Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2003/11/17/last_word.php
Monday, November 17, 2003
If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist... If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe. Don't let America's universities continue to serve as incubators for this rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism.
—Charlton Heston
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
—Alexander Hamilton
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
—William F. Buckley, Jr.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
—Sophocles
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
—Milton Friedman
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
—Joe Theismann
Little girl, who ever heard of Shakespeare's daughter?
—William Faulkner
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while
—Kin Hubbard
Not all who wander are lost.
—J.R.R. Tolkien
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
—Thomas Jefferson
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
—Soren Kierkegaard
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
—Anatole France
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
—Albert Einstein
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
—Jean Kerr
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
—Richard M. Nixon
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes Benz 380SL convertible.
—P.J. O'Rourke
Wesley Clark has a handshake like a woman.
—Presidential candidate Robert Haines
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
—John Stuart Mill
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
—Samuel Johnson
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
—Alfred North Whitehead
It is certainly very hard to write about sex in England without making it unattractive.
—Edmund Wilson
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
—Andrew Jackson
If you want to retire young and retire rich, and you don't have much money, education, or experience, begin using your brain.
—Robert Kiyosaki
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
—Abraham Lincoln
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
—Ronald Reagan