"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson
"It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious." -Machiavelli
"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob." -- Ayn Rand
"To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology." - Mark Twain
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. -Carl Sagan
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. -Carl Sagan
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -James Madison
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from his government." -Thomas Paine
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." -- Dr. Milton Friedman
"A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him." -- Alexis de Tocqueville
"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety and will lose both." -Benjamin Franklin
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."-- George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutions, 1903
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to always be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
"Ours is not a fated existence, for nowhere is our destiny etched in stone. In the final analysis, the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them. If freedom is what we want, it is ours for the taking. Let the revolution begin." -Dr Ron Paul
"On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another." -- Virginia Postrel
"Not voting is just as bad as voting for evil men because it allows evil to succeed by default. Take a stand with people who support what you really support. Stop cowering and merely complaining about America's pending demise and act in such a way as to truly make a difference." -- Tom Ambrose
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -Isaac Asimov
"...the more the individual identifies with the White community, the more his attitudes will sway towards a negative relationship with the black community". -Michelle Obama(Princeton thesis.)
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." -George Orwell
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take from you everything you have." -Thomas Jefferson
"The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner parties they think it is their fault." -Henry Kissenger
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and the prudence never to practise either of them." -Mark Twain
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide." -John Adams, Letter, April 15, 1814
?Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.? - James Madison
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"I have read your book and much like it." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen (1935-)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)
"The average person thinks he isn't." - Father Larry Lorenzoni
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." -Mark Twain
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." -Oscar Wilde
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." - Benjamin Disraeli 1844
"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans." - Benjamin Disraeli 1876
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson 1913
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson" - FDR 1933
?Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.? -- Ben Franklin
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." - Tolstoy
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Ben Franklin
"Never pay for the same ground twice" -- Gen. George S. Patton
"Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws." - Nietzche
"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared -- this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth." -Nietzche
