Quote of the Day

[FOsteology]

Oh, but interminable, stentorian screeds of exemplary erudition are exhilarating! I shall not succumb to the barbarous boorishness of an existence without such sesquipedalian delights.

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"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." - William F. Buckley, Jr.

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"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell

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

[coyote101]

"The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution." - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

[coyote101]

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Robert Darwin

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"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." - Frederic Bastiat

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"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." - Laurence J. Peter

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"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens." - William Beveridge

[coyote101]

"The way to a man's heart is through his chest." - Unknown

[coyote101]

"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions." - Ted Koppel

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"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Winston Churchill

[coyote101]

"Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children." - President George W. Bush

[coyote101]

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." - Benjamin Franklin

[coyote101]

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott

[coyote101]

"Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter." - Unknown

[coyote101]

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci

[coyote101]

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

[coyote101]

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin

[coyote101]

"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss." - Alanis Morissette