Quotes: Misc. Part 4

No matter how deep our darkness, [God] is deeper still. 

- Corrie ten Boom 

President Bush announced this week that he will be joining the rock group The Birds. He will play both the guitar and drums. It seems that a Bush in the band is worth two in the Birds. 

- Colin Mocrie, Who's Line Is It Anyway?

"Humanity is a great experience, and who is to say in America we are right and in Cuba they are wrong?" -- KEVIN COSTNER, asked about U.S.-Cuban relations before a special screening of his film "Thirteen Days," about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

As we relate Romans 13 to America, our Constitution is the higher power -- not the IRS tax code. 

- Greg A. Dixon, senior pastor of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple which was seized by the IRS

...there has been a fall in gun-related deaths since 1993. [Some say] that this fall is at least "partly" attributable to the Brady Law. The fact that the decline began a year or two before the law came into force is not referred to, nor is there any analysis of how many lives might be saved by the defensive use of guns. Similarly, there is plenty of focus on accidental death from firearms, but no mention of the fact that, between 1980 and the late 1990s this total fell by nearly a half, despite rapidly rising levels of gun ownership. Tragic though it is, the death toll from firearms accidents is smaller than that from drowning, burning, or even simply falling over. It is not much larger than the number who come to their end while engaged in recreational boating, and it is less than one-thirtieth of the total killed in motor vehicle accidents. 
- Doctor’s Orders, By Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, April 2001

Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell

The market is like your spouse: it knows more than you do and it is always right, even when it is dead wrong. 

- Mark Rostenko, The Sovereign Strategist

If I told you "everything I say is a lie" would you believe me?

I know of no Christianized country where your life is in danger because you are from another faith. But today there are many countries . . . such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran -- where to become a follower of Christ is to put your life . . . at risk. 

- Ravi Zacharias

The Romans drove spikes through the wrists and feet of Jesus -- spikes that traveled through the median nerves. This caused such enormous pain that a new word was invented to describe it: "excruciating." The word literally means "out of the cross." 

- Chuck Colson

Science is not value-free, because truth itself is a value. 

- Chuck Colson

Government can not give to the people that which it did not take already.
- Thomas Jefferson

Global warming localized: Most of the hot air is in Washington, DC.

Why do we assume that the government "represents" us when it exercises power over us, robs us of our wealth, and strips away our freedoms? 

- Joe Sobran

Apart from the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, we owe none of our basic freedoms to the U.S. Government. Those freedoms date from earlier times; some derive from Anglo-Saxon law, and many were incorporated into the U.S. Constitution. But since then, over more than two centuries, the federal government has been gradually constricting our freedoms. 

- Joe Sobran

An expert is a man who doesn't know all the answers but is sure that if he is given enough money, he can find them.

- Rex Fletcher 

Give them the third best to go with, the second best comes too late, and the best never comes. 

- Sir Watson Watt,  inventor of radar 

A general practitioner is a doctor who treats what you've got; a specialist is a doctor who finds you've got what he treats.

- Sydney J. Harris 

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower 

Creativity is the successful lie that a mistake you made was intentional. 

- Howard Higman 

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool, shun him. 
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is simple, teach him. 
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep, wake him. 
He who knows and knows that he knows is wise, follow him. - Old Arabian proverb 

He that makes himself an ass, must not take it ill if men ride him.

- Thomas Fuller 

The way to sell an idea to another is to state your case moderately and accurately. This causes your listener to be receptive and, like as not, he will turn about and convince you of the worth of your idea. But if you go at him in a tone of positiveness and arrogance, you are likely to turn him against your idea, no matter how good it is.

- Ben Franklin 

The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas.

- Linus Pauling 

People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

- Abraham Maslow 

If you're not failing every now and again it's a sign that you're not trying anything very innovative.

The lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which end we use the most.

- Ann Landers 

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes 

The government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens. 

- George Washington

What the public doesn't know about ecology would fill that mythical hole in the ozone layer. 

- Don Feder, WorldNetDaily

...the State’s use of redistributed wealth was the basis of its authority. The masses have always loved tax-funded bread and circuses. They surrender their liberty for the promise of continuing bread and circuses.

The libertarian says, "This bread is mine." The Christian says (or ought to say), "This bread is God’s, and He has delegated control over it, and responsibility for it, to me." 
- Gary North, LewRockwell.com

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
-Patrick Henry

What luck for rulers that men do not think. 

- Adolf Hitler

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. 

- George Washington 

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles A. Beard

If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it is free. - Anonymous

There's no government like no government. - Anonymous

Letting lawyers make laws is like making doctors make diseases. - Anonymous

In a democracy, two wolves and a sheep take a majority vote on what's for supper. In a constitutional republic, the wolves are forbidden on voting on what's for supper, and the sheep are well armed. - Anonymous

Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters ... but they mean to be masters. - Daniel Webster

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve. 
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey. 
I asked God for health, that I might do greater things. 
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. 
I asked God for riches, that I might be happy. 
I was given poverty, that I might be wise. 
I asked God for power, that I might have the praise of men. 
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God. 
I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life. 
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things. 
I got nothing that I asked for - but everything I had hoped for. 
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. 
I am among men, most richly blessed. -- Found on the body of a Confederate Soldier, whose identity is known but to God.

There are two kinds of fool, one who says "This is old and therefore good," and one who says, "This is new and therefore better."

"Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasury go dressed in gold and purple." 
- Marcus Porcius Cato - (Roman Statesman - 190 B.C.)

In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, 
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. 
Then they came for the Jews, 
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. 
Then they came for the trade unionists, 
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. 
Then they came for the Catholics, 
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. 
Then they came for me, 
and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.
- Rev. Martin Niemoeller (sent to Dachau, 1938) 

We're expected to support everything from reformulated gas to tax cuts "for the good of the children." Yet, staying together for the sake of those same kids is, by today's standards, too much to ask. - Chuck Colson

What if Patrick Henry said, "Listen, I'm for liberty, but let's be realistic. We're a small outfit. If we try to push the Redcoats around, someone is going to get hurt."

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he who undervalues others will suppress them. - Samuel Johnson 

Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. 

- John Adams, June 21, 1776

Benjamin Franklin, in July of 1776, was appointed part of a committee to draft a seal for the newly united states which would characterize the spirit of this new nation. He proposed: Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: 'Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.'

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. 

- Patrick Henry

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

- Patrick Henry

It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. - Patrick Henry

We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts--not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln

We could adopt a better approach to crime by showing criminals the same kind of mercy that they show their victims. 

- Walter E. Williams

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. - Montaigne

Ain't no problem so bad that the government can't make worse.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
-Thomas Jefferson

It is arrogant to use the constitution as the Founding Fathers intended it. It must be interpreted in light of current problems and current needs.
- Supreme Court Justice William Brennen

If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments, [and concluded that such] is not a permissible state objective under the Establishment Clause. 
- Supreme Court decision, 1980, Stone v. Graham

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished. - George Orwell, "1984"

Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves.

I do not believe that the power and duty of the general Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering. ... A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power should, I think, be steadfastly resisted. ... Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our National character. 

- President Grover Cleveland in response to a bill by Congress that would have used tax dollars for drought relief in Texas

The chief virtue of limited government is that such limitation amounts to a limitation of gross stupidity.

- J.R. Nyquist

While it is true that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, it is more correct to say that power makes stupid, and absolute power makes absolutely stupid. 

- J.R. Nyquist

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most fearful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside of a man's own reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines. 

- William Graham Sumner

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. -George Orwell, 1984

"Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." - The Revised 10 Commandments

The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everyone else. 

- Frederic Bastiat 

Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain – and since labor is pain in itself – it follows that man will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. 

- Frederic Bastiat

When law and morality contradict one another, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his sense of morality or losing his respect for the law. 

- Frederic Bastiat

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. 

- Albert Einstein

The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants. 

- Albert Camus

Men cannot make principles, he can only discover them. 

-Thomas Paine

The 'wall of separation between church and State' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. 
- Associate Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist, Wallace vs. Jaffree, 1984

Seven blunders of the world lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. 

- Gandhi

...in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin, 1789 
...but death only comes once
At least there is one advantage in death, it does not get worse every time Congress meets.

Cowering illegals benevolently granted legality, while they may express their gratitude at the voting booth to their ruling masters, are an anathema to a free society. 

- Craige McMillan

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk. 

- Bertolt Brecht

Gun Quotes:
- An armed American is a citizen; an unarmed American is a subject. 
- A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone. 
- Smith & Wesson: The original point-and-click interface. 
- If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words. 
- If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson. 
- If guns cause accidents, then accidents cause drunk driving. 
- Free people do not have to ask permission to be armed. 
- The government of a free people is not expected to "grant" such permission. 
- If you don't know your rights, you don't have any. 
- Here's a news headline you'll never see: "85 Million Gun Owners Killed No One Today" 
- Guns only have two enemies – rust and politicians. 
- You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive. 
- "911" – government-sponsored "Dial-A-Prayer" 
- Assault is a behavior, not a device. 
- Criminals love a disarmed society; it makes their job easier. 
- Only a government that is afraid of its citizens would try to control them. 
- When you remove "the right to keep and bear arms," you create slaves. 
- The American Revolution would never have happened if the colonists succumbed to gun control. 

I'm not a gun-rights supporter because I want to cause murder and mayhem anymore than I'm an automobile owner because I want to cause a traffic accident. 

- Jon Dougherty

In their rush to fill up the big tent, moderate Republicans have forgotten that once you've identified yourself as a whore – all that's left is to discuss the price. 

- Craige McMillan

"fair" is a place where people compare pigs before the slaughter.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
--Steven Biko 

the plural of anecdotes isn't data

correlation isn't the same as causation

Our government has acquired the nasty habit of pursuing our happiness for us.

Once you fuzz the line of where life begins, you have lost the entire argument for the sanctity of human life

Not only do the weak need the strong, but the strong need the weak. 

- Bonhoffer

academia nuts

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

I always thought they should put the wrapper on the inside of the straw since that's the part you don't want to get dirty.

If we are senior citizens, do we vote for "free prescription drugs," even if we know that the money to pay for them will come not only from Bill Gates' pocket -- but from the struggling single mother who lives just down the block, and has recently started attending our church, wondering "what is different" about these Christians? 

- Craige McMillan

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. 

- Thomas Jefferson, 1779

If having the most knowledge were the key to stock market success, then the richest people would probably be the librarians. 

- Warren Buffett 

Liberal Democrats seem to be guided by a worldview that sees man as perfectible and government as the primary change-agent. 

- David Limbaugh

Lobbyists exist because government has power and money for which to lobby. ...
As long as government has soup, the orphans (and everyone else) will clamor at the cauldron. 

- Joe Miller, WND

Deficits and the national debt skyrocket during Democrat administrations because they spend like drunken sailors. Oh, sorry, drunken sailors. I don't know what came over me. I wouldn't insult anybody by equating them with liberal Democrats in Congress.
- Rush Limbaugh

The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'

- Harry Browne

There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.

- Douglas Macarthur

Worldview questions
Creation-- where did we come from? 
Fall -- what's wrong with the world? Why is there evil and suffering? 
Redemption -- how can it be fixed? How can we create a better world?

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: 
From Bondage to Spiritual Faith 
From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage 
From Courage to Liberty 
From Liberty to Abundance 
From Abundance to Selfishness 
From Selfishness to Complacency 
From Complacency to Apathy 
From Apathy to Dependency 
From Dependency back into Bondage"
- Alexander Tytler "Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic"

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.

- H.L. Mencken 

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it. 

- Doug Casey

Why should what they do in their bedroom be more important than what I do in my church? 

- Craige McMillan

I learn my lines, show up ... it's nothing to be taken seriously, or have any significance. I'm just a stupid actor. 

- Anthony Hopkins

Americans need to re-learn that the nanny state, first and foremost, takes care of itself. 

- Craige McMillan

Congress is in the lawmaking business, and business is booming. 

- Craige McMillan

I'm a freedom fighter. You're a rebel. He's a terrorist.

We live in a sinful and fallen world, and God does not shield us from the effects of our choices and actions. 

- Craige McMillan

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form. 

- Calvin Coolidge, 1925 inaugural address

Experience keeps a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other. 

- Benjamin Franklin

With malice towards none... with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan-- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. 

- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865 

Ideas always have consequences. And ideas are expressed in words. 

- Chuck Colson

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. 

- Chuck Baldwin

At last count, the death toll from all the bombings and crashes is nearly 7,000. 
That's less than two days' work at America's abortion clinics. 

- Thomas L. Jipping

Why should Americans be tempted to trust government bureaucrats and agencies with protecting the information of 285 million people when it cannot even protect its own nuclear weapons secrets? 

- Jon Dougherty

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way you may as well not say it at all, because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them. 

- George Bernard Shaw

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. 

- Thomas Jefferson (1807)

They terrify lest they should fear. 

- Tacitus

We have met the enemy and he is us. 

- Walt Kelly (1913-1973), American cartoonist and social commentator.

The tinier the matter you can take offense at, the more refined your sympathies for the accredited victim classes. 

- Joseph Sobran

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

- Bernard DeFoutenelle

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

- Will Rogers

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty ... Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and a terrible master. 

- George Washington

George HW Bush: "Bush the Kinder-Gentler"
George W Bush: "Bush the Compassionate"

I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. 

- General George S. Patton, June, 1944

Muslim extremists... use their focus on "the Jewish question" in precisely the same way the Nazis did: as a means of conveniently oversimplifying their cause, and hiding its true menace to the very foundations of Western society. Like Hitler, the Islamic militants don't want to alter our civilization, they want to obliterate it. They don't dream that America will change, they yearn for America to die. 

- Michael Medved

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln

There are certain forms of stupidity that one has to be highly intelligent and educated to commit. 

- Dr. J. Budziszewski, former atheist

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. 

- George Orwell

The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.
-H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

Burying your head in the sand to avoid unpleasant facts still leaves a large, prominent part of your anatomy exposed to impact with the truth.
- Craige McMillan

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Saint-Exupery_Antoine_de 

I used to say that Politics is the second oldest profession, but I have come to realize that it bears a gross similarity to the first. 

- Ronald Reagan

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment of private judgement, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29 of May 1874 on Campden Hill, Kensington. 
- G.K. Chesterton, in his autobiography

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. - Steven Wright

When the mass media in some foreign countries serve as megaphones for the rhetoric of their government, the result is ludicrous propaganda. When the mass media in our country serve as megaphones for the rhetoric of the U.S. government, the result is responsible journalism. 

- Norman Solomon

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
-Max Stirner

Governments know nothing about making money - they are only good at stealing it.

The only element in the universe more common than hydrogen is stupidity. 
- Albert Einstein 

He is now an indelible part of the earth. Much like the oxygen atoms that Jesus breathed on the Cross. The ones he expelled when he uttered, "It is finished." The very ones you and I still occasionally inhale and exhale as we go about our daily lives.
- Craige McMillan on the death of George Harrison

May those who love us love us,
And may God turn the hearts of those who don't.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles,
So we may recognize them by their limping.
- Gaelic prayer (paraphrased)

The utopianism inherent in Islam -- or any system that believes human beings are perfectible through force or law -- is at odds with the Western traditions of religious freedom, tolerance, and freedom of conscience inherited from Christianity. 

- Chuck Colson

The five most dangerous words in the English language are "There oughta be a law."

Is there any reasonable person in America today who would argue that while he personally opposed the enslavement of blacks, he wouldn’t oppose the legal right of his neighbor to own one if he so chose?

When arguing with a stupid person, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.

No government program can solve a problem caused by government's participation. 

- Harry Browne

A job is the biggest killer of financial Freedom
What is yours costing you?

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold. 

- Walter Williams

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

- Mahatma Ghandi

"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don’t own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet." 

- Lyle Myhr

By definition, charity is not a government program. Let's face it. Government represents force, coercion. None of us voluntarily gives our money to the federal government. Washington extracts it from us, at the point of a gun, if necessary. Charity, however, is voluntary. You can't force someone to be charitable – it's a contradiction in terms. 

- Joseph Farah

The authors challenge the key contradiction at the heart of the Kyoto Protocol, the global climate agreement - that climate is one of the most complex systems known, yet that we can manage it by trying to control a small set of factors, namely greenhouse gas emissions. Scientifically, this is not mere uncertainty: it is a lie.
- Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of London

Very often, it is not wrong at all to kill a child once it has left the womb. Simply killing an infant is never equivalent to killing a person.
- Dr. Peter Singer, "bioethicist" and Professor at Princeton University. 

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.
- Essay "The Knife Went In," in the book "Life at the Bottom: The worldview that makes the underclass," by Theodore Dalrymple (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2001)

the term "heterosexual" is a propagandistic exercise in psycholinguistics, designed to create a false symmetry in the minds of those who hear it.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. 

- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

The world is not the way they tell you it is. 

- Adam Smith

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. 

- George Orwell

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. 

- Aubrey T. DeVera

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question. 

- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. 

- Hanlon's Razor

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. 
… The first is a patron, the last a punisher. 

- Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" 

It's not who is right or wrong but what is right or wrong that matters. 

- Geoff Metcalf

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. 

- Frederick Douglass 

In 1999, the richest 1 percent of Americans took in 19.5 percent of the income but paid 36.2 percent of the taxes. 
The top 5 percent, who made 34 percent of the money but paid 55 percent of the taxes.
The top 25 percent of income earners pay a whopping 83.5 percent of U.S. taxes.
The bottom half of income earners — that's 50 percent of all taxpayers — bear just 4 percent of the tax burden, while earning 13 percent of the income.

The State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper 28 

There is a constituency in the Congress that sees the tax code as a way 
to do favors for people which is a way to get elected that's not as obvious 
as actually writing them a check from the American people.

- U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill 

It's gibberish. It really is shameful.

- U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, speaking of the U.S. Tax code

Our government is supposed to serve the greatest good for the greatest number.
- Christopher Reeve, testifying at the U.S. Senate on embryonic cloning and stem cell research

(Right Christopher, just like the greatest number of Germans were served by solving the "Jewish problem")

Our government is not supposed to serve the greatest good for the greatest number. 
Totalitarian governments are supposed to do that. Our government is supposed to protect the vulnerable INDIVIDUAL from the rich and powerful who may find it expedient to forget his or her dignity.
- Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops

President Clinton: "Beelzebubba"

Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for. 

- Milton Friedman

CHILDREN: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk.
Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut-up.

We child-proofed our home 3 years ago and they're still getting in!

Judges have an exaggerated view of their role in our polity. 
- former Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White ("Wizzer")

I regret that I have but 100% of my income to give to my country. 

- Craig Bedward

When the Republicans are in power, man exploits man. 
When Democrats are in power, its the other way around.

Government is covetousness in concentrate. It's a tool for folks to get things they don't deserve by sometimes noble-looking, but usually nefarious means – i.e., coercion. 

- Joel Miller

Americans don't need black-robed justices divining the meaning of the Constitution.
- Joseph Farah