God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

—Daniel Webster

If everyone minded their own business… the world would go round a deal faster than it does

—Lewis Carroll

Give a man a horse he can ride,

Give a man a boat he can sail.

—James Thomson

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress

—Mark Twain

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I’m one of the intellectuals.

—Robert Emmet Sherwood

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns.

—Paul Joseph Goebbels

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate—that’s my philosophy

—Thornton Niven Wilder

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze,

The best yuh ever poured yuh,

But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes

For Hell’s broke loose in Georgia.

—Stephen Vincent Benet

If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

—Ernest Hemingway

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

—George Orwell

If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in writing.

—Kingsley Amis

When your neighbor’s wall is on fire, it becomes your business.

—Horace

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

He lied, I knew he lied and he knew I lied. That was diplomacy.

—Admiral William Kimball

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

—Malcolm X

Revolution is like one cocktail; it just gets you organized for the next

—Will Rogers

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.

—W. C. Fields

I became a policeman because I wanted to be in a business where the customer is always wrong.

—Unknown

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

—Tennessee Williams

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Give them enough food, give them enough arms , and the common people will have trust in you.

—Confucius

Who overcomes / By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

—John Milton

Yield, ye arms, to the toga.

—Cicero

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

—Roberto Rossellini

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

—Graham Greene

If I be wicked, woe unto me.

—Job 10:15