27 March, 2006 - 5:33 A.M.

"A promise must never be broken."--Alexander Hamilton

"The world is not the way they tell you it is."-Adam Smith

"See, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want us to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!"

"When you see evil, especially when it wears a smiling and angelic face, you must call it out. And you must deal with the consequences of calling it out, which can be bad. Because the consequences of not calling it out could be infinitely worse."-John Kessel

"The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are -- as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy."-Unknown

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."-Krishnamurti

"We have to tolerate things that we don't necessarily like, so we can be free. Free press is not just freedom for the thought you love, but freedom for the thought you hate."-Larry Flynt

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."-President George Washington

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."-Carl Jung

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."--Jiddu Krishnamurti

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."-No�l Coward"

"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character."-Henry Rollins

"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"-Jack Kerouac

"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."-Joseph Campbell

"No qualification of wealth, of birth, of religious faith, or civil profession, is permitted to fetter the judgment or disappoint the inclination of the people."-Alexander Hamilton

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated in quotations."--Benjamin Disraeli

"Now, when someone criticizes the government, I don't view them as unpatriotic. The Founding Fathers' spirit is alive in each protest."-Barbara Revere Kaye,the great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Paul Revere

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."-Martin Luther King Jr.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If you think the US is in trouble and you go back and vote Democratic or Republican, just like you've always done. Then thinking that your going to fix it, you are insane. You are crazy. If you want things to be different, then you have to do something different."--Libertarian Michael Badnarik

"If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky, That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds."-Robert Oppenheimer reading from The Bhagavad-Gita at the detonation of the worlds 1st nuclear device at the Trinity site in southern New Mexico July 16, 1945

"Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up. Here is..."-from TAXI DRIVER

"If the first scene doesn't give you a hard-on then throw the goddamn thing away."-Samuel Fuller

"We can't trust the government to fill potholes, yet we allow them to execute people."-Helen Prejean

"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way: government, society, and even the sun, moon and stars."-Henry David Thoreau

"You must become your own hero."-Richard Hell

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."-Noam Chomsky

"We must become the change we want to see."-Gandhi

"Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices � taking advantage of our freedom of speech � who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do."-Nat Hentoff

"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you."--Marian Wright Edelman

"Thomas Jefferson said he trembled for this country when he reflected that God was just and that his justice could not sleep forever. Well, the day that these presidents feared has now come to pass."-Minister Louis Farrakhan

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."-John Wooden

"In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly."-Eleanor Roosevelt

�People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.�-Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."-Joseph Campbell

"Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."-President John Quincy Adams

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."--Buddha

It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me."-Jim Carroll

"The imagery of mythology is symbolic of spiritual powers within us: when these are interpreted as referring to historical or natural events which science in turn shows could not have occurred, then you throw the whole thing out. You see, myths do not come from a concept system; they come from a life system; they come out of a deeper center. We must not confuse mythology with ideology. Myths come from where the heart is, and where the experience is... The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact."-Joseph Campbell

"Religions are all alike -- founded on fables and mythologies."--President Thomas Jefferson

"Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them."-J. Krishnamurti

"Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute."-Joseph Campbell

"One person can make a difference and every person should try."--President John F. Kennedy

"I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best."-Hakeem Olajuwon

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."--Microsoft Founder Bill Gates

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."--Leo Tolstoy

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."-Alexander Hamilton

"Jefferson believed in the inherent goodness of mankind. Hamilton loved man, and did more than anyone to improve man's lot, but he did not believe that a community of men, left to their own devices, was inherently trustworthy. History has proven Hamilton right and Jefferson wrong."-Ron Chernow

"We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army. And they call me an assasin. What do you call it when the assasins accuse the assasin?"-Colonel Kurtz from APOCALYPSE NOW

God says, "Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours."--Ann Coulter

"It is not at all wrong for humans to use nature to make useful things, but we must not exploit nature unnecessarily...Too much consumption or effort to make money is no good."--Dalai Lama

"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."--Albert Schweitzer.

�As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery� we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.�-Dalai Lama

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."--President Theodore Roosevelt

"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."--Jonathan Swift

"Our Declaration of Independence has been copies by emerging nations around the globe, its themes adopted in places many of us have never heard of. Here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights. We the people declared that government is created by the people for their own convenience. Government has no power except those voluntarily granted it by the people. There have been revolutions before and since ours, revolutions that simply exchanged one set of rulers for another. Ours was a philosophical revolution that changed the very concept of government."--President Ronald Reagan

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go around repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence."--Charles Austin Beard

"If America were governed by those who want to return to constitutional principles, and the foreign policy of the Founding Fathers, the rise of market nationalism from Belgrade to Tokyo and points in between would be seen as a good sign, the final proof that the Founders were right in their vision of America as the inspiration of all, and the master of none. But we aren't being governed by Thomas Jefferson or his latter-day equivalents, I hasten to remind you: George W. Bush isn't even close."--Justin Raimondo

"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families.... How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?"--President John Adams

"Let's say I go out every night, I meet a guy and have sex with him. Good for me. I'm not married."-Ann Coulter

"I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids."--Trey Parker & Matt Stone

"Cheney is my ideal man. Because he�s solid. He�s funny. He�s very handsome. He was a football player. People don�t think about him as the glamour type because he�s a serious person, he wears glasses, he�s lost his hair. But he�s a very handsome man. And you cannot imagine him losing his temper, which I find extremely sexy. Men who get upset and lose their tempers and claim to be sensitive males: talk about girly boys. No, there�s a reason hurricanes are named after women and homosexual men, it�s one of our little methods of social control. We�re supposed to fly off the handle. "They are supposed to be rock-solid men. Dick Cheney exudes that. Can you imagine him yelling at Lynne Cheney? No. Every female I know finds that so incredibly attractive."-Ann Coulter

"Go fuck yourself!"--Vice President Dick Cheney

"she (Ann Coulter) just wants to fuck her dad. seriously."--Lauralgood

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."--Adolf Hitler

"The greatest challenge we face is also our greatest opportunity. Can we fulfill the promise of America by embracing all our citizens of all races? Can we become one America in the 21st century? Money cannot buy this goal, power cannot compel it, technology cannot create it. This is something that can come only from the human spirit."--President Bill Clinton

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."--Noam Chomsky

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."--President George Washington

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."--President George Washington

The "anti-terrorism" legislation (the PATRIOT ACT) recently passed by Congress demonstrates how well-meaning politicians make shortsighted mistakes in a rush to respond to a crisis. Most of its provisions were never carefully studied by Congress, nor was sufficient time taken to debate the bill despite its importance. No testimony was heard from privacy experts or from others fields outside of law enforcement. Normal congressional committee and hearing processes were suspended. In fact, the final version of the bill was not even made available to Members before the vote! The American public should not tolerate these political games, especially when our precious freedoms are at stake. The threats to liberty seem endless. It seems we have forgotten to target the enemy. Instead we have inadvertently targeted the rights of American citizens. The crisis has offered a good opportunity for those who have argued all along for bigger government.�Representative Ron Paul

"Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free."- Alexander Hamilton

"The battle has moved to inside America....I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. Government will lead the American people � and the West in general � into an unbearable hell and a choking life."-Osama bin Laden, after 9-11

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."<-President James Madison

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin

"The people never give up their liberty but under some delusion."-Edmund Burke

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure."-Albert Einstein

"Let it be remembered that civil liberty consists, not in a right to every man to do just what he pleases, but it consists in an equal right to all citizens to have, enjoy, and do, in peace, security and without molestation, whatever the equal and constitutional laws of the country admit to be consistent with the public good."-Governor of New York/1st Chief Justice of US Supreme Court/President John Jay

"I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."-Robert Heinlein

"We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real Liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of dictatorship."-Alexander Hamilton

"If a nation or an individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too."-W. Somerset Maugham

"If Big Brother comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos & foreign threat and gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed."-Michael Parenti

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation."-President James Madison

"Ideological infiltrations by al Qaeda would not inflame Islamic opinion and further radicalize Muslim youth into heightened hatred of America in the way invading Iraq has done. We and our values needed to be more appealing to Muslims than al Qaeda is. Far from addressing the popular appeal of the enemy that attacked us, Bush handed that enemy precisely what it wanted and needed, proof that America was at war with Islam, that we were the new Crusaders come to occupy Muslim land."-counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."-President George W. Bush

"Don't ever think you know what's right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what's right for you."-Paul Williams

"The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy."-Representative Fisher Ames

"I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her."-Gandhi

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."-Pat Robertson

"I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional."-Michael Savage

"I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote. No, they all have to give up their vote, not just, you know, the lady clapping and me. The problem with women voting -- and your Communists will back me up on this -- is that, you know, women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it. And when they take these polls, it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care."-Ann Coulter

"It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into laws."-Thomas Sowell

"We will not tolerate the rights of the American people. A free American people will not be in the future."-Attorney General John Ashcroft

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws."-Ayn Rand

"Attorney General John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy."-Gov. Howard Dean

"We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time."-Sen John Kerry

"Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold."-Walter Williams

"It is also laugh-out-loud funny to hear Rush Limbaugh complain about police having access to his medical and bank records. At one time, such records were considered private. But no longer. Any time they want, police can now snoop into our bank and medical affairs, as well as our e-mail, credit card accounts and library books. It's all part of John Ashcroft's Patriot Act � which Limbaugh gleefully supported."-Bill Press

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."-President Abraham Lincoln

"If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws."-Alexander Hamilton

"The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern."-Vice Preseident/Senator John C. Calhoun

"The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice."-Thomas Sowell

"Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasury go dressed in gold and purple."-Marcus Porcius Cato (Roman Statesman - 190 B.C.)

"There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore."-Pat Robertson

"I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal of conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road."-President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs."-Rep. Ron Paul

"In the Founding Fathers� minds, the person who was ambitious and wanted high office was the one person you should never trust with it."-Yale Prof. JoAnne Freeman

"If you were in prison and you had a 50% choice of lethal injection, a 45% chance of going to the electric chair and only a 5% chance of escape, are you likely to vote for lethal injection because that is your most likely outcome? If you continue to vote for the Democrats or the Republicans, you are committing political suicide."-Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik

�What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporation's side. And the bureaucrats in the administration don't think the government belongs to the people.��Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."-Noam Chomsky

"Public speaking is very easy."-President George W. Bush

"One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence."-Thomas Sowell

"Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."

"There's an old saying in Tennessee � I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee � that says, fool me once, shame on� shame on you. Fool me � you can't get fooled again."-President George W. Bush

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."-President Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."-President George W. Bush

"No one nation has a right to sit in judgment over another."-President Thomas Jefferson

�The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.�-Nelson Mandela

"Here -- here`s why not on the war. You say there were three rationales -- weapons of mass destruction, complicity and imminence of the threat. You admit that you were wrong about all three, you admit that. But you say the war is justified anyway. Why? Because you wanted to take down Saddam who was a bad man. So you`re saying you`re going to justify the loss of 850 Americans, thousands of innocent Iraqis, the loss of $150 billion, the loss of the respect of much of the world, and you`re saying that would justify your doing it again. If you had a similar situation, a dictator who was a tyrant, there are plenty of them. In Africa, in Syria, in Korea, God forbid, North Korea you ever get it in your head, but that same rationale you gave me."-Gov Mario Cuomo

"The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution."-Alexander Hamilton

"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself."-President George W. Bush

"The constitutions of most of our states [and of the United States] assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press."--President Thomas Jefferson

"I think, on the basis of the recent Supreme Court ruling that we can't execute the retarded, American journalists commit mass murder without facing the ultimate penalty. I think they are retarded. I'm trying to communicate to the American people and I have to work through a retarded person!"-Ann Coulter

Man may purposely, consciously choose for himself even the harmful and the stupid, even the stupidest thing -- just so that he will have the right to wish the stupidest thing, and not be bound by the duty to have only intelligent wishes. For this most stupid thing, this whim of ours, gentlemen may really be more advantageous to us than anything on earth, especially in certain cases. In fact, it may be the most advantageous of all advantages even when it brings us obvious harm and contradicts the most sensible conclusions of our reason concerning our advantage. Because, at any rate, it preserves for us the most important and most precious thing -- our personality, our individuality."-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others- with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means."-Henry Grady Weaver

"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill."-�President George W. Bush

"Did I expect George W. Bush to FUCK it up as badly as he did? I don't think ANYBODY did."-Senator John Kerry

"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that George Bush may or may not make."-President George W. Bush

"September 11th was a story of improvised, frontline heroics by ordinary American citizens, and of panic and confusion on the part of the federal government, which had ignored and even suppressed critical intelligence prior to the attack. There�s no basis for believing that the federal government should be entrusted with supervisory authority over all our multilayered defenses against terrorist attack, and every reason to believe that state and local "first responders," free of federal interference, will do a better job every time."-Steve Bonta

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."--President Dwight Eisenhower

"Arab Terrorism", Americans have been assaulted for years by images of Arabs committing terrorist acts. Ignorant of the history of the region, they cannot understand the Arab terrorism has been a reaction to Israeli terrorism--its ethnic cleansing of Palestine and its apartheid regime."-Henrey Lindner

"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."-Thomas Sowell

"As to the position that "the people always mean well," that they always mean to say and do what they believe to be right and just � it may be popular, but it can not be true. The word people applies to all the individual inhabitants of a country. . . . That portion of them who individually mean well never was, nor until the millennium will be, considerable. Pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication and with it a thousand pranks and fooleries. I do not expect mankind will, before the millennium, be what they ought to be and therefore, in my opinion, every political theory which does not regard them as being what they are, will prove abortive. Yet I wish to see all unjust and unnecessary discriminations everywhere abolished, and that the time may come when all our inhabitants of every color and discrimination shall be free and equal partakers of our political liberties."--Governor of New York/1st Chief Justice of US Supreme Court/President John Jay

"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors."-Ann Coulter,Her words were applauded by National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, Surgeon General Tommy Thompson, and Lynne Cheney (wife of Vice President Cheney), all of whom were in attendance at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism, because it is a merger of State and corporate power."-Benito Mussolini

"There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily -- are a different color than white can self-govern."-President George W. Bush

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."--Ayn Rand

"...we have got to accept Big Government for the duration � for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores...."-William F. Buckley Jr

"Ever since I can remember, I�ve been a neo-something: a neo-Marxist, a neo-Trotskyist, a neo-liberal, a neo-conservative; in religion a neo-orthodox even while I was a neo-Trotskyist and a neo-Marxist. I�m going to end up a neo- that�s all, neo dash nothing."-Irving Kristol,Widely considered to be a key founder of the neoconservative movement

"A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves."-Bertrand de Juvenal

"Strictly speaking, it probably is not "necessary" for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that would be too bold a stroke, for it would then be obvious to all what kind of counterfeiting operation the government is running. The present system combining taxation and inflation is akin to watering the milk; too much water and the people catch on."-Rep. Ron Paul

"A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left � which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right � which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries."--Karl Hess

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."-Josef Stalin

"Those who reply to the polls decide nothing. Those who take the polls decide everything."-Alan R. Adaschik

"We�ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th [attacks]."-President George Bush,September 17, 2003

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and ontrolled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."-Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC

"There is no power like that of true oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished with its author; that of the other continues to this day."-Senator Henry Clay

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Congress could pass a law tomorrow requiring that all aliens from Arabic countries leave...-Ann Coulter

"If a nation expects to be ignorant � and free � in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."-President Thomas Jefferson

"People in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place. They assign us that place; they don't let us do it ourselves nor will they allow us a voice in the decision. They will not allow that we have a head to think and a heart to feel and a soul to aspire....That's the way we are liked. You degrade us, and then ask why we are degraded--you shut our mouths and then ask why we don't speak--you close your colleges and seminaries against us, and then ask why we don't know more."-Frederick Douglass

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."-President James Madison

"Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood."-Gandhi

"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot."-playwright Eugene O'Neill

"Young girl? Hey! Hello! Young lady! I'm preaching, sweetheart. Sit down. Mama, this is not your house. This is the house of the Lord. Keep that child seated. We reverence the anointing here. I take what I do seriously. I don't play games with it. You sit there listening to me. Don't move out of your seat unless you're dying! And if you're dying, you can't move anyways."-Benny Hinn

"But as George Bush said: You are with the terrorists or you are with America. Now we're getting a pretty clear picture of who is with the terrorists. As George Patton said, I like when the enemy shoots at me; then I know where the bastards are and can kill them."--Ann Coulter

"I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that."-Britney Spears

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--President Theodore Roosevelt

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'--President Ronald Reagan

"We need a common enemy to unite us."-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice

"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."-President John F. Kennedy

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."-Britney Spears

"If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates, but let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."-President George Washington

"President George W. Bush, remarks after meeting with New York City Police Commissioner, October 3, 2003: Yes, I don�t make decisions based upon polls. I make decisions based upon what I think is important for the security of the American people.� Sometimes the American people like the decisions I make, sometimes they don�t. But they need to know I�ll make tough decisions based upon what I think is right, given the intelligence that I know, in order to do my job, which is secure this country, and to bring peace." President Bush�s statement is based upon the falsehood that presidents have the authority under the U.S. Constitution to bring the United States into war. Yet the Constitution explicitly states that "Congress shall have the power � to declare war" (Article I, Section 8). Congress is also solely charged in that same section with the power "to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces."-Thomas R. Eddlem

"The Constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It [the Constitution] has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature."-President James Madison

"The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the land and naval forces, as first general and admiral � while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies � all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature."-Alexander Hamilton

"[An] act of the Congress of the United States. . . which assumes powers. . . not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force."-President Thomas Jefferson

"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature.... If the next centennial does not find us a great nation ... it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces."-President James Garfield

"The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing."-President Theodore Roosevelt

"The true principle of government is this � make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and the powers you give it will never affect your security."-Alexander Hamilton

"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master."-President Dwight Eisenhower

"Once enough of us decide we�ve had enough of all these so-called good things that the government is always promising�or more likely, when the country is broke and the government is unable to fulfill its promises to the people�we can start a serious discussion on the proper role for government in a free society. Unfortunately, it will be some time before Congress gets the message that the people are demanding true reform. This requires that those responsible for today�s problems are exposed and their philosophy of pervasive government intrusion is rejected. Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it�s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy. A few have, and others will continue to do so, but too many�both in and out of government�close their eyes to the issue of personal liberty and ignore the fact that endless borrowing to finance endless demands cannot be sustained. True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society."-Rep. Ron Paul

"Government is not the solution to the problem; government IS the problem!"-President Ronald Reagan

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."-President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people."-President John F. Kennedy

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."-President Thomas Jefferson

"Most of us -- if not all of us -- are grossly incompetent at other people's jobs. That is why it is so dangerous to have politicians telling doctors, farmers, bankers, entrepreneurs and others what to do."-Thomas Sowell

"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere anymore, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."-Robert Bork

"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."-President George Washington"

It was as if we had no protection at all. In view of the ease with which these attacks got through, the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency might as well have not existed."--James Kallstrom, the now retired head of the New York FBI who led the investigation into the 1993 World Trade Center attack

"I could hardly believe it, but Wolfowitz was actually spouting the totally discredited theory that Iraq was behind the 1993 truck bomb at the World Trade Center, a theory that had been investigated for years & found to be totally untrue. I had a flashback to Wolfowitz saying the very same thing in April. The focus on al Qaeda was wrong, he had said, we must go after Iraqi-sponsored terrorism.�-counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke

"History has well substantiated the fact that, under the right conditions, fallen and foolish man has always given up independance and freedom, for even the illusion of peace and security. If society's great international architects can manufacture the precise conditions, as in their adventures in Europe, all vestiges of freedom will fall in America."-Samuel Webster

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency ... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."-General Douglas MacArthur

�General Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.�

"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."-Senator Daniel Webster

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."-Thomas Paine

"However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties."-Alexander Hamilton

"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government."--Tacitus

"I think we had enough laws about the turn-of-the-century. We don't need any more." Asked how far back would she go to repeal laws, she replied, "Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start."-Ann Coulter

"You dislike the Emancipation Proclamation, and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional -- I think differently. But the Proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life."-President Abraham Lincoln

�All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.�-Dalai Lama

�As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master � This expresses my idea of democracy � whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."�President Abraham Lincoln

"It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused."-John Jay

"I know my duty and coming from a slave state as I do, no power on earth shall ever make me vote for the extension of slavery over one foot of territory now free. Never. No, sir, NO."-Senator Henry Clay,1850

"Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!"-Frederick Douglass

�Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.��Dalai Lama

"And so, it is important that we are able to forgive those we believe have wronged us even as we ask for forgiveness from people we have wronged. And I heard that first -- first in the civil rights movement. Love thy neighbor as thyself."-President Bill Clinton

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."-Booker T. Washington

"A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom."-F. A. Hayek

"As a Jewish person, I strongly believe that the only way to achieve peace and security for everyone is to dismantle the wall and the occupation. I have been appalled for a long time by the human rights violations carried out by the Israeli government, often in my name."-Jamie Spector, a Jewish-American protesting Israeli

"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it."-President James Madison

"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater."-George Washington Carver

"The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, You helped this happen."-Rev. Jerry Falwell commenting to Pat Robertson about 9-11

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."--President John F. Kennedy

�The people in Rumsfeld's office and in Wolfowitz's operation cherry-picked intelligence to select the intelligence to support their views. They never did the due diligence on the intelligence that professional intelligence analysts are trained to do. [The OSP] would go through the intelligence reports including the ones that the CIA was throwing out. They stitched it together they would send it out, send it over to Cheney. All the stuff that a professional would have thrown out. As soon as 9/11 happened people like Rumsfeld saw it was opportunity. During that first week after September 11, the decision was made.�;�I realized with almost a sharp physical pain that (Defense Secretary) Rumsfeld and (Dep Secretary of Defense) Wolfowitz were going to try to take advantage of this national tragedy to promote their agenda about Iraq. Since the beginning of the administration, indeed well before, they had been pressing for a war with Iraq."--counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke

(To a disabled Vietnam veteran)"People like you caused us to lose that war."-Ann Coulter

"We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why. I truly believe that we made an error not of values and intentions, but of judgment and capabilities."--Robert S. McNamara

"We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children."-Senator John F. Kerry

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just as long as I'm the dictator."-President George W. Bush

"Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today."-Gandhi

"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."-Alexis de Tocqueville

"The more successful our foreign policy, the more leverage America will have in the world. Thus, the more likely that future historians will look back on the twenty-first century United States as an empire as well as a republic, however different from that of Rome and every other empire throughout history. For as the decades and the centuries march on, and the United States has had a hundred presidents, or 150 even, instead of forty-three, and they appear in long lists like the rulers of bygone empires - Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman - the comparison with antiquity may grow rather than diminish. Rome, in particular, is a model for hegemonic power, using various means to encourage a modicum of order in a disorderly world."--Robert Kaplan

"Once upon a time, the American Founders, as well as certain of their European counterparts, believed in the importance of having a "fundamental law" superior to the rulers and ruled alike. The Founders intended the Constitution to be such a fundamental law, and designed it to be both easy to interpret and difficult to change. The president, far from having the sweeping executive prerogative of a monarch, was limited to the few well-defined tasks enumerated in the Constitution. America�s political leaders, and an overwhelming majority of the citizenry, once understood this."-Steve Bonta

"If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."-Noah Webster

"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war... That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."-Hitler's designated successor Hermann Goering

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."--Cicero

"Neither the wisest Constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt."--Samuel Adams

�Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout the land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.��President Abraham Lincoln

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."-Ann Coulter

"If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."-Robert S. McNamara

"I decided that bloggers were just a bunch of losers with no audience and no credibility who sat around their living rooms in pajamas all day hatching crackpot theories that never pan out."-Ann Coulter

"There is no such thing as a free press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who would dare to write his honest opinion. The business of the journalist is to destroy truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell himself, his country, and his race, for his daily bread. We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks; they pull our strings, we dance; our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are the property of these men. We are intellectual prostitutes."-John Swinton

"They were gonna make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their fuckin' army anymore."-from APOCALYPSE NOW

�Get the fuck out of here!�- Lars Ulrich