Quotes

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
                             --Robert Frost, 1935

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
                             --George Bernard Shaw

Man is free, but not if he does not believe it.
                             --Giacamo Girlamo Cassanova de Seingalt

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 practice either of them.
                             --Mark Twain, 1897

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
                             --John Kenneth Galbraith

It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make horse races.
                             --Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
                             --Abraham Lincoln

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
                             --John F. Kennedy

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
                             --Voltaire

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
                             --Thomas Paine

What the American public doesn't know is exactly what makes them the American public.
                             --Dan Akroyd in _Tommy Boy_

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
                             --John Ciardi

The ballot is stronger than the bullet
                             --Abraham Lincoln, 1856

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
                             --Fisher Ames (1758-1808)

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
                             --Benjamin Franklin, 1783

Have you ever wondered if taxation without representation was cheaper?
                             --Unknown

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.
                             --Kierkegaard

Pro is to con as progress is to congress.
                             --Unknown

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
                             --John Locke (1632-1704)

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate.
                             --Eric Idle

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
                             --Herbert Hoover, 1944

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
                             --Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

Stupid is as stupid does, sir!
                             --Tom Hanks, in _Forrest Gump

I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
                             --Eleanor Roosevelt

We think so because other people all think so, Or because -- or because -- after all we do think so, Or because we were told so and think we must think so, Or because we once thought so, and think we should still think so, Or because having thought so, we think we WILL think so.
                             --Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900)

A political war is one in which everyone shoots from the lip.
                             --Raymond Moley

There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or neither.
                             --Ramsey Clark

Whereever PUBLIC spirit prevails, liberty is secure.
                             --Noah Webster (1758-1843)

This country has come to feel the same when congress is in session as when a baby gets hold of a hammer.
                             --Will Rogers

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
                             --Tom Hayden

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
                             --Will Rogers

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen,not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
                             --Hubert H. Humphrey

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
                             --Justice William O. Douglas

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world it's own shame.
                             --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)