$100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.\n-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
1st graffitiist: QUESTION AUTHORITY! 2nd graffitiist: Why?
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.\n-- Mahatma Gandhi
A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon it adds up to real money.\n-- Sen. Everett Dirksen, on the U.S. defense budget
A billion seconds ago Harry Truman was president. A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ. A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth. A billion dollars ago was late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Treasury.
A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of everything before he destroys it.
A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.\n-- Bill Vaughan
A Difficulty for Every Solution.\n-- Motto of the Federal Civil Service
A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.\n-- Caskie Stinnett, "Out of the Red"
A diplomat's life consists of three things: protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.\n-- Adlai Stevenson
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.\n-- Winston Churchill
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.\n-- Adlai Stevenson
A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding ducks.\n-- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.\n-- Barry Goldwater
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.\n-- B. Franklin
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.\n-- Russell Baker
A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.
A long memory is the most subversive idea in America.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.\n-- Alexander Hamilton
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
A penny saved is a penny taxed.
A penny saved kills your career in government.
A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence.\n-- Jean Paul Sartre
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.\n-- Sir Winston Churchill, 1952
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.\n-- Colton
A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbour notice it.\n-- Trygve Lie
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.\n-- Ramsey Clark
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.\n-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831
A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.\n-- Harry S. Truman
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.\n-- O'Henry
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.\n-- Daniel Webster
Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain.  He died in Washington, D.C.
"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement."\n-- Norman Thomas
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.\n-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre
Alea iacta est.\n[The die is cast]\n-- Gaius Julius Caesar
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.\n-- The Best of Will Rogers
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.\n-- H. L. Mencken
All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.\n-- Gaius Julius Caesar, quoted in "The Conspiracy of Catiline", by Sallust
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.\n-- Chou En Lai
All kings is mostly rapscallions.\n--Mark Twain
All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.\n-- Vic Gold
All people are born alike -- except Republicans and Democrats.\n-- Groucho Marx
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.\n-- Jim Fiebig
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.\n-- Francois Fenelon
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.\n-- John O'Hara
America: born free and taxed to death.
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.\n-- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639
An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the president but is always polite to traffic cops.
An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.\n-- W. Churchill
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.\n-- Simon Cameron There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians.  When bought they stay bought. -- Bill Moyers
Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
"...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a courtesy detail."
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, for if you hit a man with a plowshare, he's going to know he's been hit.
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.\n-- Pyrrhus
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.\n-- Aesop
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organising and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.\n-- David Broder
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.\n-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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.\n-- Oscar Wilde, "Intentions"
Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.\n-- G.J. Danton
Ban the bomb.  Save the world for conventional warfare.
Be it our wealth, our jobs, or even our homes; nothing is safe while the legislature is in session.
Bedfellows make strange politicians.
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.\n-- Herbert Hoover
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre!\n[It is magnificent, but it is not war]\n-- Pierre Bosquet, witnessing the charge of the Light Brigade
"Cable is not a luxury, since many areas have poor TV reception."\n-- The mayor of Tucson, Arizona, 1989
Canada Post doesn't really charge 32 cents for a stamp.  It's 2 cents for postage and 30 cents for storage.\n-- Gerald Regan, Cabinet Minister, 12/31/83 Financial Post
Census Taker to Housewife|Did you ever have the measles, and, if so, how many?
Concerning the war in Vietnam, Senator George Aiken of Vermount noted in January, 1966, "I'm not very keen for doves or hawks.  I think we need more owls."\n-- Bill Adler, "The Washington Wits"
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Corruption is not the #1 priority of the Police Commissioner.  His job is to enforce the law and fight crime.\n-- P.B.A. President E. J. Kiernan
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.\n-- Alfred E. Newman
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity.  It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation."\n-- Johnny Hart
Demand the establishment of the government in its rightful home at Disneyland.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors.\n-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.\n-- George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.\n-- Senator Soaper
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.\n-- G.B. Shaw
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.\n-- Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is good.  I say this because other systems are worse.\n-- Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.\n-- Arman de Caillavet, 1913
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.\n-- E. B. White
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.\n-- Winston Churchill
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.\n-- Oscar Wilde
Demographic polls show that you have lost credibility across the board. Especially with those 14 year-old Valley girls.
Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century.  Politics is about surviving until Friday afternoon.\n-- Sir Humphrey Appleby
Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.\n-- Daniele Vare
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.\n-- Wynn Catlin
Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.\n-- Balfour
Disclose classified information only when a NEED TO KNOW exists.
Don't be humble ... you're not that great.\n-- Golda Meir
Don't mind him; politicians always sound like that.
Don't steal... the IRS hates competition!
Don't suspect your friends -- turn them in!\n-- "Brazil"
Don't talk to me about naval tradition.  It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.\n-- Winston Churchill
Don't vote -- it only encourages them!
Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has been discontinued.
Each person has the right to take part in the management of public affairs in his country, provided he has prior experience, a will to succeed, a university degree, influential parents, good looks, a curriculum vitae, two 3x4 snapshots, and a good tax record.
Each person has the right to take the subway.
Even though they raised the rate for first class mail in the United States we really shouldn't complain -- it's still only two cents a day.\n[and getting better!  Soon it'll be down to a penny a day!]
Ever wonder if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
Every country has the government it deserves.\n-- Joseph De Maistre
Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.\n-- Barry Goldwater
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.\n-- George Santayana
Fay: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. Truscott: That is a mistake which has been rectified.\n-- Joe Orton, "Loot"
Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing.\n-- H.S. Thompson
First rule of public speaking.\nFirst, tell 'em what you're goin' to tell 'em;\nthen tell 'em;\nthen tell 'em what you've tole 'em.
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.\n-- Harlan Ellison
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!\n-- G.B. Shaw
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.\n-- Charles Curtis, "A Commonplace Book"
Free Speech Is The Right To Shout 'Theater' In A Crowded Fire.\n-- A Yippie Proverb
Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.
Freedom is nothing else but the chance to do better.\n-- Camus
Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace.\n-- George Orwell
Freedom of the press is for those who happen to own one.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.\n-- Kris Kristofferson, "Me and Bobby McGee"
"... gentlemen do not read each other's mail."\n-- Secretary of State Henry Stimson, on closing down the Black Chamber, the precursor to the National Security Agency.
George Orwell 1984.  Northwestern 0.\n-- Chicago Reader 10/15/82
George Orwell was an optimist.
George Washington was first in war, first in peace -- and the first to have his birthday juggled to make a long weekend.\n-- Ashley Cooper
Give all orders verbally.  Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File".
"Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war."\n-- Napoleon
Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.\n-- P.J. O'Rourke
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.\n-- Austin O'Malley
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
Got a complaint about the Internal Revenue Service? Call the convenient toll-free "IRS Taxpayer Complaint Hot Line Number":\n1-800-AUDITME
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.  Don't overdo it.\n-- Lao Tsu
Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.\n-- John Updike, "Couples"
Government lies, and newspapers lie, but in a democracy they are different lies.
Government spending?  I don't know what it's all about.  I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.\n-- Will Rogers
Great Moments in History: #3 August 27, 1949:\nA Hall of Fame opened to honor outstanding members of the\nWomen's Air Corp.  It was a WAC's Museum.
Grub first, then ethics.\n-- Bertolt Brecht
Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender.  You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want.\n-- Tobias Smollet
Have you noticed the way people's intelligence capabilities decline sharply the minute they start waving guns around?\n-- Dr. Who
He didn't run for reelection.  "Politics brings you into contact with all the people you'd give anything to avoid," he said. "I'm staying home."\n-- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegone Days"
He is the best of men who dislikes power.\n-- Mohammed
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
He thinks the Gettysburg Address is where Lincoln lived.\n-- Wanda, "A Fish Called Wanda"
He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.\n-- William S. Paley, chairman of CBS
He who renders warfare fatal to all engaged in it will be the greatest benefactor the world has yet known.\n-- Sir Richard Burton
He who slings mud generally loses ground.\n-- Adlai Stevenson
He's just a politician trying to save both his faces...
Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.  From where the sun now stands I Will Fight No More Forever.\n-- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
Here comes the orator, with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
History is on our side (as long as we can control the historians).
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on.\n-- Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxims"
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.\n-- Abba Eban
How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese?\n-- Charles de Gaulle
How is the world ruled, and how do wars start?  Diplomats tell lies to journalists, and they believe what they read.\n-- Karl Kraus, "Aphorisms and More Aphorisms"
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend than be one.\n-- Clarence Darrow
I am convinced that the truest act of courage is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice.  To be a man is to suffer for others.\n-- Cesar Chavez
I am not a politician and my other habits are also good.\n-- A. Ward
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.\n-- Jay Gould
I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business.  I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.\n-- The Best of Will Rogers
"I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating."\n-- Boss Tweed
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.\n-- Victor Hugo
I DON'T THINK I'M ALONE when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.\n-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.\n-- Judge Roy Bean, finding a pistol and $40 on a man he'd just shot.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.\n-- Augustus Caesar
I have a dream.  I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.\n-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.\n-- Artemus Ward
