"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
-Albert Einstein

"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."
-Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire

One of my personal favorites:

"Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."
-Sun Tzu

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
-William James

"Wow, I can post in here?"

-DnrgMse

"Yes, you're welcome to."
-Feenix566

another personal favorite:

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
-Bruce Feirstein

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-Galileo Galilei

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"America needs fewer laws, not more prisons."
–James Bovard

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

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Here's another great one I just found:

"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."
-Kathleen Norris



Sorry for posting two quotes in one day :shrug:

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
-Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

does anybody even read this thread?

Yes. :nice:

Cool. Then I'll keep posting them :)

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
-Unknown

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-Robert Anthony

:lol:

Good one! :cool:

"Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." -William Allen White

"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
-Milton Friedman

"I'm so embarrased. I wish everyone else was dead." -Bender from Futurama

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul."
– George Bernard Shaw

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." ~Katherine Hepburn

I was just reading some quotes on marriage, so I thought I would make a contribution. I hope you don't mind.

I don't mind a bit :D

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
–Thomas B. Reed (1886)

"The conundrum is I'm bad at conversation, but I'm good at sex." -Anon

(If the responsible party wants to own up, that's on them.) :|

"The conundrum is I'm bad at conversation, but I'm good at sex." -Anon

(If the responsible party wants to own up, that's on them.) :|


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"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny in government."
–Thomas Jefferson

"When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny."
–Thomas Jefferson


Thomas Jefferson would probably be on the no-fly list if he were alive today.

Thomas Jefferson would probably be on the no-fly list if he were alive today.
Yeah, but he made one hell of a beer, if the documentation is to believed. :)

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 morally treasonable to the American public.
-Pres. Theodore Roosevelt

"The majority falls prey to the delusion — popular in some circles — that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth — born of experience — is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people… A revolt by Nat Turner and a few dozen other armed blacks could be put down without much difficulty; one by four million armed blacks would have meant big trouble. All too many of the other great tragedies of history — Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. … If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.”
–Kozinski, Circuit Judge, dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc in Silveira v. Lockyer