Vaclav Havel

"The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him."

--Vaclav Havel
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George Washington

"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors."

--George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789

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George Mason

"Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens."

--George Mason

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James Madison

"The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security."

--James Madison, Federalist No. 45, 1788

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H. L. Mencken

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."

--H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

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Rush Limbaugh

"I love polar bears, too....when they're rugs!

--Rush Limbaugh
31 October 2011

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John Stuart Mill

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

--John Stuart Mill

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James Madison

"[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

--James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787

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James Wilson

"It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness."

--James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791

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Oscar Wilde

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

--Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything."

--Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything."

--Oscar Wilde

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Thomas Paine

"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight."

--Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

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Sam Houston

"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."

--Sam Houston

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John Adams

"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

--John Adams, letter to John Taylor, 1814

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Thomas Paine

"Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries; tis time to part."

--Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

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