The time for action is past!  Now is the time for senseless bickering.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.\n-- Franklin Adams
The two oldest professions in the world have been ruined by amateurs.\n-- G.B. Shaw
The two party system ... is a triumph of the dialectic.  It showed that two could be one and one could be two and had probably been fabricated by Hegel for the American market on a subcontract from General Dynamics.\n-- I.F. Stone
The universe is ruled by letting things take their course.  It cannot be ruled by interfering.\n-- Chinese proverb
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.  Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.\n-- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil"
"The wages of sin are death; but after they're done taking out taxes, it's just a tired feeling:"
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.\n-- Emo Philips
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.\n-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
There appears to be irrefutable evidence that the mere fact of overcrowding induces violence.\n-- Harvey Wheeler
There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true.\n-- Winston Churchill
There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.\n-- The Duke of Wellington
There are only two things in this world that I am sure of, death and taxes, and we just might do something about death one of these days.\n-- shades
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better"\n-- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"
There but for the grace of God, goes God.\n-- Winston Churchill, speaking of Sir Stafford Cripps.
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.\n-- Ralph Nader
There cannot be a crisis next week.  My schedule is already full.\n-- Henry Kissinger
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.\n-- Anatole France
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.\n-- Arthur C. Clarke
There is Jackson standing like a stone wall.  Let us determine to die, and we will conquer.  Follow me.\n-- General Barnard E. Bee (CSA)
There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.\n-- Benjamin Disraeli, "Vivian Grey"
There is no education that is not political.  An apolitical education is also political because it is purposely isolating.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.\n-- G.B. Shaw
There is no security on this earth.  There is only opportunity.\n-- General Douglas MacArthur
There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family.  But he can't make a living for them *and* his government, too, the way his government is living.  What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.\n-- The Best of Will Rogers
There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.\n-- Mortimer Caplan
There is only one way to kill capitalism -- by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.\n-- Karl Marx
There is perhaps in every thing of any consequence, secret history, which it would be amusing to know, could we have it authentically communicated.\n-- James Boswell
There never was a good war or a bad peace.\n-- B. Franklin
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.\n-- Will Rogers
There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.\n-- Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner
They call them "squares" because it's the most complicated shape they can deal with.
"They make a desert and call it peace."\n-- Tacitus (55?-120?)
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
They use different words for things in America. For instance they say elevator and we say lift. They say drapes and we say curtains. They say president and we say brain damaged git.\n-- Alexie Sayle
They will only cause the lower classes to move about needlessly.\n-- The Duke of Wellington, on early steam railroads.
They're giving bank robbing a bad name.\n-- John Dillinger, on Bonnie and Clyde
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.\n-- G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday"
This is a country where people are free to practice their religion, regardless of race, creed, color, obesity, or number of dangling keys...
"Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics."\n-- French Proverb
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.\n-- Bertolt Brecht, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love.  The poor know that it is money.\n-- Gerald Brenan
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.  They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.\n-- Frederick Douglass
To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star.  As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.\n-- Confucius
To make tax forms true they should read "Income Owed Us" and "Incommode You".
To say you got a vote of confidence would be to say you needed a vote of confidence.\n-- Andrew Young
To think contrary to one's era is heroism.  But to speak against it is madness.\n-- Eugene Ionesco
To use violence is to already be defeated.\n-- Chinese proverb
Today is a good day to bribe a high-ranking public official.
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.\n-- Governor Jerry Brown
Travel important today;  Internal Revenue men arrive tomorrow.
Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last.\n-- Charles DeGaulle
True leadership is the art of changing a group from what it is to what it ought to be.\n-- Virginia Allan
"Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex." (Where there is no police, there is no speed limit.)\n-- Roman Law, trans. Petr Beckmann (1971)
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.\n-- Henry David Thoreau
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.\n-- Robert D. Sprecht, Rand Corp.
Under capitalism, man exploits man.  Under communism, it's just the opposite.\n-- J.K. Galbraith
Under every stone lurks a politician.\n-- Aristophanes
Unknown person(s) stole the American flag from its pole in Etra Park sometime between 3pm Jan 17 and 11:30 am Jan 20.  The flag is described as red, white and blue, having 50 stars and was valued at $40.\n-- Windsor-Heights Herald "Police Blotter", Jan 28, 1987
Unquestionably, there is progress.  The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.\n-- H. L. Mencken
Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.\n-- Mel Brooks, "The Listener"
Veni, vidi, vici.\n[I came, I saw, I conquered].\n-- Gaius Julius Caesar
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all.  The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\n-- Herodotus
Victory uber allies!
"Violence accomplishes nothing."  What a contemptible lie!  Raw, naked violence has settled more issues throughout history than any other method ever employed.  Perhaps the city fathers of Carthage could debate the issue, with Hitler and Alexander as judges?
Violence is a sword that has no handle -- you have to hold the blade.
Violence is molding.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.\n-- Salvor Hardin
Vote anarchist.
War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.\n-- Charles Edward Montague
War is an equal opportunity destroyer.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.\n-- Desiderius Erasmus
War is like love, it always finds a way.\n-- Bertolt Brecht, "Mother Courage"
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.\n-- Clemenceau
War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Ketchup is a vegetable.
War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.\n-- Anacreon
[Washington, D.C.] is the home of... taste for the people -- the big, the bland and the banal.\n-- Ada Louise Huxtable
Washington, D.C: Fifty square miles almost completely surrounded by reality.
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.\n-- A. Lincoln
We are all born equal... just some of us are more equal than others.
We are all worms.  But I do believe I am a glowworm.\n-- Winston Churchill
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.\n-- Calvin Coolidge
We have not inherited the earth from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children.
... we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.\n-- Joseph Wood Krutch
We should be glad we're living in the time that we are.  If any of us had been born into a more enlightened age, I'm sure we would have immediately been taken out and shot.\n-- Strange de Jim
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.\n-- John Locke
We should have a Vollyballocracy.  We elect a six-pack of presidents. Each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate.\n-- Dennis Miller
We the unwilling, led by the ungrateful, are doing the impossible. We've done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do something with nothing.
We totally deny the allegations, and we're trying to identify the allegators.
We tried to close Ohio's borders and ran into a Constitutional problem. There's a provision in the Constitution that says you can't close your borders to interstate commerce, and garbage is a form of interstate commerce.\n-- Ohio Lt. Governor Paul Leonard
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.\n-- Dave Barry
Well, he didn't know what to do, so he decided to look at the government, to see what they did, and scale it down and run his life that way.\n-- Laurie Anderson
What a strange game.  The only winning move is not to play.\n-- WOP, "War Games"
"What George Washington did for us was to throw out the British, so that we wouldn't have a fat, insensitive government running our country. Nice try anyway, George."\n-- D.J. on KSFO/KYA
What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility.
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?\n-- Bertold Brecht
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
What orators lack in depth they make up in length.
What we need is either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
What's a cult?  It just means not enough people to make a minority.\n-- Robert Altman
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.\n-- Thomas Jefferson
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away.  It is time to go elsewhere.  The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.\n-- R.A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes.  The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.\n-- Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours."\n-- Vine Deloria, Jr.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.\n-- Brendan Behan
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him.  All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.\n-- H.L. Mencken, "Minority Report"
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President.  Now I'm beginning to believe it.\n-- Clarence Darrow
When in doubt, do what the President does -- guess.
When neither their poverty nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.\n-- Niccolo Machiavelli
When smashing monuments, save the pedstals -- they always come in handy.\n-- Stanislaw J. Lem, "Unkempt Thoughts"
When some people decide it's time for everyone to make big changes, it means that they want you to change first.
When taxes are due, Americans tend to feel quite bled-white and blue.
When the government bureau's remedies don't match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy.
When the revolution comes, count your change.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.\n-- Thomas Paine
When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't find anyone.  Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains, two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge.  Never in the history of war have so few been led by so many.\n-- General James Gavin
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.\n-- Norm Crosby
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.\n-- Harry Truman
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.\n-- Winston Churchill, on formal declarations of war
When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong.
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.\n-- Otto Von Bismarck
When you're in command, command.\n-- Admiral Nimitz
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.\n-- Abraham Lincoln
Where the system is concerned, you're not allowed to ask "Why?".
Where you stand depends on where you sit.\n-- Rufus Miles, HEW
Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we use the ones we have?
Why can't you be a non-conformist like everyone else?
Will Rogers, having paid too much income tax one year, tried in vain to claim a rebate.  His numerous letters and queries remained unanswered.  Eventually the form for the next year's return arrived.  In the section marked "DEDUCTIONS," Rogers listed: "Bad debt, US Government\n-- $40,000."
... with liberty and justice for all ... who can afford it.
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter.\n-- William Lloyd Garrison
Workers of the world, arise!  You have nothing to lose but your chairs.
World War Three can be averted by adherence to a strictly enforced dress code!
"Wrong," said Renner.\n"The tactful way," Rod said quietly, "the polite way to disagree with the Senator would be to say, `That turns out not to be the case.'"
You can have peace.  Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.\n-- Lazarus Long
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.\n-- Aristophanes
You roll my log, and I will roll yours.\n-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.\n-- Henrik Ibsen
I do not patronize poor, ill educated, or disenfranchised people by exempting them from the same critical examination I feel free to direct toward the rest of society, however much I might champion the same minority or disadvantaged group in the forums of that society.\n-- James Moffitt
As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions.\n-- Elizabeth Fee
And they mainly want to teach them not to question, not to imagine, but to be obedient and behave well so that they can hold them forever as children to their bosom as the second millennium lurches toward its panicky close.\n-- Jerome Stern
I've no regrets. I was sincere in everything I said.\n-- Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, annoucing his new book
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.\n-- Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. "Why Freedom?" The last essays of George Bernanos (1955)
