"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the
seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength
in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be; we hasll
fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight
in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall
never surrender." --Winston Churchill

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now, I'm beginning to believe it."
--Clarence Darrow

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." --Winston Churchill

"Nearly all men[and women] can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power." --Abraham Lincoln

"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny
of the republican model of government, are staked on the experiment entrusted
to the hands of the American people." --George Washington

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." --George Washington

"11/5/96: Election Day: This is the day when Clinton and Gore will be voted out of office." --Printed on this week of my Clinton Countdown calendar, which I got two years ago and which is getting more and more amusing as the months progress.

"Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock." --Anonymous

"Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty." --Unknown

"When we let freedom ring, whem we let it ring from every
village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able
to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men,
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands
and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free
at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" --Martin Luther King, Jr.

"History is not made up of the few acts of the great, but the many acts of the small."  --Michael Yost

"Heads of state who ride and wrangle, who look at your face from more than one angle, can cut you from their bloated budgets like sharpened knives through Chicken Mcnuggets." --Cake, "Nugget"

"You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world." --The Beatles, "Revolution."

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." --Ben Franklin

"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public
that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who
question that status."
 --David Mamet

"With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our
litany,  are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's
exalted purpose  and inspiring way of life?"
         --Adlai Stevenson

"I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know
when they're being taped."
      --Richard Nixon, former President and Prince of Irony

"Let's get one thing straight. The police are not here to create
disorder. They are here to preserve disorder."
              Chicago Mayor Richard Daley

 "A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize
the rights which God has given them connot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that
tyranny begins."
 --Benjamin Franklin

"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."
 --English proverb
 
"Follow me if I advance!  Kill me if I retreat!  Avenge me if I die!"
 --Ngo Dinh Diem

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even
where there are no rivers."
     --Nikita Khrushchev

"Men, in their hearts, can no more do without being controlled than they can live without food, drink, and sleep."
        -Charles DeGaulle

"Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of
advertising."
     --Calvin Coolidge

"Be sure to include tranquilizers to ease the strain and monotony of
life in a fallout shelter. A bottle of 100 should be sufficient for a family of four. Tranquilizers
are not a narcotic, and are not habit-forming."
 --Civil defense film of the 1950's.

"When not close enough to be killed, the atomic bomb is one of the most
beautiful sights in the world."
 --Army information film of the 1950's

"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."
    --Harry S Truman
 
"Never trust a man unless you've got his pecker in your pocket."
    --Lyndon B. Johnson.
 
"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."
    --John F. Kennedy

"Don't need no superheroes/ don't need no movie stars
Don't need no politicians/ with big black shiny cars
Don't need no preacher whose church is my T.V."
 --Savatage, "Follow Me" (Edge of Thorns)

"It has always been the privilege of children and half-wits to point out
that the emperor has no clothes.  But the half-wit remains a half-wit,
and the emperor an emperor."
    --Morpheus, "Sandman:  The Kindly Ones"

"My mama always told me - 'if you've got something to say, say it.  If
people don't like it, to hell with 'em."
    --The inimitable (and late) Barry Goldwater