QUOTABLE QUOTES
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
---Benjamin Franklin
"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my
child may have peace."
---Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
---General Douglas MacArthur
"Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can
make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people
remember is the one that gets past you. Fighting terrorism
is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant
saves but the only shot that people remember is the one
that gets past you."
---Paul Wilkinson
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I
have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance
to the first."
---Ronald Reagan
"No one ever went broke
underestimating the taste of the American public."
---HL
Mencken
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all
power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and
duty to be at all times armed."
---Thomas Jefferson to John
Cartwright, 1824.
"Firmness in decision is often merely
a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the
same thing out twice."
---HL Mencken
"[It is] the rudest thing . . . a man throwing his smoke into
the face of women and children as they pass up and down
the street. Have you a right to throw in my mouth what you
puff out of yours? That foul smoke and breath! And you
would like to be called a gentleman."
---Carry A. Nation March 23, 1901
"Show me first the graveyards of a country and I will tell
you the true character of the people."
---Benjamin Franklin
"Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one."
---W. C. Fields