"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week." - General George S. Patton "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." - Barry Goldwater "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." - Oscar Wilde "Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session." - Daniel Webster (1782-1852) "Everything now seems to be under federal control except the national debt and the budget." - Bob Goddard "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." - Ambrose Bierce "It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence." - Teddy Roosevelt (1897) "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." - Anatole France "All of the buildings/ All of those cars/ Were once just a dream/ In somebody's head." - Peter Gabriel "To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods." - Robert A. Heinlein "It is the triumph of reason to get on with those that have none." - Voltaire "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent which will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends & books." - Thomas Jefferson "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean de la Bruyère "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." - George William Curtis "Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?" - Bob Hope "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?" - Thomas Jefferson "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit." - James Madison "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." - Eric Hoffer "Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision." - Dick Armey "In hell, there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed." - Prof. Grant Gilmore "We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance." - Calvin Coolidge "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." - Pericles "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. Of such is wisdom." - William Butler Yeats "Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves." - Ovid “The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.” - Sen. Patrick Moynihan "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of check and balances [at '60 Minutes'] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing." - Jonathan Klein "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." - Henry Kissinger "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." - Thomas Jefferson "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit". - Albert Schweitzer "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson "A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them." – Hardy Amies