My Favorite Quotes:

• Better keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid then open it and remove any doubt.
  Rami Belson
  
  
• Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.
  Gene Brown
  
  
• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
  Charles Dickens, opening line of A Tale of Two Cities
  
  
• They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
  Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
  
  
• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
  Galileo Galilei
  
  
• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
  Thomas Jefferson, original draft of Declaration of Independence, 1776. Papers, 1:315
  
  
• The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.
  Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:57
  
  
• Lethargy [is] the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
  Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787
  
  
• You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
  Lyndon Johnson
  
  
• The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
  Justice Anthony Kennedy
  
  
• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
  John Maynard Keynes
  
  
• I have seen the science I worshiped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
  Charles Lindbergh
  
  
• I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.
  Groucho Marx (Attributed)
  
  
• Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honour; which is probably more than she ever did.
  Groucho Marx (Duck Soup)
  
  
• I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
  Groucho Marx
  
  
• A friend is someone who will help you move; a GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body.
  Groucho Marx
  
  
• 'How do you feel about women's rights?' 'I like either side of them.'
  Groucho Marx
  
  
• Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
  Groucho Marx
  
  
• Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
  H. L. Mencken
  
  
• 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.
  H. L. Mencken
  
  
• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
  John Muir
  
  
• Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
  Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) (1920-) b. Wadowice, Poland
  
  
• Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
  Will Rogers
  
  
• The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
  Theodore Roosevelt
  
  
• A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
  Adlai Stevenson
  
  
• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
  Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  
  
• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.
  Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar (1894)
  
  
• Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
  Unknown
  
  
• To the world you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.
  Unknown
  
  
• You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
  Booker T. Washington
  
  
• A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
  Mae West