A "quote" for all occasions..(did I spell that right?)

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
-- Ayn Rand

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
-- Henry David Thoreau

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
-- Robert Heinlein

Beware of the man of one book.
-- Thomas Aquinas

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
-- Herman Melville

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H.L. Mencken

Dare to be wrong and to dream.
-- Friedrich von Schiller

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
-- Robert Heinlein

Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
-- Remy de Gourmont

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
--Ayn Rand

The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
-- Peter Brimelow

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?"
-- Joseph Henry Jackson

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
--Dwight Eisenhower

A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
--Plato

Thinking men cannot be ruled.
--Ayn Rand

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
-- William Shakespeare

For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
-- Gore Vidal

These presidential ninnies should stick to throwing out baseballs and leave the important matters to serious people.
--Gore Vidal

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
--Voltaire

And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter.
--Thomas Jefferson

The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.
--Eric Hoffer

Force and mind are opposites.
--Ayn Rand

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
--Voltaire

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
-- Felix Morley

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
-- Henry David Thoreau

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
- Aristotle

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
- Hillel

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Edward Abbey

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
- Rose Wilder Lane

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
- H.L. Mencken

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.
- H.L. Mencken

The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H.L. Mencken

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.
- P.J. O'Rourke

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
- P.J. O'Rourke

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.
- Woodrow Wilson

A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
- Milton Friedman

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
- Milton Friedman

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
- Graham Greene

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.
- H.L. Mencken

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
- Julian Simon

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
- Thomas Sowell

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Lord Acton

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
- Thomas Jefferson

We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.
- Rudolph Rummel

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
- Sallust

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
-- Unknown

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
-- Holden Caulfield

I'd never yell 'Good Luck!' at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
-- Holden Caulfield

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
-- Wilhelm Steckel

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.
-- Holden Caulfield

That's the whole trouble, You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose. Try it sometime. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.
-- Holden Caulfield

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.
-- Holden Caulfield

He told us we should always pray to God - talk to Him and all - whenever we were. He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving in his car. That killed me. I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs.
-- Holden Caulfield