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Today's quote
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
--Albert Einstein
Today's aphorists quote
There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn.
--Chinese Proverb
Today's Jazz quote
Sometimes Id think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
--John Coltrane
Today's funny quote
The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
--Lily Tomlin
Today's philosophers quote
All wars are fought for money.
--Socrates
Today's witty quote
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
--Oscar Wilde
Quotes on politics for "Talking Heads Sunday"
This is the first time I've ever seen the Executive Branch of the Government take the Fifth Amendment.
--Senator Joseph McCarthy 
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
--Thomas Jefferson
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
--Anonymous
Since the Berlin Wall fell, the U.S. government has saved hundreds of billions of dollars in reduced defense allocations. In purely economic terms, economist Larry Lindsey says, Reagan's military buildup produced a "fantastic payoff"; it was the best investment the U.S. government ever made.
--Dinesh D'Souza
Sin cannot be thrown away, like dynamite, to explode itself; its temptations have to be stilled by the power of your soul within.
--Paramahansa Yogananda
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.
--Lord Boyd-orr
Eats first
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with...
--Gerard K. O'Neill
...if you smoke filterless cigarettes and receive checks from the government for not working, you are more likely to believe that "reasons" and "excuses" are the same thing.
--Jonah Goldberg
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.
--Cornelius Lanczos
We may not like doctors, but at least they doctor. Bankers are not ever popular but at least they bank. Policeman police and undertakers take under. But lawyers do not give us law. We receive not the gladsome light of jurisprudence, but rather precedents, objections, appeals, stays, filings and forms, motions and counter-motions, all at $250 an hour.
--Nolo News
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
--Albert Einstein
If the majority favors despotism, it is no longer a free people, whether the form of the government has already changed or not.
--Harry Jaffa
...in the long run the aggregate of decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is less likely to do harm than the centralized decisions of a government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster.
--John Cowperthwaite
That is the crux of modern conservatism -- government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.
--George F. Will
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
--Anthony Gregory
