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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), US Supreme Court Chief Justice, June 17, 1925

Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard

The right of the citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
Senator Hubert Humphrey

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley

No man with any sense of humor, ever founded a religion.
Robert G. Ingersoll

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
Alexander Jablokov, 'The Place of no Shadows'

If hard work is so good for you, how come the rich don't keep it all for themselves?
Jamaican saying

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on Earth... and what no just government should refuse.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Paris, Dec. 20, 1787

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. Thomas Jefferson

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.
Thomas Jefferson, [letter?] To S. Kercheval, 1810

Freedom is meaningless unless you can give to those with whom you disagree.
Thomas Jefferson

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing...
Thomas Jefferson

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter To Francis Hopkinson, Paris Mar. 13, 1789

Most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

 Still one more thing, fellow citizens: a wise and frugal government, which shall refrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William S. Smith, Paris, Nov. 13, 1787

Forgive your enemies, but remember their names.
John F. Kennedy

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Soren Kierkegaard

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Anita Koddick

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
Lafayette

How did the great rivers and seas gain dominion over the hundred lesser streams? By being lower than they.
Lao Tzu

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. LeGuin

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
Harry Lime to Holly Martins, 'The Third Man'

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-tung

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
Groucho Marx, 1890-1977

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.
Karl Marx

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
H.L. Mencken

Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
Gamel Abdel Nasser

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.
New England saying

First the Nazis went after the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did not object. Then they went after the Catholics, but I was not a Catholic, so I did not object. Then they went after the Trade-Unionists, but I was not a Trade-Unionist, so I did not object. Then they came after me, and there was no one left to object.
Martin Niemoeller (Dachau, 1945)

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
Kenich Ohmae

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.
Laurence J. Peter

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you

Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?" He said, "Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God,

or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off.
Emo Phillips

You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.
Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows - he breathes but does not live.
Sanskrit Proverb

Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killers hands.)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the younger" ca. 4 BC - 65 AD

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward.
Swedish proverb

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau

The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.
U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. v. Cruikshank

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
Voltaire

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless, there are three other people.
Orson Welles

47% of all statistics are useless.

500,000 lemmings can't be wrong.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry

A mind at rest sees unity and mind disturbed sees multiplicity
Chinese Proverb

The world is a mirror, you get back what you project
Jennifer’s Dad

A success is a failure, for you can learn nothing, A failure is a chance for success if you ask how you contributed to it, you can learn a great lesson.
Jennifer’s Dad

Life is a journey during which you never stop learning about yourself and ultimately life itself, therefore there are no mistakes only opportunities to grow.
Jennifer’s Dad

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy

I hate women because they always know where things are.
James Thurber

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barry LePatner