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Today's quote

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
    --Henry David Thoreau

Today's aphorists quote

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
    --Benjamin Franklin

Today's Jazz quote

We never play anything the same way once.
    --Shelly Manne

Today's funny quote

I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it.
    --Steven Wright

Today's philosophers quote

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
    --Bertrand Russell

Today's witty quote

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
    --Oscar Wilde

Quotes for Independence Day

It has long been my opinion... that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the Constitution of our Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body ... working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.
    --Thomas Jefferson 

God helps them that themselves.
    --Benjamin Franklin 

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
    --James Madison 

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
    --Alexander Hamilton 

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
    --Thomas Paine 

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
    --Benjamin Franklin 

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
    --Thomas Jefferson 

No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.
    --Thomas Jefferson 

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
    --Benjamin Franklin 

A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor.
    --Benjamin Franklin