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Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
—Mark Twain

A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention.
—Henry David Thoreau

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
—Albert Einstein

You're not an alcoholic, you're a college student.
—Anonymous

No country run by 2,000 cousins can be called "stable."
—Sen. Claiborne Pell, on Saudi Arabia

Most hierarchies were established by men who now monopolize the upper levels, thus depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities to achieve incompetence.
—Laurence J. Peter

If Apple ever has trouble making it as a corporation, it might consider applying for tax-exempt status as a religion.
—Philip Schrodt

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
—George Bernard Shaw

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger

World War II was the last government program that really worked.
—George Will

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the important thing.
—Oscar Wilde

We believe that Americans should have the right to own guns because traditionally justice has always come from the ballot box, the jury box, but, if these failed, the cartridge box.
—Rep. Steve Symms

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
—Georges Clemenceau

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
—Prince Otto von Bismark

Vote early and vote often.
—Al Capone

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
—Prince Charles, of Wales

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
—Woody Allen

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
—Bertrand Russell

We should declare warn North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it, and still be home by Christmas.
—Ronald Reagan, 1966

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
—Plato

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
—Aaron Burr

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
—James Fenimore Cooper

I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat.
—Will Rogers

Television news is to journalism as bumper stickers are to philosophy.
—Richard Nixon

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