under him, but nobody is paying him any attention."   Bobby Slayton   "If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people."   Boris Pasternak   "What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."   Brendan Behan   "The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink, and somebody to love you."   Buddy Hackett   "I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. "     "Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much."     "I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart."     "As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."     "The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it."   Bulent Ecevit   "Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission."   C.S. Lewis   "Mercy, detached from justice, grows unmerciful."   Calvin Coolidge   "We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once."   Captain Jack Sparrow   "Nobody move! I just dropped my brain."   Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens   "Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality."   Carol Burnett   "When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go."   Charles Barkley   "My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."   Charles DeGaulle   "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."   Charles H. Spurgeon   "Regarding not the day, let us give God thanks for the gift of His dear Son... If it be possible to honor Christ in the giving of gifts, I cannot see how while the gift, giver and recipient are all in the spirit of the world... But we have in Christ a gift the entire year."   Charles M. de Talleyrand   "The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."   Christopher Fry   "In tragedy, every moment is eternity. In comedy, eternity is a moment."   Cicero   "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."   Clare Boothe Luce   "There are no hopeless situations; There are only men who have grown hopeless about them."   Clarence Darrow   "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."   Confucius   "Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven. "   Cynthia Heimel   "Just below the surface of consciousness, there lurks...a subterranean giggle. Nurture it, give it its space, and it will be fruitful and multiply and cheer your days and warm your nights."   Dag Hammarskjold   "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."     "Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away."     "The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."   Dave Barry   "Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told."     "Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes."     "Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."     "I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care."     "MEGAHERTZ: This is a really, really big hertz."     "Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."     "To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent."     "We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective."     "Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."     "I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."     "Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face."     "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet."     "You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."     "What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."     "Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking."     "The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly."     "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base."     "Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."     "Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."     "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'"   Dave Long   "When you think of 'de-politicizing' a government position, remember that 14 million people died because Hitler 'de-politicized' Europe."   David Letterman   "USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population."   Dean Acheson   "The thing to remember is that the future comes one day at a time."   Derek Wilken   "Insanity is like virtual reality, without the bulky gloves and helmet."   Dick Cavett   "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either."   Dominique Moisi   "The more you're scared, the more you have to create jokes."   Dorothy Parker   "A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."     "Brevity is the soul of lingerie."     "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."     "If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."     "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."     "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."     "The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."     "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."     "That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."     "They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm."     "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."   Douglas Adams   "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."     "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."     "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."     "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."     "Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast."     "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."     "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."   Dr. Conrad Hyers   "If humour without faith is in danger of dissolving into cynicism and despair, faith without humour is in danger of turning into arrogance and intolerance."   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   "No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."   Dwight D. Eisenhower   "Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."     "Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God."     "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."     "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."   Dwight L. Moody   "God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves."   E. B. White   "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."   E.M. Cioran   "Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse."   E.M. Forster   "Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."   Earl Riney   "Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom with obligation is democracy."   Ecclesiastes 3:12   "I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live."   Edgar Watson Howe   "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."   Edmund Burke   "General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked."     "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."   Edward Abbey   "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."   Edward Gibbon   "In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."   Edward R. Lyman   "Principle—particularly moral principle—can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true."   Elie Wiesel   "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."   Elizabeth T. King   "I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort."   Elmer Davis   "The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it."   Erasmus Darwin   "He who allows oppression, shares the crime."   Eric Hoffer   "Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power."   Erma Bombeck   "Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."     "Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery."   Eugene McCarthy   "As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences."   Eva Gabor   "Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."   F. Scott Fitzgerald   "Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."   Fran Lebowitz   "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. "     "Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat."   Frank Zappa   "Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."   Franklin P. Adams   "There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. "     "I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."   Franklin P. Jones   "Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog."   Fred Allen   "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."     "You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."   Fred Thompson   "After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."   Frederic Bastiat   "There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are ‘just’ because the law makes them so."   Frederick Douglass   "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."     "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning."   G. K. Chesterton   "The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things."   G. Norman Collie   "In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen."   Galbraith's Law   "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."   Garson Kanin   "A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he said, with a twinkle in his eye, 'it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'"   General Douglas MacArthur   "Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory."   Genesis 21:6   "God has brought me laughter."   Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel   "What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."   George Ade   "'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college."     "After being turned down by numerous publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."   George Bernard Shaw   "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."     "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."     "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."   George Burns   "Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too."     "By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it."   George Carlin   "As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything."     "Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."     "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."     "If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?"     "There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past."     "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."     "When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?"     "If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?"     "Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?"     "The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions."   George Eliot   "The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."     "Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."   George F. Will   "Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs."   George W. Bush   "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people."     "Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver."     "Hindsight alone is not wisdom and second-guessing is not a strategy."   George Washington   "Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."   Gloria Steinem   "A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space."   Goldie Hawn   "Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world."   Gore Vidal   "Never have children, only grandchildren."   Gracie Allen   "When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."   Groucho Marx   "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."     "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."     "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be."   H.L. Mencken   "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."     "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."     "Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."     "The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."     "Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."     "Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of."     "Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice."     "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."     "The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians."     "Liberals have many tails and chase them all. "     "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."     "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking."     "Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."     "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."     "A celebrity is one who is known by many people he is glad he doesn't know."     "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."     "Lawyer: One who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation."     "Judge: A law student who marks his own papers."     "A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground."     "Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice."     "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."     "Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work."     "People constantly speak of ‘the government’ doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men."   Hannah More   "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. "   Harry S Truman   "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."     "Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."     "We can't have lasting peace unless we work actively and vigorously to bring about conditions of freedom and justice in the world."   Helen Keller   "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."     "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."   Henry Beecher   "A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road."   Henry David Thoreau   "That government is best which governs least."     "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."   Henry de Jouvenel   "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."   Herbert Swope   "The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it is accurate, it follows that it is fair."   Hobart Brown   "Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars."   Hubert H. Humphrey   "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. "   Iain Benson   "Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else."   Igor Stravinsky   "Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."   II Corinthians 3:12 - 14   "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."   II Corinthians 4:18   "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."   II Corinthians 4:7   "But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us."   II Corinthians 9:7   "God loveth a cheerful giver."   Irving Kristol   "Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity."   J. K. Rowling   "It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."   Jack Lemmon   "Stay humble. Always answer the phone, no matter who else is in the car."   Jackie Mason   "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life—unless I have to buy something."   James Madison   "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."   James Russell Lowell   "Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."     "There is no good in arguing with the inevitable The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."   James Thurber   "If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."   Japanese Proverb   "If you understand everything, you must be misinformed."   Jawaharlal Nehru   "Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."   Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr   "Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."   Jeff Tweedy (of the band, Wilco)   "I don't think anybody should make any money on music. Maybe we should pay audiences."   Jerry Garcia   "Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills."   Jessamyn West   "We want facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."     "We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other."     "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."     "We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."     "If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one."     "A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain."     "A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing."     "A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."     "Groan and forget it."   Jim Bishop   "Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."   Job 8:21   "God will fill your mouth with laughter."   Joe Weinstein   "My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money."   Joey Adams   "A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   "To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult."     "If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."     "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."   John 1:14   "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."   John Adams   "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."     "Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."   John Barrymore   "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."   John Calvin   "All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good."   John Cleese   "If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas."   John F. Kennedy   "There are three things which are real: God, human folly and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third."     "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life."   John Guarrine   "Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line."   John J. Plomp   "You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."   John Kenneth Galbraith   "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."   John Page   "We know the Race is not to the swift nor the Battle to the Strong. Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?"   John Quincy Adams   "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a great leader."   Jon Bon Jovi   "Map out your future, but do it in pencil."   Joseph Addison   "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity."   Joseph Marmion   "Joy is the echo of God's life within us."   Joseph Story   "A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained."   Josh Billings   "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."   Judge Gideon J. Tucker   "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."   Judith Wilt   "Comedy is...[offering] solace, piling sandbags of wit against the flood of anger and pain. "   Judy Garland   "Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."   Julia Alvarez   "The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on."   Katherine Mansfield   "Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."   Kathleen Turner   "Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise."   Keith F. Lynch   "I've noticed that the press tends to be quite accurate, except when they're writing on a subject I know something about."   King Edward VIII   "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."   Lao-Tzu   "A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness."   Lawrence Lessig   "There is this Civil War between north and south--between Silicon Valley and Hollywood...The problem we have right now is that the Southerners are fighting like hell to solve the problem of the Internet by breaking its kneecaps."   Leonardo da Vinci   "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."   Lily Tomlin   "When I’m happy I feel like crying, but when I’m sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it’s better to be happy, then you get two feelings for the price of one."     "I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody."     "If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed."   Lin Yutang   "Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."   Lord Acton   "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."     "The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."   Lord Byron   "Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."   Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez (retired)   "What is clear to me, is that [the media is] perpetuating the corrosive partisan politics that’s destroying our country and killing our service members who are at war."   Lucille Ball   "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."     "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."   M. Acklam   "We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made."   Madeleine L'Engle   "Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."   Mahatma Gandhi   "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."     "What you do is of little significance, but it is very important that you do it."     "You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."   Malcolm Forbes   "You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them."   Manfred Hausmann   "Democracy means: Sticking to the rules of the game, even when the referee is not looking."   Mark Twain   "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."     "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."     "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."     "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."     "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."     "An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."     "Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."     "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."     "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."     "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."     "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."     "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."     "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."     "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."     "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."     "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."     "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."     "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."   Marlon Brando   "The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."   Martin Luther   "Where there are no good works, there is no faith. If works and love do not blossom forth, it is not genuine faith, the Gospel has not yet gained a foothold, and Christ is not yet rightly known."     "Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may—wealth or self, pleasure or renown."   Martin Luther King   "Humor is a divine quality and God has the greatest sense of humor of all. He must have, otherwise he wouldn't have made so many politicians."   Mary Ritter Beard   "Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile."   Melanie Grace   "What doesn't kill you will make you funnier."   Michael J. Fox   "One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."     "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."   Michelangelo Buonarroti   "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."   Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra   "Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."   Miss Piggy   "Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs."   Mohammed, The Koran   "He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."   Mother Teresa   "Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."   Muhammad Ali   "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."   Noel Coward   "It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."   Norm Crosby   "If your eyes hurt after you drink coffee, you have to take the spoon out of the cup."   Norman Cousins   "Laughter interrupts the panic cycle of an illness."     "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."   Norman Douglas   "If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."   Norman Mailer   "Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."   Ogden Nash   "Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long."   Oscar Levant   "It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts."   Oscar Wilde   "Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."     "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."   Ovid   "What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."   P. G. Wodehouse   "I always advise people never to give advice."   P. J. O'Rourke   "Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."     "Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs."     "The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."     "Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen."     "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."   Pearl Bailey   "People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."     "When we swallow a little knowledge of ourselves, it becomes either good or sour inside."     "My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future."     "A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest."     "What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."     "When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements."   Phil Pastoret   "If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them."   Phyllis Diller   "A smile is the curve that sets everything straight."     "Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home."   Plato   "We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."   Plutarch   "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."     "Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."   Proverbs 15:13   "A happy heart makes the face cheerful."   Proverbs 15:15   "A cheerful heart has a continual feast."   Proverbs 15:30   "A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones."   Proverbs 17:22   "A cheerful heart is good medicine."   Psalms 2:4   "The One whose throne is in Heaven sits laughing."   Putt's Law   "Two types of people dominate technology: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."     "Rejection of management objectives is undesirable when you are wrong, and unforgivable when you are right."   Pythagoras   "Choices are the hinges of destiny."   Rabbi Abraham Heschel   "Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."   Ralph Waldo Emerson   "To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a bit better...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded."     "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."     "As we grow old…the beauty steals inward."     "Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints."     "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could."     "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."     "The only way to have a friend is to be one."   Richard Bach   "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the Master calls a butterfly."   Richard Henry Lee   "It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people."   Richard Wagner   "Joy is not in things; it is in us."   Rita Rudner   "I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."   Robert A. Heinlein   "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."   Robert Benchley   "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."   Robert Burns   "Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang To step aside is human."     "What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools."     "Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays."   Robert E. Lee   "True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them—the desire to do right—is precisely the same."   Robert G. Allen   "Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist."   Robert Louis Stevenson   "The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you."   Robert Welch   "The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security."   Roger Caras   "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."   Ronald Reagan   "There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit"     "The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith."     "I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."     "Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."     "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."     "No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."     "The West won't contain Communism. It will transcend it. It will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written."     "Communism is neither an economic or a political system -- it is a form of insanity -- a temporary aberration which will one day disappear from the earth because it is contrary to human nature. I wonder how much more misery it will cause before it disappears."     "All great change in America begins at the dinner table."     "There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying I am an American."     "Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement..."     "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."     "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."     "Status quo, you know, that is Latin for 'the mess we're in'."     "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."     "If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made."     "Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."     "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"     "I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me...even if it's in the middle of a cabinet meeting."     "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."     "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."     "I will not exploit my opponent's youth and inexperience."     "And I also remember something that Thomas Jefferson once said: 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that..."     "History's no easy subject. Even in my day it wasn't, and we had so much less of it to learn then."     "Honey, I forgot to duck."     "The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."     "I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties."     "When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the example of their nominee [Bill Clinton]: don't inhale"     "With the Iran thing occupying everyone's attention, I was thinking: Do you remember the flap when I said, 'We begin bombing in five minutes'? Remember when I fell asleep during my audience with the Pope? Remember Bitburg?... Boy, those were the good old days."     "When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow, and let there be no misunderstanding we are going to begin to act, beginning today."     "An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory."   Roseanne Barr   "Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself."   Rudyard Kipling   "Yet we were what we were, and, fashioned so, It pleased us to stare at the far show Of unbelievable years and shapes that flit; In our own likeness on the edge of it."   Russell Baker   "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."   Saki [H. H. Munro]   "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."   Samuel Beckett   "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."   Samuel Goldwyn   "You've got to take the bitter with the sour."   Scott Adams   "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"     "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."   Shirley MacLaine   "It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."   Shunryu Suzuki   "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few."   Sitting Bull   "Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!"     "Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."   Sophocles   "He who in his own house is virtuous will also be just in civic affairs."   St. Francis of Assisi   "Preach the gospel at all times. Use words if necessary."   Stephen Hawking   "When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have."   Steve Allen   "Even if laughter were nothing more than sheer silliness and fun, it would still be a precious boon. But we now know that it is far more than that, that it is, in fact, an essential element in emotional health."   Steve Landesberg   "Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."   Steven Wright   "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize."     "Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back."     "Half the people you know are below average."     "99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name."     "42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot."     "A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good."     "A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory."     "If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."     "All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand."     "The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. "     "I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met."     "If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something."     "Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm."     "When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."     "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy."     "Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now."     "I intend to live forever; so far, so good."     "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen... and replaced by exact duplicates!"     "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."     "My mechanic told me, 'I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.'"     "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."     "A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."     "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."     "The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread."     "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. "     "The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard."     "The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up."     "Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film."     "If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work? "     "Spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone."     "My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted."   Supreme Court Justice William Douglas   "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."   The Smile Connection   "Even professional comics don’t know if their humour will work until they try, it and sometimes it doesn’t."   Theodore Roosevelt   "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."     "To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon good men doing."   Thomas Carlyle   "Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world."   Thomas Henry Huxley   "If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"   Thomas Jefferson   "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."     "The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore...never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market."     "My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses."     "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."     "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."     "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."     "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."     "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."     "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."     "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."     "We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."     "If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."     "...(T)here is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."     "Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner,